Vera and Deirdre moved back to Yorkshire in 2005, and Agnes and her husband moved back to Norfolk in the same year. Enid and her husband sold their holiday home in the Costa Blanca in 2006, and bought one in Florida. In 2006 Jenny left her husband and returned to the UK and rented a property close to where her daughter lived. Lillian and her husband bought a house further inland in southern Spain and kept the house in the Costa Blanca as a holiday home.

Throughout this book I have emphasised that knowledge is contextually and temporally specific and it's important to emphasise again that women's retirement migration was also contextually contingent. Since the fieldwork took place, the structural contexts enabling retirement migration have shifted: the economic crisis in 2008 has affected housebuilding and house prices in the Alicante province (De La Paz and White, 2012) and there has also been a reduction in British migration to Spain and an increase in return migration (Huete et al, 2013). It is unclear what the impact on retirement migration will be in the future, but issues to consider include longer retirement and geo-environmental concerns.