Yes, we attend IHM in Akron, OH.  Father Carley does indeed travel every Sunday to Wheeling for, I believe, a 12:30 PM Mass ... after offering one at 9:00 AM in Akron ... despite his advanced age.  Father is in great shape for his age, mid-80s, but God only knows how long that will continue.  He broke a hip a couple years ago, and +Tissier filled in for him on Christmas Day.  He recovered very quickly, and he remains very active.  He still insists on going out and mowing the grass on the church and rectory grounds ... to stay healthy.  But I don't know if I would make any long-term plans in WV based on the possibility his health could decline suddenly.  Father has arranged for the church property to transfer to the SSPX upon his death or disability, but the SSPX has been known to sell off properties (and his property has significant potential value being adjacent to a ritzy country club with very expensive homes by it).  I had been on the board of trustees, but I stepped down rather than sign the docuмent that would hand over the property to SSPX.  Father wanted to make provision for the people who helped build up the chapel.  I initially advised him to put a clause in the docuмents forbidding the SSPX from selling it, and they refused to accept it under those conditions ... which I found to be very telling.  So Father gave in, and I stepped down.  In any case, even if the SSPX were to retain the property (rather than sell it to finance the new seminary and tell people to head up to the SSPX chapel in Cleveland), there's no guarantee that they would keep the WV chapel going.  I do not believe that there is a very strong attendance down there.

Not sure if it makes a difference, but Pittsburgh is about and hour and fifteen minutes away ... more or less, depending on which side of Wheeling you live on.

Just spoke with Fr. Carley about my brother whom I pray will return to the Church after many decades outside it. Father is still going to Wheeling on Sundays, but it doesn't sound likely that the Wheeling chapel, with its shrinking congregation, would be maintained by the Society once it passes to them.

Thank you for this candid response.  I think this is the answer then.  My husband and I need to make a move for the safety and sanity of my family, but we are not going to uproot just to be left in the same circuмstances we are in now.  The company for which he works could place him in West Virginia without hesitation, but without a Mass to go to we may as well just stay here.  It doesn't make sense to move under these iffy circuмstances.  Thanks so much.

Whereabouts in West Virginia?  Wheeling is at the far northern end of the state, in a bizarre panhandle (an accident of history) that juts up between Ohio and Pennsylvania.  The tip of the Eastern Panhandle, another accident of history, is basically a far exurb of DC.  (People in the DC area sometimes go to heroic lengths, commuting back and forth hours each day, in search of affordable single-family real estate with a patch of land to go with it.  I always preferred to live in more modest accommodations nearer to my work, but everybody's different.)  The rest of the state is basically shaped like an egg.  The nearest TLM to the Charleston-Huntington area is a twice-monthly CMRI Mass in Wheelersburg, Ohio, about an hour west of Huntington going towards Cincinnati, and about two hours from Charleston.  The other options would be Cincinnati or Columbus, or Lexington KY for the FSSP.  It's a desert in those parts.

Fr Carley used to go down to Cross Lanes WV, near Charleston, to celebrate Mass at a fire station on Sunday evenings (not sure if it was every Sunday or just some Sundays).  That went away several years ago.  I went to that Mass one time when traveling through the area.

So sad. You know, once the SSPX controls the chapel, it's gone. Fullerton is salivating over the prospects of selling it to developers.