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Mountain cabin with a deck or screened room in a meadow.
Non-deciduous trees surrounding the meadow so I can watch the squirrels play. Elk and deer.
Metal roof. Pellet stove with natural gas as secondary. No popcorn ceilings.
Major grocery/big box store within 10 miles.
Family within a 6 hour drive.
Good reliable WiFi.
Weather-proof garage or small barn for my truck and camper.
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You're very close to describing our retirement property in North Idaho! Except for "family nearby," but we've got good friends instead. WiFi is hopefully on the horizon, but we're still a little too remote for that. Metal roof, check. Deck, with mountain view, check. We're going with a wood stove, not a pellet stove, with electric heaters as back-up. The grocery/big box stores are 35 miles away. The garage/shop is in the future, but we've got the camper! And we're less than 1/2 mile from a river! We've got tons of deer, elk, moose, bears, and mountain lions. And golden eagles, ospreys, and bald eagles. Probably also a few squirrels, if they haven't been eaten...
The South of France. Even though normally I don't really like warm weather and sunshine too much, I figure when I am elderly I would like to go somewhere nice and warm with a soft sun. There is a special light artists always mention when they talk about how great it is to paint there. I want to live in an ochre colored house/villa with blue frame windows, airy rooms with windows that open onto fragrant lavender fields, and a heated pool because it's good for the joints. It is doable if I win the lottery.
right here in nyc. we thought we might have liked a more rural cheaper lifestyle but that wasn't for us.
nyc has everything we would want in retirement , except for the high costs.
we can see venturing off to other places perhaps for a few months in the winter but unless our kids and grand kids move they are ultimately the determining factor.
right here in nyc. we thought we might have liked a more rural cheaper lifestyle but that wasn't for us.
nyc has everything we would want in retirement , except for the high costs.
we can see venturing off to other places perhaps for a few months in the winter but unless our kids and grand kids move they are ultimately the determining factor.
Retirees often move away for "lower cost" but wind up canceling out any savings by flying back to see family. As someone pointed out, expecting your kids (and those with kids) to afford the time and money coming to see you is, imo, not fair. Unless of course they really want to.
The South of France. Even though normally I don't really like warm weather and sunshine too much, I figure when I am elderly I would like to go somewhere nice and warm with a soft sun. There is a special light artists always mention when they talk about how great it is to paint there. I want to live in an ochre colored house/villa with blue frame windows, airy rooms with windows that open onto fragrant lavender fields, and a heated pool because it's good for the joints. It is doable if I win the lottery.
Wouldn't it be very unusual to have natural gas piped in to a mountain meadow such as you have described? Aren't those two things mutually exclusive? The rest of your ideal place does sound doable.
I do not have access Natural Gas. However I do have 2 large tanks of LPG installed to fuel a water-heater. That water-heater serves as backup for our radiant floor heating system.
Our primary source of heat is a wood stove that heats water, for our radiant floor. So far this heating season we have burned through about 3 cords of wood. It has been a very cold winter. The LPG tanks are topped off once/month, the gas feeds our clothes dryer and water-heater.
The South of France. Even though normally I don't really like warm weather and sunshine too much, I figure when I am elderly I would like to go somewhere nice and warm with a soft sun. There is a special light artists always mention when they talk about how great it is to paint there. I want to live in an ochre colored house/villa with blue frame windows, airy rooms with windows that open onto fragrant lavender fields, and a heated pool because it's good for the joints. It is doable if I win the lottery.
It sounds lovely.
I love soaking in hot springs pools. Laird Hot Springs in British Columbia is heavenly. If it wasn't for the winters and the distance to a Costco.
Some will say "Right where I am," and that's understandable. But for those who may not want to live out their days right where they are now: Where do you imagine you would be most content just before leaving the known world...and what are some of the explicit features of that place (for you)? Is it doable for you, or just a fantasy?
Thailand! For me, I don't want to live out my last years in some boring quiet retirement village around a bunch of people of my same age stuck in front of the TV.
I want to be where it's warm all year around, there is excitement, lots of young people, and just be able to take pleasure in soaking up the foreign exotic culture until I die.
LOL, the ironic part is that except for the property taxes and the housing prices, I'm describing where I currently live! Basically I'm looking for "here" but with taxes of under $4K/yr ($3K or less would be heaven indeed, LOL).
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