Final Reflection Paper

My wife and I have been talking about going back to Kentucky to retire. We know that Texas has all these great opportunity for work, school and thing to do for the family but we both have jobs in KY and we really love it there. We are trying to hold off on a decision until we are sure that TX will not work for our family, but really, we can make it work and the schools are better here for our kids. I guess were trying to hold off till we are sure, but we know what is better for the kids, but if we do not like it and we are just getting by day by day the living here beucase its better for them is that really worth then being in a place that we love and know we will be happy.

2. And what else? There is always more.

That really is the factors. If I were to go more into detail, we must deal with traffic here, if we work on post or if my wife gets a job at USAA there will be traffic. The communities that are worth buying in are at least thirty minutes from post, this is where the good schools are the squarest foot per home for your money. In Ky we would not need to deal with traffic, and we can live twenty minutes from post and have a good home, no traffic and have jobs on post. We know what is best for the kids, but do we sacrifice living somewhere that is ok to some place we love for that. Normally of course its yes, we would always sacrifice anything for our kids, but its not like the schools are that bad in KY, so it comes down to what we really want to do. This is retirement it comes with a lot more pressure then just a pcs move.

3. What is the real challenge here for you?

The real challenge is the school are better, the actives are more plentiful for the family, more things to do, closer shopping, better living communities – VS – we love KY, we can get the house we want, possibly have land, both have good jobs and they are flexible with times and time off, kids in an ok school. Cons are we are not sure if we want to retire in TX, its ok here but doesn’t feel like home, KY had always felt like home, we live the area, but TX holds better opportunity for us as a family.

4. How does this impact your goals?

This impacts nothing short term. We are still both going to work, the kids are all going to be in school and we will be taking in everything that TX has to offer. Long term it just effects what type of home we are going to buy, how much we have to save, where our kids will go to school, what collage they will go into, where we want to retire.

5. COACH - You will hopefully see some patterns that tie back into the foundation and the feed back loop. Are "life events" mudding the water to achieve their goals. If so, what can be done in your opinion? What are your observations? What evidence are they presenting you? Words or actual evidence?

Our life events play a huge part in this. Beucase we have had such a great experance in KY and we love the area, we love the weather and the community we were apart of this is all playing a huge factor and mudding the water beucase we are comparing TX to this. We want the things we had there, but we also understand we may never have that again. We are very strongly connecting in Ky with good friends that have become family, we have the jobs with these people, and we know that we could happily live there for retirement. This is all our option, but we share it. At the moment the only thing that we can do is sit back, enjoy our new duty station see what it has to offer us, spend the time here that we have and see if in the end it comes around to us and we want to stay.