Transition to retirement and return migration: In search of a good life

Author(s) : Liliana Azevedo

Source :  p. 7-10 : https://www.europeansociology.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/Newsletter_Ageing%20in%20Europe_31_PhD.pdf

“The other day we [my husband and I] started to talk about, hum, returning to Portugal. If I think with my heart, I would say “I don’t want to go”, but if I think with my mind, hum… (…) If we stay here [in Switzerland] until the end, with our pension, we will not be able to travel that much. (…) Down there [in Portugal], at 65 years old, if we are ok [in good health], we will be able to travel, we can continue to do lots of things, but here we cannot do that much.”