Food for thought at a perfect time. My husband and I moved here in July, after two years for building a house the way we wanted it and not the way the contractor did, and after visiting yearly since 1996 (sometimes twice a year). I am ready to say why.
It's different, but still great. Sitting in my great living room, looking out the window at ocean, palms and sand; listening to my beloved pets who also moved here...this is a place to be contented.
Contentment doesn't mean complacency, either. Contentment means staying happy even though things change, or need to change, and needing to make things change. It means appreciating the great gift that we have worked for to be here.
We still need to work, and my husband humps onto an airplane almost every week to work as a consultant all over the world. I am still looking for something to do here, and have offered myself to SAGA.
Why, also is about reasons for not living in the States. I wish I could put it diplomatically but I can't. It's expensive to live here. It is way more expensive in the States, and the carbon footprint there is almost immoral. Also, in the land of the free, we have red light cameras, speed cameras, sitting in the park cameras, and taxes that offer a middle aged baby-boomer no representation.
It also comes to people, which many have said. We looked around and found we care about more people here than anywhere else. And, whether they care about us or not we like them.
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