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That's a pretty drastic move, uprooted your entire life. People do it all the time, and I anecdotally see it rarely work out. Your friend should have bought a cabin, or something small if they wanted to make the huge jump.
As for healthcare its not usually a priority until you need it. Hopefully most people wont need it.
Yes, eventually, we all will! I think if we make plans to move anywhere, there should be a subsequent idea in the back of our heads as to where we will land when it become too difficult to stay in a remote area, if that's what we chose.
Yes, I could see how that would make you think. Here in Jersey, we have a choice of hospitals, urgent cares, and so forth. You can't throw a stone without hitting one.
The thing is, my bf had had a heart attack ten years ago or earlier, so his previous gf, with whom he had moved to the lake house, had insisted on having a hospital nearby out of fear that he would have another heart attack. Then she left because she was a city girl who got a taste of what winter in the Ontario lake country boonies was really like lol.
In the end, a rare disease that had nothing to do with his heart killed him anyway, and he lived most of his last decade in the environment he loved. One of his neighbors up there now has bone marrow cancer, and he travels once a week to a city 90 minutes away for chemo. They used to spend four months of the winter in Florida, but that's out of the question now.
I had a relative retire to NH in the 80's. She was a multi millionaire and the tax status was part of the move.
She had a major heart issue and died in a small town. Doctor's told her children if she had that issue in Mass General Hospital and 3 surgeons standing there ready to operate she would have died on the table anyway!
I had a relative retire to NH in the 80's. She was a multi millionaire and the tax status was part of the move.
She had a major heart issue and died in a small town. Doctor's told her children if she had that issue in Mass General Hospital and 3 surgeons standing there ready to operate she would have died on the table anyway!
When it's your time to go, it's your time......
Dartmouth Medical Center is one of the best in New England don't know if they could have help but I'm sure she was within a drive to it.
I think this should be less about NJ vs WV and more about the importance of assessing the access to and quality of healthcare available wherever you move. As an adult I’ve never lived anywhere other than NJ so it’s not something I’ve ever had to research. I don’t think it’s even something I would have thought to research as someone who is in good health.
Was never ever meant to be a NJ v WV it was to point out two things, 1) NJ isn't as bad as some here say it is 2) People need to fully evaluate when they pick up and move. As I have said before I would love to move to the Mountains, Berkshires of Mass, Adirondacks or even Vermont , NH or Maine but if I do it will have few gas stations , grocery stores, the Church of our choice and decent healthcare in a reasonable distance, that is what we would need to survive.
We snowbird- Florida and the Jersey Shore. We see all of our doctors, dentists in New Jersey. We live within 5 miles of a hospital in both areas. When we/you age, the #1 priority with a move should be healthcare access. I would love to sell both places and buy a few hundred acre ranch out in the boonies. Not in our cards as we age.
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