what would you do? (Cleveland, Akron: sales, rental, how much)

[htlong]

if you were going to retire with a full pension...nothing to pay but a truck payment absolutey no respnsibility what so ever! where would you go? and what would you do?
think about this because i am nearing this point soon?

[gtsurfer05]

I'd move back to Europe and travel around there, go to Australia and South Pacific, etc.

[BelieveInCleve]

It depends on how much money I would be getting for retirement. I would probably keep a house in the Cleveland area but I would probably have a rental or buy a small house around Florida or down south somewhere. I would travel to a lot of places like Europe and Puerto Rico and also jut take a lot of road trips and explore the world and different cultures and religions. Of course I would make sure that I had enough money to support all of this but as long as I was smart about it I should be good.

[Ohiosinmyblood]

I would stay where you are so you always have a house to come home too and then I'd travel around the united states first and abroad second. Whe you are done doing that I would settle in the place that you found made you happiest.

[texanweazel]

Find a small home in a small community to call home and travel at least once a year to a country or an area of the U.S. that you have always wondered about.

Either that or move to the Florida Keys and eat dinner on the beach every night during sunset.

[htlong]

Originally Posted by texanweazel

Find a small home in a small community to call home and travel at least once a year to a country or an area of the U.S. that you have always wondered about.

Either that or move to the Florida Keys and eat dinner on the beach every night during sunset.

Well Tex this is kind of my plan A. I have an opportunity to acquire a trailer in fl, in a non Jerry Springer trailer park which would give the kids and grand kids a place to vacation and I wouldnt be tied down with any maintainence do to the park would do the mowing etc.
buy a travel trailer and go exploring whenever i felt the need to sight see.
that is plan A. i would like some input for a plan B.,C.,and D.
the Europe idea would have been great 10 years ago but today.....visiting canada would scare me!!!

[texanweazel]

Ok..how's about having a summer home up here and spend the rest of the time in Florida? Y'a know...I am feeling the same way about travel, but I try to remember to stay out of my comfort zone and see stuff. I did that when visiting Hawaii in '06 and am eternally grateful that I did.

Neat thing about no responsibilities is that you don't really need a plan B, C, or D.

After setting up the trailer in "non-springerville" Toss a dart at a map and go with it...that's what I would do (and I would shake it up and make it a world map; the only countries that are automatic "foul/retry" are radical muslim or war torn areas that might think killing a clueless American is a great pastime).

Good luck and drop a line to let us know what you end up doing.

[newmex]

I'm reluctantly moving back to Akron to care for family, I was there around Christmas...Akron, Cleveland, Medina, Youngstown and never saw so many depressed faces with tombstones in their eyes, gray sky, and lousy dangerous non-drivers, especially in Medina where I grew up!
There is a place in my heart for NE Ohio, but not what it once was.

I have to leave New Mexico, and after a year I have my complaints about that state, but not as many or never so much than when I was in Ohio. I've met so many rugged yet real, friendly to a fault people in NM, the weather is to die for, and wide open scenery that far outweighs a claustrophobic Ohio. The smell of pinon wood burning at a campfire is just one of the simple pleasures here. No local city tax exists ANYWHERE in New Mexico. They do have a sales receipts tax though, which isn't so biting as a city tax...yet don't go out and buy junk.
You can have a nice trailer and live off the power grid, wind and sun power is really coming into its own, and New Mexico leads in that field.

Europe? Been there, have relatives there only good for visiting. Florida? white trash and more humid than Ohio...New Mexico is like living in a foreign country at times, but never leaving the States.

Cities? Las Cruces, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, Alamogordo, Ruidoso, Roswell, Clovis, Portales, Farmington, Truth or Consequences, and more. Retired people don't need or ask for much but easy living, and a lot of retirees move to New Mexico

texanweazel might know what I'm talkin about...Texas is next door...practically a country unto itself!!!

[htlong]

good ideas , im off for fla friday Im going to check it out , I lived in fl in 1970 and i remember the humidity in summer..whew ! the price is right for fl at this time but I will always be looking for new ideas so keep them coming!

[blacknite]

I would not move further east than Oklahoma, the mid-west because of the weather. Weather is an important factor because it effects our daily living. Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado (snowy winters begin early at high altitudes) have wonderful weather. Humidity like southern states have is not a factor, nor hurricanes, tornados, flooding, etc. You can count on the sun more than 300+ days a year. Arizona has been has hot as 126 degrees, I lived there that day... I woke up to 2 feet of snow in March in Colorado, and New Mexico is practically perfect... the weather that is.