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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Empty nesters who can afford it don’t move when their kids go to college because of:

1.  Needless guilt that their kids will be “sad” about it, which is ridiculous and so selfish of the kids.

2.  Fear of trying something new after many years of hunkering down in the same place.

3.  Inertia and laziness.

The problem is that, as another poster has noted, time is fleeting.  You do this, and at the blink of an eye another 10 years has gone by and you’re sitting in the same place living in the past as all of your memories grow old around you. There’s more of life than that.  You’re living without your kids for many more years than you’ll be living with them.  Get out there![/quote]

I don’t get responses like this. It presents as if people inherently don’t like where they live. We love our house and our neighborhood. Why would we feel the need to leave just because our kids are out of school? On top of the fact that we are still working, we have no reason to pack up and leave. Our kids don’t need us like they did so we can and do take more trips to places we enjoy vacationing. But we are nowhere near ready to sell our home that we love and leave an area we enjoy. [/quote]

DCUM posters are mostly unhappy. They assume others are like them.[/quote]

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