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Apparently, many adoptive parents, along with a whole bunch of other restless natives, are looking for just the right atmosphere to raise kids in.
Money Magazine has come out with its yearly “Best Places to Live” survey, and because this has been a hot topic on the adoption.com forums, I took a look.
Mark and I have often discussed where else we could live. Not that we’re planning to leave this island. We love were we live … our view, our house, our friends, Grandma just down the road, peace and quiet and safe and calm. But life happens, and we know there’s always the possibility that changes could force us to rethink the forever and ever … I’m never moving again! … idea we’ve had since we left England for Seychelles.
Our little bit of the world is changing very fast right now. The Four Seasons Hotel chain is building a huge resort on one of the few remaining uninhabited beaches that used to be like our own private heaven just fifteen minutes walk from our door. (Good place for stripping down for that all-over tan!) We’ve already made a couple of international relocation projects work for us because quality of life is a priority. If our neighborhood transforms so much that it starts making us feel like we’re living somewhere near the junction of the Enchanted Tiki Hut, the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse and Frontierland, we’re outta here.
Believe me, that thought breaks my heart … all of it: having this place turned into an artificial version of what a tropical paradise should be, therefore losing the tropical paradise it is, AND having to leave it.
If that does happen, a sharp rise in our property value will come along with it, and we wouldn’t leave without a bundle … enough of a bundle to set us up somewhere else.
But where?
Continued …
We’ve thought of Panama. Our best friends and neighbors are retiring there. close to the US, fairly inexpensive … Problem is, the property values have already escalated….