I am wondering some thoughts on this. (US)
We’ve lived in this house for 6 years. It’s a great place, but we always figured we’d probably move again at some point. Now, we have a decent amount of stuff (mostly due to my 1000’s of hobbies, we like to do a lot of shit because life should be fun) so I really hate moving.
My thought is-hey, if we end up moving, lets just move really far away. Most of our families will be gone in a few years and there’s not really a reason to stay here. I could probably give up a lot of my large items if it meant moving to a really interesting new country (thinking one of the Nordic countries, my grandparents were from there). Still, it would probably be 6 years before we would actually move.
Just wondering how crazy this really is. I think my SO feels like it’s a joke when I bring it up.
If you’re young and your parents aren’t old, it’s doable.
It’s also doable when you have siblings to take care of older parents. I know you say “Most of our families will be gone in a few years.” But what if in less than that time they need care?
Relocating back to where your elderly parents are, especially if you’re older can be a hassle. For example, if you are 50 years old and your parents are 75 years old, and they need a caretaker, you would need to relocate, and get a new job later in life (often at a pay decrease).
We dont plan to take care of aging parents. Mine are awful brainwashed maga who have their own family on their spouses other side and I try to talk with them little as possible. They dont care about us.
So’s parents have other siblings to take care of them just fine and they are rich.
They may not have parents who need care. The parents could be dead, could have their own long-term care plans, could have been bad enough people that their kids don’t plan to take care of them, etc. I wouldn’t just assume that somebody needs or wants to be near elderly family.
I didn’t mean to imply that they had elderly parents, I just meant that is something to consider if they did.