I did not know there was a name for it or a whole culture surrounding it. The discovery has triggered a lot of discussion with my now adult children, my elderly parents, and my siblings. I’ve done a lot of reading on the subject and I’ve tried to understand how and why we could get to this point by accident.

Six years ago my husband and I bought a place, expecting to retire there in 6 to 9 years. We looked at places in a vacation area that we had visited often and enjoyed. Prices and land covenants and water availability issues surprised us. So when we stumbled across a place that met our criteria for location, lack of covenants, parcel size, ambience, and price we had to consider it seriously, even though we had only been looking for one week.