I think I might go along with the ones who have said "stay where you are, and travel a lot"--which is what the DH and I have come to. We love middle TN better than any place we ever lived in; and that was a lot (NC, ND, Alaska, TX (more than once), MS, LA, GA, AL, FL, SC, that I can remember right now). I have only been quilting, as such, for 10 years or so, and am not active in any guild; but love this area for it's nearness to every kind of quilting store one could ever hope for.
We are both retired, so don't have to worry about jobs anymore (now it is who will tend our pets when we decide to do a road trip) and we do both love to travel. We would like to live in a warmer place when wintertime gets here, but we do hate the humid summers here. We live in middle TN near the KY border, so we are happy with our physical location and do love our home. We have spent nearly 20 years remodeling an old farmhouse, I have an outside sewing room (had the Amish build us a shell 16x40 and we finished the inside to accommodate a huge sewing room, bedroom with stacked QS beds, and a small bathroom) and he has a huge two-door garage with two wings to accommodate his old-timey cars and my spill-over stash and sewing machines.
I am giving some thought to hosting some type of get-together for us forum folks who would like to meet and greet. Not anytime soon though, we have grandchildren who are out of school right now and wanting to go to the beach, or to the waterpark; and I have a ton of canning to get done this summer. The blackberries are waiting for me right now, in fact.