h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Last year, after 40 years, I left my 3 day a week hospital job as fed up with the long commute & various changes in the workplace. Claimed my first pension pot & continued with my one day at local hospital as well as taking up some new leisure activities.
I hadn't planned to retire just yet, although I am eligible this May to do so, as I do still enjoy my work.
Now my dept head is intending to move my clinic (2 days a week, colleague does the other day) to an outpost further away (largely to make space for a more lucrative clinic). I really don't want to move - longer car journey or even longer by public transport & can only see problems rather than benefits to the move. It's supposed to be a 1 yr trial but I know how these things go, I can't see that we'd ever move back.
I now have to decide - do I retire before the move, do I try the new location & resign soon if I don't like it, or accept the move, make the best of & carry on until I do feel like retiring.
Am planning to do a dummy run by car to see how I feel about the journey & have lots of questions to ask. It's such a shame as I was looking forward to ending my career in the current location.