Posted on 09/16/2020 9:31:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“South Dakota has caught my eye recently. Any Freepers live there?”
A few of us.
That said I am a USAF Officer retiree, and whoever this is has to be a very senior General bringing in that kind of retirement income. I’d say O-8 or higher based on this chart: https://militarybenefits.info/2020-military-pay-charts/
As previously stated on the thread, they aren’t usually the ones asking qestions, they are more used to giving orders and having them obeyed.
So back to McGruff. Why did SD catch your eye? I am not a native son but have lived here for over forty years.
“I’ve worked with retired military for nearly 30 years as an Advisor. The retirement income is pretty stout”
It really depends on your rank, personally I think officers are overpaid, especially Junior officers who probably shouldn’t be paid much more than an E-5.
I know retired E7s who basically make about 25% less the house payment as a retirement, and because they moved around their entire career from Base to Base or Station to Station they often times are in the middle of a mortgage or they’d never had a mortgage. So all that hard work and effort equals a paycheck that doesn’t quite equal a house payment not to mention taxes, utilities, excetera... And because you moved around so much you haven’t established a residence or what you could have been paying on for years. And because you lived around so much chances are your spouse hasn’t been able to find anything much more than minimum wage work. Unless they are college grads.
For sure. Portland is rated most bicycle friendly state ever year by Bicycle Magazine.
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Very innovative with bikes there: they now have local conversion kit especially for protestors to turn a bike into a cop and fed bashing weapon
The guy seems to favor Democrat run cities
Hmmm? An SD Freeper I am not familiar with. What part of the State are you Lurking in?
7 months of bad weather is not bicycle friendly
If you go into the right neighbourhoods, you will learn how to ride really fast, regardless of the weather.
OK, I get it now....
General BS depending on where you chose to live in the State. You have been reading too many Tourist brochures from States competing with Wyoming.
That said, Aberdeen, SD probably has a reputation for some of the worst SD weather, in winter at least.
I see the Prairie boy reference, but according to your states visited map, You ain’t even set foot in SD.
Chief or Lt Col are in that range, easy.
In the case of Le Tour, it is a much better view on TV than in person. On TV you have professional cyclists providing commentary from local stuff to team tactics. You get the big overall picture.
As you observed in person, On flat stages, you get to see the Peleton blow by at forty miles an hour for maybe what thirty seconds if that. Then you go home to the TV to find out the rest of the story.
Retired here - enlisted, take home $2800 a month.
I am 5 years from collecting full SS. I live in a deep blue state. I do not want to live my retirement years in a deep blue state. My advice is to find a college town in a red state. While the town itself may be blue, the surrounding area most likely are deep red. My goal is to live in the deep red part. Do your own research but areas that are at the top of my list are : Bloomington IN, Auburn AL and Johnson City TN
Utah and Craft beer don’t mix
Michoacan, Mexico. Very beautful scenes. Lakes, hills, some waterfalls trees. Near Uruapan. Absolutely amazing.
It is. Federal tax.
“I’ll retire with a military pension and want to move to a bicycle-friendly, beer-loving place — so where should I go?”
Haiti?
Nope. It is taxable, I can assure you as someone who gets only a third of that.
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