Chris is from NY and I had moved there to nanny. After a year of dating, we decided we were going to move in together. It was too expensive to live where we were on LI, so we decided to move. We made a list of places we wanted to live and started narrowing it down.

Chris had been coming to this part of Florida on vacation his whole life. His grandparents were living down here at the time (they were snowbirds, spending summers in MA) and his grandfather was dying of bone cancer. We decided to come down here to help them and then we would decide where we wanted to move. His grandfather passed away about 3 months after we moved down and we decided we liked the area and wanted to stay. We moved 45 minutes up the road to Sarasota and we've been here ever since. That was almost 9 years ago.

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