I am living exactly where I always wanted to be
I grew up in Michigan and I am NOT a winter person. I travelled a bit, and once, when I was 17 I was passing through KY and stayed overnight - the next morning when I woke up and walked outside and looked at the beauty all around I decided this is where I wanted to live someday - took me quite a few years to get here
Luckily, I married a man with parents who were originally from KY, and he loved it here, too - so we decided when we retired, that was our last move to make.
We looked at property for three years trying to find the right one. We ended up buying a 25 acre hayfield w/woods and building our own farm, instead of choosing one of the "ready to move into" places that didn't quite suit us. We've been here for about a year and a half, now.
We're still building, and busier than we ever were when we had Jobs - but we've never been happier to live anywhere in our whole lives. I wake up every morning believing that I truly live in a National Park, the scenery is so lovely everywhere you go. The people are great, too - we have fantastic neighbors - and not too close neighbors - which was our main concern. Our closest neighbor is about a 1/4 mile away. We can see them and sometimes late at night we can hear them out back at their firepit, laughing and having fun, but it's all good.
We moved from the second largest city in Michigan down here. I am NOT a city girl. I grew up on farms, and I tell hubby that it is a testament to how much I love him that I lived in that city for so long (almost 20 years) without leaving him just to get out of it
I feel truly blessed that I am getting to live my dream (and that I could retire at such a young age that I can enjoy it).
I already live in Paradise, IMO, I don't want to live anywhere else.
meri
We've been here almost 2 years and it's MUCH better than where we were in IL. 
