I love my Pennsylvania home until the leaves are off the trees and it gets dark at 5:30 and when walking the dog requires layers and resolve to deal with the cold. Yeah I hunker down by the gas stove reading - letting the heat warm up these old bones but I am tired winters long bleak cold. Others may love the winter, I say good for them I hate it.
Where to go?
1. Sister and a Sister-in-law in Florida. Polar opposite of Pennsylvania winter - brutal. I am not sure about those man made lake developments. All that air conditioning (life in a fridge) Too sterile for me. The villages? Too much of anything (retirees) can't be good
2. North Carolina? Those mountains get nice and cool at night even in the summer. I think there is also a lake region that might fill my need to fish. I think I want other retirees nearby. I don't want a depressed area? I do like the though of a bit of the country... Limited traffic crowds etc but the wife NEEDs stores within a 1/2 -1 hour.
I am struggling with this ...
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Where to go?
1. Sister and a Sister-in-law in Florida. Polar opposite of Pennsylvania winter - brutal. I am not sure about those man made lake developments. All that air conditioning (life in a fridge) Too sterile for me. The villages? Too much of anything (retirees) can't be good
2. North Carolina? Those mountains get nice and cool at night even in the summer. I think there is also a lake region that might fill my need to fish. I think I want other retirees nearby. I don't want a depressed area? I do like the though of a bit of the country... Limited traffic crowds etc but the wife NEEDs stores within a 1/2 -1 hour.
I am struggling with this ...
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