Kent, I've been here my whole life also, but since my Daughter moved out there, that's probably the only way we'll ever get to see her.
My Wife plans on retiring after the next school year, and I'm just getting so tired of shoveling snow, and mowing grass, that moving out West just has a nice ring to it.
It's just in the planning stages right now, we may do the "snow bird" thing for awhile before we make anything permanent.