Color me "Grandma."
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.
How 'bout Fallbrook, instead ?
If I get my way, Tybee Island, GA, but if She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed gets her way, it'll probably be in the mountains somewhere.
Ahem. Retired people is not what I meant.
Interesting thread topic..thanks for starting...let me toss in a curve ball..why wouldn't you want to test move to the area for a year or so..and rent..before committing to the whole shebang of building a home...I mean, you wouldn't buy a car without a test drive?
I'm wondering how everyone is convincing their children to follow 'em with their grandkids.
I'll be retiring "Somewhere-Near-Grandkids."
Heard a good one yesterday: After a hurricane devastated Mexico and killed millions, the U.N. sent money, Europe sent food and the U.S. sent two million replacement Mexicans.
I just got a home improvement loan for 65K. I will not be retiring in this decade.
The Meth problem is everywhere....anywhere there's rural land, there's meth sooner or later.
The main Couer D'Alene issue for us the the "LA" types moving there. The typical rude, self involved, botox types.
We're from Los Angeles, but we're just north of it...we're horse people. We live on a ranch. We like to rural living. These people want to turn Idaho into LA. I makes us crazy...
Couer D'Alene winters aren't Wisconsin or Iowa harsh. It snows, but it's not brutal!
Forget that idea..that's why they made airports..look, you could settle near the grandkids..then one sone gets a transfer to London, the other to Seattle..so, are you gonna live in Nova Scotia?
Well, we're still thinking about moving there. The thing that first attracted me was the fact that for what I can sell my house in San Diego for, I could buy 2 or 3 houses up there WITH land.
Hopefully that won't change too much in the 10 years we have left till retirement.
We also liked Bend, Oregon and Spokane Washington areas.
Color me "Grandma."
Argentina. Cheap land (for now), educated population (good for conversations), good food. I can tolerate governments falling every once in awhile. Besides, by the time I hit 70, I may be looking for a new wife, and Argentina has plenty to offer.
not "hot?"
Not this Nana. Not hot; not cool.
Lukewarm Grandma.
;-p
FYI...Nana was an Old English sheepdog..(G)
My husband was pushing for Maine, but it gets a wee bit cold up there for me. We considered the cape, but it's pricey. Florida is too humid. It's a continuous source of disagreement for us. :)
you peeked!!!!
LOL!
What's your definition of the "inevitable"?
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