Coming for scouting visit

Guiness wrote:Hi Dave - we are from Guelph Ontario - came down here scouting three years ago - stayed 10 days - loved it, loved it, loved it.    

Guiness - sent you a pm.

Dave

Well Dave: Certainly one week is really not enough. We came down 3+ years ago. I had been here some 25+ years ago and loved it. My wife had never been here.
Well as I said a week is not enough. I will be getting out of the hospice in a few weeks and I will then have enough time to look around. Every time I get fit enough to go out and look around my wife puts me back in. Make sure your wife likes it here, it's hell if she doesn't. 3 years in hospice is no fun.

I think whether a week is long enough depends on a lot of individual factors, how you use your week and how much you trust your gut instincts. I came here for one week (first time in this area). Two months later I moved down for a one-year stay and am still here five years later. It depends on so many things. Only you will know if one week is enough for you.

We figured it out in one week.

Z

We have friends coming next week from Wednesday - Sunday only. They have been doing a lot of research, have never been here and have already pretty much decided to move here! Tried to tell him he needs more time, but he said he can only take that much time off from work! I can only laugh being that he plans to retire in a few months. Hopefully he will get his priorities straight after he comes to Lakeside  

Here is to priorities.  

Thanks for all the helpful info and suggestions.
Many have suggested that we really need more time to decide which I agree with. The purpose of this trip is just a preliminary scouting expedition to see what kind of feel we get about Lakeside. If we feel it has potential then we will put it on our short list and re-visit in the future for a longer period of time. If I retire it will not be for a year or so so this trip is not about making a once and for all lifetime decision.

If anyone would like to meet up with us for coffee or a meal or such we would be happy to meet a few couples (especially Canadians) to get a first look at life as a full time retiree in Lakeside. By the way we are 61 and 58 respectively.

Cheers
DaveW

I'll hook up with you for a chat, Dave. Send me a PM once you are in town. I live right beside the LCS so you can check that out too.

Hasta pronto!!

CanuckBob wrote:I'll hook up with you for a chat, Dave. Send me a PM once you are in town. I live right beside the LCS so you can check that out too.

Hasta pronto!!

Will do.  We arrive July 31st and depart August 8th so somewhere in between there we will PM you.

DaveW

You'll enjoy visiting with Bob and his wife very much, fun people that waited, visited, and saved before moving down. Will have a lot of insight for you.

CanuckBob wrote:I'll hook up with you for a chat, Dave. Send me a PM once you are in town. I live right beside the LCS so you can check that out too.

Hasta pronto!!

and maybe bob can run ya by our place so's you can see how a "poor" canadian, who went to st. jeromes, lives in chapala.

Pedro wrote:

CanuckBob wrote:I'll hook up with you for a chat, Dave. Send me a PM once you are in town. I live right beside the LCS so you can check that out too.

Hasta pronto!!

and maybe bob can run ya by our place so's you can see how a "poor" canadian, who went to st. jeromes, lives in chapala.

SOunds good to me. Where did you go to St. Jeromes

kitchener of course. the high school not the college. '58-'59. my room mate was cuban and he became homeless.

Pedro wrote:kitchener of course. the high school not the college. '58-'59. my room mate was cuban and he became homeless.

Small world - I grew up in Waterloo and went to WCI. HAd several friends at St. Jerry's.
DaveW

i preferred the friends at st marys-jaja!

And I thought you preferred St. Hairy's...........jajajaja.

CanuckBob wrote:And I thought you preferred St. Hairy's...........jajajaja.

them were the good old days-nudge nudge wink wink