# Moving to a new state when you retire? Great or selfish?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 19, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-a-new-state-when-you-retire-great-or-selfish/984299 "2023-05-19T21:42:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-a-new-state-when-you-retire-great-or-selfish/984299/78 "2023-05-23T17:18:29Z")

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> [@Dorjan](#):
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> Once you’ve reached the age/cognitive state where you can’t survive without full time and expensive daily care, I’m really starting to wonder what the point of it all is.

There are people shut as quadriplegics who required full time and expensive daily care but who still want to live and some of them even manage to hold jobs. Mental state can make a huge difference. For awhile we even had a poster here who was in a [locked-in state](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-blinkie-ask-the-guy-with-locked-in-syndrome/516981), his AMA thread was very interesting. Regrettably, he is no longer with us.

Other people, of course, would not want to exist in such a state. YMMV.

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