Escaping is definitely possible. When we told friends and coworkers what we were doing, almost all of them said they planned on leaving as soon as they retired. I just hope they get to that point. We thought about waiting that long but it would’ve been another decade. And we would’ve been older and less capable of fixing up the house and the farm and getting started being somewhat self-sufficient. And you have never know what kind of illnesses and disabilities will make things more difficult.
Now financially, we took a big loss. Sold our house at a loss. Have you gave up a very high pain job. We moved to a somewhat backwards area, knowing full well the high-paying jobs wouldn’t be here. But that keeps prices low and illegals and liberals out. So all in all we figured it was a good thing.
A cute example is a proposed will text. People here are complaining because the county is thinking of been posing one. Guess what our car registration is? $25 a year. Flat. The brand new Prius and Harley have the same registration as the 10-year-old Prius and 15-year-old Dodge truck. (We are not environmental Nazis, we just enjoy the good gas mileage and got good deals on both hybrids.). Anyway I find it heartwarming that people are complaining and picketing and going to Townhall meetings because they don’t want to pay $50 registration :-) most of our registrations were well over $300 in the socialist state of Mexifornia! The truck was close to $600 and it is an old piece of junk! ( don’t tell hubby I said that… )
Well, my dictating on the phone and hardly been able to see your correct it didn’t work out :-( sorry about that.
That was supposed to be hubby gave up a high-paying job…
People are complaining about a wheel tax…
I Know what you mean about some things being so incredibly inexpensive that it is almost funny.