“do NOT understand why anyone with actual functioning thought processes would stay in New York.
Just. Get. Out.”
Because some of us invested millions of dollars in local businesses 40 to 50 years ago and can’t just close up shop without losing our investment. I am retiring on 08/31/24 from a business I started in 1986. I will cash out then and move to a state where my vote counts.
Congrats on your retirement.
Do what you want to do—this is your chance to ignore everyone else’s opinions.
One thing that made it smoother for me was lying to co-workers about what I was going to do when I retired.
I made up something that I knew they would like, be unable to verify and would keep them off my back.
Then I retired and did what I wanted.
If anyone asks me about it these days I do the Joe Biden imitation.
“I said what? When?”
Lol.