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I am 66 and plan on retiring next summer. I found this sight when I did a Google search on 55+ communities. I check the forum almost daily now. The hardest part about retirement for me is every 2 weeks when I get my paycheck and I think 'this will go away next year'. I find that a bit intimidating.
I would like to move to an area that has lower property taxes, and warmer winters. In Ohio, we have long, grey winters that are depressing. My wife won't move to any place that is extremely hot in the summer, so Arizona and Florida are out. And San Diego is way too expensive for us. So I don't know. Maybe coastal Virginia or North Carolina.
You need to do a LOT more research. Coastal Virginia and North Carolina are very hot and humid for at least 4-5 months per year. Personally, I find the dry heat in Arizona to be less oppressive than in the Southeast this time of year.
I am 66 and plan on retiring next summer. I found this sight when I did a Google search on 55+ communities. I check the forum almost daily now. The hardest part about retirement for me is every 2 weeks when I get my paycheck and I think 'this will go away next year'. I find that a bit intimidating.
Yep. I've certainly grown accustomed to "the miracle of direct deposit."
You need to do a LOT more research. Coastal Virginia and North Carolina are very hot and humid for at least 4-5 months per year. Personally, I find the dry heat in Arizona to be less oppressive than in the Southeast this time of year.
Very true. I lived in Atlanta in the 70s when we had over 40 straight days of 100 or better with humidity; brutal. I am in NC now and have been in a few discussions with Floridians where I trotted out the weather almanac entries to show it is almost identical everywhere in the south during the summer (dew points in the 70s, highs in the 90s). They just get more of it. But 4 months of it is still too long if you can't deal with it and 6-7 months isn't really too long if you can. You can bounce up to the cities in C-D and compare the summer months in Raleigh to Tampa. It is much closer than you might imagine.
I read the retirement forums and am only 23. I find the wealth of information informative and it does help me plan out what I should do for my money. I've always been relatively frugal, but it's very hard to conceptualize 40 to 50 years into the future. Unfortunately a lot of what I read I need to reassert my own life with as I shouldn't, for instance, throw all my money into a retirement account and not pay down my debt (but boooooy does it feel like I want to)
At 62, I just placed an order for a custom built RV that will take about a year to get.
I'll start out on short trips and may just find the right trip where I never come back home.
Reading this does reinforce that there is a life after leaving a career.
You need to do a LOT more research. Coastal Virginia and North Carolina are very hot and humid for at least 4-5 months per year. Personally, I find the dry heat in Arizona to be less oppressive than in the Southeast this time of year.
Well, it's mid to upper 80s here in Columbus with high humidity most of the summer. That is very similar to coastal Virginia and North Carolina. What my wife doesn't want is 95 with 100% humidity, like what Florida gets all summer long. And the 105 dry heat isn't her thing either. I don't know. It seems my wife and I differ on what our ideal climate is, other than southern California...which we cannot afford. Personally, I think Arizona could be ok, but she will have none of that....
I have always been very open with my kids (now in their late twenties/early thirties) about my mistakes and the problems and pain they caused. My advice to them has always been "Be creative and make your own mistakes, don't make mine twice!"
Good advise. my father told me that you learn one way or the other and the easiest is to listen to someone who learned the hard way. Kind of always struck with me. Hopefully your kids listen. Another I remember but never who advised it is; life is 10% problems and 90% about what you do about them.
Very true. I lived in Atlanta in the 70s when we had over 40 straight days of 100 or better with humidity; brutal. I am in NC now and have been in a few discussions with Floridians where I trotted out the weather almanac entries to show it is almost identical everywhere in the south during the summer (dew points in the 70s, highs in the 90s). They just get more of it. But 4 months of it is still too long if you can't deal with it and 6-7 months isn't really too long if you can. You can bounce up to the cities in C-D and compare the summer months in Raleigh to Tampa. It is much closer than you might imagine.
True, and I've never understood Florida hate due to this. At least in Tampa, winters are still very comfortable, whereas in Raleigh you do get a true winter.
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