<p>Mathmom… I am in the exact same situation as you. I live in a close-in suburb of Nassau County-easy commute on the LIRR, or driving into Queens and parking or driving into the city with no traffic can make it into midtown in 30 minutes…but our plan was always to sell this house and move back into the city. So prices in Manhattan and Brooklyn and now Long Island City have skyrocketed and while we can certainly sell our house we cannot sell it for what houses were selling for pre-recession. I am about a year away from retirement and DH is already retired. He would like to have a place in Florida for the winter while I am more interested in travelling while we can still easily do so and not tie ourselves down. We have many friends with two places and there are always headaches with house alarms, getting cable TV up and running again, car shipments back and forth and so on. I am just not interested in dealing with all of that and I don’t see myself ever leaving the NYC area. I have a former colleague who said NYC is the best place to be retired. Senior citizen fares on the bus and subway, senior rush tickets for the Met Opera, zillions of things to take advantage of, cheap theatre off-off Broadway, discounts for Broadway and so on and so on. While I love my house, DH and I realize it would be a difficult house to age in as house was built in 1927, steep stairs to basement from first floor, steep stairs from first floor to next level, house not on grade level. DH still does his own yardwork and shovels snow unless a major storm in which we hire people.</p>