I'm 55 with no idea where I want to retire. Housesitting is helping me work my way toward an answer.

I've spent the last three years living out of suitcases and housesitting from Washington to Mexico, trying to figure out where I want to retire. Amber Campbell At 55, I thought I would have already figured out where I want to retire in the next few years. Instead, I've been living out of suitcases and housesitting in different places to see what I like. I still don't know where I will retire, but I do have a much better idea of what I want — and don't. I always thought I'd be settled somewhere for good by age 55, with a comfortable home, established garden, and chest freezer in the garage. But after growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, raising my kids in Seattle, and becoming an empty nester , I realized I had no idea where I wanted to settle down.