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Matt Reed
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Joined: 16 April 2004
Posts: 36081
Posted: 23 November 2024 at 5:31am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Retirement. Yeah, that’s how long I’ve been a member.  First explored the JBF in its nascent form 24 years ago which would peg me at 33 at the time.  Now I’m nearing fucking 60.  Damn. 

So where do you hope to retire? Same place as you live or move?  See, we live life in a great but very expensive state. California.  If I could die here, I would.  But that would be financially stupid.  So here we sit.  Where to move. Per my wife’s parameters, we have to live within 20 miles of a major airport.  That severely limits the places we can live.  Furthermore, I want to live in a progressive city, so no urban yet conservative place at all.  Atlanta maybe?  Although GA scares the fuck out of me.  Nashville? TN is a rat hole, so…no. Go back to my home state of Minnesota?  Thought about it, but I haven’t lived there in 34 years.  Those people I think I have a connection with?  Yeah, they’ve got their own lives.  I couldn’t possibly insert myself into them this late into the game. 

So where do you move?  And what criteria have you used, if you have, to do so?
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James Woodcock
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Joined: 21 September 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 7854
Posted: 23 November 2024 at 6:49am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

I’m a similar age to you Matt - 55, but financially, I know I have to work
another 12 years - so retirement is a ways off yet.
By that time my son will be 27 & my daughter in her 40s. This section of my
family is close not, but my brothers & my wife’s siblings already live 100
miles away from us.
My son will likely move away following his education, but I’m not sure we
would follow him.
We currently live in the Black Country - very built up, although we have
found a little pocket by a wood, that is on a ]n estate that cannot expand.

But I do miss the hills & rural-ness of my Yorkshire birthplace.
Bottom line is, here is where my life actually is, here is where the people I
know are. Were I to move away, all of that would be gone.
But I have 12 years to figure it all out.
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Petter Myhr Ness
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Joined: 02 July 2009
Location: Norway
Posts: 3932
Posted: 23 November 2024 at 9:55am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

It's one of those American phenomenons I find fascinating: WHERE to retire. Over here, nobody moves anywhere after retirement *. Except perhaps to sell their big house in order to get a more managable apartment. 

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