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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We've just bought some land in Turkey and plan to build a home on it over the next couple of years. The idea is then to spend increasing stretches of time there and maybe stay for good when I retire in only 9 years time. The lure is the peace and lack of aggravation during plain daily living. I find that here, everything I try to do, even the simplest of things, is laden with hassle. The drive to work, the job, the equipment to do the tasks, the attitude of people around me, fitting all domestic chores and leisure time into too few hours ' very rarely do any of these come without problems and their incumbent pressures.
I accept that my patience has grown thinner with advancing years, but looking around me I find I am not alone in feeling 'trapped' in a lifestyle that is not healthy (in all senses) - a lot of younger friends and colleagues feel the same (not to mention hubby who is 17 years my junior). From a finance angle, my pension spent out there will go a lot further than it will here! I realise that being on holiday somewhere is not the same as living there and I also understand the need to keep occupied as well as stimulated. Hubby plans to freelance with his photography and I shall paint, pickle, potter and do odd jobs around the village ' that may add to the coffers, too.
Maybe I feel I've done my 'national service' and can afford myself some quality time before it's loo late. Maybe I just want to feel warm, relaxed, well, happy and at peace. Maybe I'm just an old hippy who never lost the ethic''.