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We (husband and I) "retired" to the place of our dreams (Sanibel Island FLA) while we were still working full time and making enough to afford it. Spent 10 wonderful years there, but as true retirement approached with the decrease in income, we could no longer afford paradise and moved "off-island." We are now free to decide to where to really retire, and although we're "young" retirees, we're considering what it will be like to be OLD retirees (time flies, you know, and we'll all be old before we know it) with possible needs for assistance in getting around and activities of daily living, etc. So we're going to rent near family in the frozen north (NW Ohio) to see if we could find a way to enjoy our retirement outside the sunbelt. Wonder if there's others out there who moved from the cold to the sunbelt in their 20s and now thinking of moving back "home" to be nearer family....
We (husband and I) "retired" to the place of our dreams (Sanibel Island FLA) while we were still working full time and making enough to afford it. Spent 10 wonderful years there, but as true retirement approached with the decrease in income, we could no longer afford paradise and moved "off-island." We are now free to decide to where to really retire, and although we're "young" retirees, we're considering what it will be like to be OLD retirees (time flies, you know, and we'll all be old before we know it) with possible needs for assistance in getting around and activities of daily living, etc. So we're going to rent near family in the frozen north (NW Ohio) to see if we could find a way to enjoy our retirement outside the sunbelt. Wonder if there's others out there who moved from the cold to the sunbelt in their 20s and now thinking of moving back "home" to be nearer family....
I wonder about the move from the sunbelt back up to the more 'temperate' zone also..I have lived in south Florida for 39 years, hailed from the Midwest. I want to move somewhere with 4 seasons, about equal in length. I want to live where the drivers are at least partially sane...as compared to the crazies down here! I have no family except for an older sister who lives in southern California. I know that that area, although with a wonderful climate, is too expensive and too crowded for me. I would like to live in a place that is NOT a tourist destination.....been there, done that for way too long.
We (husband and I) "retired" to the place of our dreams (Sanibel Island FLA) while we were still working full time and making enough to afford it. Spent 10 wonderful years there, but as true retirement approached with the decrease in income, we could no longer afford paradise and moved "off-island." We are now free to decide to where to really retire, and although we're "young" retirees, we're considering what it will be like to be OLD retirees (time flies, you know, and we'll all be old before we know it) with possible needs for assistance in getting around and activities of daily living, etc. So we're going to rent near family in the frozen north (NW Ohio) to see if we could find a way to enjoy our retirement outside the sunbelt. Wonder if there's others out there who moved from the cold to the sunbelt in their 20s and now thinking of moving back "home" to be nearer family....
I moved back to New England (my home) from the Midwest twice, though much younger. The feeling of being back on home soil is terrific, but I had to trade relatively mild winters (no down parkas and earmuffs and lined boots) to real northeast winters. Cold winters are better than hot summers for my health condition, and now that I have someone to do the grounds and snow, it's not so bad. Living in a condo may be the way to go.
I had a part time business for years in SoCal deserts, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage mostly. I stared that business because a very wise realtor made a great observation. There seemed to be a "life cycle" of retirement in the southern California desert communities. A couple, typically from colder winter climates, would visit a few times and decide that it would paradise to retire there. They would buy a house and move in in October and stay until April and return "home". This cycle lasted for an average of 12 years. Then, one of them takes ill or worse and the desert house becomes the last thing on their minds. They want to go "home" to be taken care of in familiar surroundings, kids and fiends. The kids want no part of a house miles away so they wan't it sold so mom and dad don't have to worry about it. In come the realtor's; they want the house updated so that they can sell it...nothing has changed much in those 12 years...in comes the contractor who's done the updating countless times and everyone is happy.
Don't want to be downer, but you really need to put some thought into where you want to live and what your options are if that doesn't quite work out.
So very true. I think for many of us, our favorite or first choices for retirement are too expensive -- at least when it comes to real estate -- and that's certainly the case with those!
Buy what a great place to be "stuck". I'd also like to be 'stuck" in Big Sur, Monterey, Sausalito, Carmel, Santa Cruz or La Jolla.
La Jolla used to be a great place like that. But the rest of San Diego (La Jolla *is* San Diego, though they're too stuck-up to admit that) has grown around it. So it's now just another nice neighborhood in the city.
... Wonder if there's others out there who moved from the cold to the sunbelt in their 20s and now thinking of moving back "home" to be nearer family....
If I'm ever left on my own, I'd probably move from SoCal to Denver to be near family.
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