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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I gather you don’t live in Southern Cal (or another warm destination) or a cool city or vacation type place (say Tahoe as example).

While kids love their parents and want to see them, they are humans and don’t have much interest spending a week in Bakersfield (as an example) or Eureka or other places where no reasonable person would visit from across the country.

I suggest you consider renting a vacation place in a cool area that is easy to fly to and easy for you to drive.

I guarantee my kids would visit if I told them I rented a house in La Jolla or at Tahoe or equivalent.[/quote]

This!  My parents retired years ago and threatened to get a second home in an attractive location. Well, they never went through with their plan, and they still live in the same god-awful suburb I couldn’t wait to leave. They can’t wrap their heads around why DH and I don’t visit often. Um, we have limited vacation time and disposable income to actually enjoy our time off doing something other than eating sitting in their living room and sleeping in my childhood bedroom on a 30-year-old dusty bed for a week. I envy those with parents who retire to warm beach towns with good seafood. [/quote]

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