Moving... again
I knew it was inevitable, and actually I have been looking forward to it... just a bit. When we moved back to Illinois from South Dakota 12 years ago, it wasn't really because we wanted to, but to help take care of our parents. Our sons were through school, so the timing was good, and DH was still at a hire-able age, so we knew it was the right thing to do. But finding a job and a location that would put us between the parent's locations proved to be a bit tricky... we ended up having to take what we could get. A Chicago suburb - however far out - was never a choice I would have made.... But the job paid well and the location was do-able if not ideal, so here we are. And here we have stayed far longer than I had expected to. As you age, jobs are harder to come by, and while our parents have all passed on a few years ago, DH has not found a job to move to, and he feels it is his age that causing him to be passed over. So he feels that staying here until he is retirement