Grandparents moved

[ChirpyPeachMaker]

My children are 3 and 4, my parents have decided to move a 12 hour flight away for a better lifestyle and climate. They’ve taken my grandmother (in her 80’s) with them and that leaves us with no nearby family at all. On one hand I’m happy for them and on the other feel abandoned. Our nearest relatives in UK are hundreds of miles away and we’re not that close. Feel our family has come second to a warm climate. We don’t rely on them for childcare at all - but I feel very sad about the lack of a day to day relationship with them for my children.

your parents have taken a life changing decision and you should be pleased for them that they will spend the remainder of their lives in circumstances of their active choosing rather than their residual imposition? Not sure what answer you want to receive on here? Respect their decision?

Doubtless they have laboured hard over the huge costs of coming back to see you in the future, and without knowing their circumstances, may have accepted it is going to be rare they will ever see their grandchildren growing up. I know of one couple who followed their daughter from S Africa, leaving one son in Canada and one in Australia in "isolation".