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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Second Move: A Complete Guide to Relocating After 50 with Intention, Intelligence, and No Regrets

The Second Move: A Complete Guide to Relocating After 50 with Intention, Intelligence, and No Regrets

Shirley, Kevin

Paperback

Real EstateHealth GeneralSelf-Help

ISBN13: 9798188539627
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 22 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You've spent decades building a life. What if the next chapter is the best one yet, and it starts with knowing when to leave?

For millions of Americans over fifty, the question isn't whether to move. It's whether they have the clarity, the courage, and the roadmap to do it well.

The Second Move is the book that has been missing from the relocation conversation. Not a checklist of the best places to retire, not a financial planning guide in disguise, but a complete, honest, and deeply human guide to one of the most consequential decisions of adult life. Written by a relocation specialist with more than thirty years of real estate experience and the hard-won perspective of someone who made this exact move himself, it covers everything from the first restless instinct that something no longer fits to the morning you wake up in the new place and realize, with something close to relief, that you are exactly where you're supposed to be.

Inside, you'll find:

  • The PLOT Framework: a powerful tool for evaluating any location across the four dimensions that actually determine whether a place will work for you: People, Landscape, Opportunity, and Tone
  • The Three Seasons Test: why visiting a place in its best season is the most expensive mistake a relocator can make, and how to see a city as it actually is
  • The real trade-offs of urban, suburban, small city, and rural living: not the lifestyle-magazine version, but the honest one
  • A complete logistics architecture for the move itself, including the 90-Day Master Checklist and the phased move strategy that working adults actually need
  • The truth about Medicare, property taxes, climate risk, and insurance markets that no one tells you until it's too late
  • How to build community, find belonging, and become a local in a place that doesn't know you yet
This is not a book about running away from something. It's a book about running toward something: toward the life you've been imagining, in the place that actually fits who you've become.

Practical, personal, and written with the candor of someone who has navigated this process from both sides of the transaction, The Second Move is the guide you'll return to at every stage of the journey, from the first conversation with your partner to the morning you open the windows in the new house and let the place in.

The second move is the one you make on purpose. This book shows you how.

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