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I also live downtown in a small town in middle America and can walk or bike to the library, the post office, the county clerk's office, bars, restaurants, the farmer's market, museums, etc. However, if I want to engage in my hobbies, I have to drive.
A LOT.
Does just running errands fill your days in retirement?
Running errands has never filled the day before. Why would it fill my days in retirement?
Lots of hobbies, projects, home maintenance and yardwork/gardening fill my days.
they replace my old battery with a new one,nothing is wrong with my old battery,it is just I left the trunk open over night and drain it.
My old battery is still under warranty from AAA but it would take time to recharge,the guy just replaced it with a new one.
I know what a county clerks office is. I see nothing that make proximity important to 99% of retiree's.
I think I've been to the county clerks office once or twice since moving here, once to get a copy of the deed to my house. The nice thing though here is that it's just one county office of several that are grouped together just a five minute walk from my house including the sheriff where I drop off my property taxes and the court house where I got my new drivers license.
Granted, none of this is used often but it's really nice having it all within a five minute walk. If I ever have to spend the night in jail, I'll be just down the street from where I live right behind the sheriffs office in the old historic jailhouse. Now that's convenient,
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I drove more in retirement than while working. I bought my current car used in 2012 because I suddenly found myself having to drive to work after Sandy took out the train bridge over the water on my commuter line. The car had 27K miles on it. I retired in 2016. In 2017 I started making a 1000-mile RT approximately every month. There were about 75K miles on the car by then. Now there are 157K, but I'm not doing that drive monthly anymore, so it's slowing down. But I love to drive long distances. I can listen to.podcasts or music, talk to myself, whatever, and no one interrupts!
I drove more in retirement than while working. I bought my current car used in 2012 because I suddenly found myself having to drive to work after Sandy took out the train bridge over the water on my commuter line. The car had 27K miles on it. I retired in 2016. In 2017 I started making a 1000-mile RT approximately every month. There were about 75K miles on the car by then. Now there are 157K, but I'm not doing that drive monthly anymore, so it's slowing down. But I love to drive long distances. I can listen to.podcasts or music, talk to myself, whatever, and no one interrupts!
My van just clocked 100k miles after seven years. I thought I was doing a lot of driving!
All of those gas station air machines are broken. They still accept coins, though. I think it's a racket.
I bought a Slime tire inflator at Walmart, the best one they had. I've been very happy with it.
On the east coast Wawa gas stations have free air machines. I have my own as well though.
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