Hi Carole,
Have just read your first post. We moved out here in October, and are renting on the outskirts of Fethiye, we have no plans to buy, but see this as a forever move. Of course it is very hard leaving family, and the guilty feelings will certainly persist. I have 5 grand children and I am off next week to see them all, but I know how much I will be looking forward to getting back here.
Living here is very different from holidaying here, and you do only realise that by living here.
It has been a very cold wet winter, but there are gloriously warm sunny days in between. Turkish houses are not built for winter, and it can be colder inside than out, but you can make every day an adventure.