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- A boomer recently moved to San Diego Country from a suburb of Minneapolis.
- He said he’s “never moving back to Minnesota” due to California’s weather, convenience, and nature.
- He lives in a more expensive senior facility, but it has much nicer amenities than in Minnesota.
Brian Dalton, 72, spent most of his life in Minnesota, aside from three years in North Carolina with the Army and a short stint in Arizona.
For four decades, he worked as a laboratory manager and bartender in Minneapolis. A part of him always wanted to live in California to escape the freezing winters and move to the coast. He got the chance to temporarily move to California after his retirement to help his son start a business, and after spending a few months there, he knew he had to move permanently.
“I wanted to get out of the winters here, the cold, the slipping on the ice,” Dalton told Business Insider. “It was expensive, but I finally made the move in July of last year.”