Hi and welcome Jeff,
I too am a newbie on this forum from N. California, but was born in the Philippines NCR of Luzon, but we have permanently retired in the Philippines going on 18 yrs and our retirement lifestyle is still enjoyable and very satisfying.
We've pretty done all the traveling we wanted to do and about time to stay put in one place, until the the travel bug urges us again to take a trip some place we want to visit and doesn't matter where as long the weather is comfortable, don't like cold weather.