I lived in the same village for 31 years in 2 different houses and moved 170 miles to a more modern, easier to look after house in the smallest town in Wales with a smaller garden so more suitable for us as we get older. The bonus is our son and grandchildren are only 25mins away, the sea just 15mins, Snowdon 45mins and it has been like an eighteen month holiday so far. There is so much to discover, we have friends to stay, we have joined lots of groups in the town and made new friends. I had a bit of a wobble a couple of weeks after we moved as I missed my friends dropping in but now we are both so glad we moved and, I hate to say this, we rarely think of our old house and life there, though we loved it at the time and were very involved in village life. I think when the time to move on comes the brain adjusts.