[KBoater]

As an early retiree, I followed the advice of my mother who retired to Wolfeboro and then started another business there. She felt that winter in NH was harder as you get older and have problems walking on ice. This made her house bound on many days. She stilled loved NH but felt she was too old (85) to go south for the winter since she did not have an established base there.
When I retired 15 years ago, I chose to go to FL for the winter and establish a base there. I am most active in FL with many friends and do so much boating there that I do not feel the need to go out every day on Winnie. I do make trips on good days. I think I have “the best of both worlds”. Since I have lived in Wolfeboro a long time(40 years), I also have great friends here and love it is the summer.
Many of my friends in FL have 2 homes. When they retired, they sold their work home(not much to do in the Suburbs), bought in FL and kept their summer place to go to in the summer. They are from all over the country. It is interesting to realize that the lakes in the Midwest are used similar to Winnie.