Eileen and Michael O’Connor in Lower Manhattan, where they searched for a one-bedroom to enjoy their retirement in. Katherine Marks for The New York Times

Eileen O’Connor was a New Yorker for the first 30 years of her life, starting on the Upper East Side and then growing up in Queens. In 1981, her job at a major U.S. airline led her to Texas when the company relocated its headquarters to Fort Worth. She spent the next four decades there.