My wife and I retired in 2015, about 7 years ago and for the first 5 years did an enormous amount of traveling... so much so that we got the traveling bug out of our systems. COVID hit and stopped our traveling for two years. It was COVID that helped us mentally curtail our desires to travel.
Our home that we purchased over 20 years ago has a full basement and an acre of land. We loved the space and took advantage of all the land we had. We put in a pool, deck, gazebo, hot tub, and had areas behind that area where we grew vegetables each summer.
After twenty years, we are tired of going up and down the stairs as well as taking care of the outside yard. While it only takes us a few of hours each week to take of our yard, but our 70 year old bodies do not respond well to that physical trauma on our bodies.
This week we found a house that is about the same size as our home but with no basement. Our yard reduces down from an acre to just a small plot that would take 30 minutes to mow. The outside yard is the biggest problem for our age along with the stairs, so we eliminated both concerns.
Fortunately, the house is in the same neighborhood so we are in the perfect community we want to be in.
The purchase of this new house was not contingent upon the sale of our current home, so we can take our time moving our stuff from one house to the other. Then when everything is moved, we will have a yard sale with the items we don't want to take. When that is done, we will put our house up for sale and see what happens.
Sometime between the middle of June and the middle of July, everything should be resolved...
Our last twenty years will not be as stressful worrying about taking care of a larger house...
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