Posted on 01/23/2014 9:45:16 AM PST by rstrahan
. It might seem fun to move to a new place in retirement that has nice weather, more leisure activities or a significantly lower cost of living. But there are also many drawbacks of moving away from your friends, family and support system. Most people don't relocate in retirement, and those who do tend to move only very short distances. Just 6 percent of those age 60 and older changed residences between 2008 and 2012, and more than half of the people who traded places stayed within the same county, according to Census Bureau data. Here's why you may not be better off if you move to a new place in retirement:
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Moving from Blue to Red is the only plan that makes sense, IMO, especially if you can get other associated benefits like tax relief in various forms. Just remember to leave any vestiges of Blue thinking behind when making the move and lose the following phrase from your lexicon: “Back in XX, we did it another way.” That’s probably why it sucks back in XX and why you wanted to move.
I lived my whole life in or around Kansas City but traveled full time the last decade. Have a vacation home at the Lake of the Ozarks (central Missouri), and have kept it.
However, work presented a chance to move to Arizona two years before retirement and we did it. Now my prinicple residence is in a state with lots of retired people and retirement amenities with wonderful weather. I still have a vacation place in Missouri to take a break from the July heat out here when I need a change of climate.
My nine grandkids are scattered across the east coast and upper great lakes so I was already 10 hour minimum away and if we want to get together where they can reach us in a ten to fifteen hour drive we can do it at the Lake.
My travel had broken a lot of my regular social circle already but I will have friends I will miss. I will be forced to make a lot of new freinds, but that isn’t a bad skill set to freshen up.
It will be in the mid fifties Friday evening after work, I will turn the spa heater on in my back yard before I climb in. In the move I bought big warm robes for trip back into the house. I think I am going to like retirement in 2015.
We’re having a short period of warmth in the northwest and the mountains, but don’t be fooled. This is the end of the solar maximum in this extended minimum.
3 to 9 years from now, we’re going to see cold that we’ve never seen before in the northwest and on the Rockies. Things are going to break. Heating will be extremely expensive. Propane will stop producing pressure for heating and generators, when temperatures drop to near -44, Fahrenheit. There will be many roads uncleared in winter, with layers of ice that vehicles will drive onto, then sink (government costs, equipment failures, overwhelming, extreme weather, high ice banks next to roads, quickly catching high drifts with every wind).
If you’re in the north or among the peaks, move. Find a place far enough south for warmth and continued life. Ignore real estate interests on weather patterns.
Nice..
this would be my speed.
Can’t find a fault there!!!
My wife and I are at the point where our children are grown up and on their own and we plan to be moving to another part of the country later this year. Time to make new memories - not relive old ones! We are letting our children live their own lives.
Yes, we will still see them on holidays and vacations and that will be enough!
So true and now its even a survival issue. Who knows what is to come. Nothing good thats for sure.
Tucked up in a nice little retreat in the mountains with gardens, chickens and alternative electrical system beats family, friends and social services. When the SHTF our family will be at the front gate with their empty rice bag and their 100 LB dog. :-)
With jet travel today, you are no more than 5 hours away coast to coast in the lower 48.
Lafayette, heart of Cajun country, the nicest people on earth. Far enough away from the decadence of New Orleans and everybody’s polite.
Texas and Florida have no income tax. You can’t get more red than Texas, even with that saddle sore called Austin sittin on there butt.
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