I wouldn't retire there as my life's core loves are here in Va. I'm looking for a vacation and hunting-social meeting place while en route to the hunting and vacationing spots my son and I have enjoyed for 20 years. My preference is river front, 5-10 acres. I already have the blueprints for the house/pool/deck and patio to be built and a I'll leave it to my son who loves Texas more than his father does.

I pay the same air fare flying to Texas as I do our place in Naples.

I need to get my Arkansas raised wife to Texas so that she can see for herself my reasons. Right now her preference is a lake front home on one of two lakes in Va. A trip to Texas and maybe a hunt is in our near future as well as a few nights in Austin and San Antonio. I should have taken her to Pat's last Llano get together. That would have sold her.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward