I've never understood the concept. Long as I'm alive and able, I'm doing something to create wealth or help folks...something....but to each his own.
Posted on 08/02/2005 2:29:28 PM PDT by Die_Hard Conservative Lady
Okay, this is my first vanity post, so let's just have some fun with it.... Where are you going to move when you retire, and why, is what this post is all about, I'm retiring in less than a year, and my husband and I are moving to the Ozarks and build a house on a lake.
I've never understood the concept. Long as I'm alive and able, I'm doing something to create wealth or help folks...something....but to each his own.
Retire? Never!
But if forced to, then Vina Del Mar, Chile is near the top of the list. On the beach, Mediterranean climate, metropolitan Santiago just 60 miles away, best economy in S. America, deserts to the north and cool forests to the south, skiing at the top of the Andes within a 2 hours drive, and still relatively socially conservative (lots of good Catholics and some evangelicals, too.) Home prices are still very affordable, saw a 3-bedroom clifftop with a poolside view of the Pacific for $250,000.
If the good Lord allows, we'll stay right here in Michigan, only nowhere near Lansing. 80 acres and a gun tower, that's all I need.
The place we are going to is the north central part of the state, close to Hardy....
I would want to retire to a place with four seasons, a cool dry summer, a snowy winter, and either water or mountains to enjoy. Affordable housing, pleasant conservative company and an interesting city nearby. Any ideas folks?
Good choice....beautiful there too :)
Las Vegas, NV. The libertarian-minded citizen's Last Frontier. ;)
Interesting concept. Retire and move. I retired last year, but haven't decided where to move to. Probably if I move it will be to someplace where the stars are still visible at night.
It's like that physics experiment in high school where you send a wave down a wire and it bounces off the end and comes back. The wave of civilization started on the east coast and moved west until it hit California and now it is bouncing back east. Eventually it will hit Boston and won't that be an eye-opener for the Mugwumps.
Death and taxes are inevitable. And we've already had the taxes part.
I've already decided that I'm retiring in Washington State.
What a beautiful place!
And I'll just be one more conservative vote in the area. :-D
Spokane, Washington, Grand Junction, Colorado, nearly anywhere in Utah, Flagstaff, Arizona, much of Idaho.
Your idea sounds fine to me.
I think cheap and simple is the way to go. You lose some stores, but who needs them?
Because I've lived in Alaska for 53 years.
I own a house in Wallace Idaho, just East of Coeur dAlene on I-90. The houses are really nice old turn of the century & newer houses, and they go for REALLY INEXPENSIVE!!! I have mine on the market for $50,000 and there are MANY OTHERS for that same price (3 bdrm+). They get snow there, but it is usually pretty mild. You should check out Wallace Idaho or the Silver Valley - it is beautiful!
Ya, I think the meth problem is EVERYWHERE! At least it seems like I run into the problem everywhere I move. I live in Seattle now, but own a house in Wallace. Seattle is really nice when the rest of the country is in 100+ degree weather, we are still in the 80's. My other 1/2 is about to retire from the Navy in a year or so, we are not sure if we will go back to Wallace, or stay in the Puget Sound. Have lived in Colorado, Calif, Washington State, Idaho... Meth is everywhere, I hope they get a grip on it soon. It is like sex offenders, EVERYWHERE!
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