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Old 10-19-2022, 09:38 AM
 
Location: SLC
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This discussion is very helpful - besides the back and forth. We are looking into retirement relocation to PNW. While Olympic Peninsula and Bellingham interest us more, we are starting to think that greater Seattle might be a better option for medical access that can become a super high priority at short notice, particularly as one grows older.
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Old 11-03-2022, 11:54 PM
 
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Update: A large, new billboard advertising hiring at Olympic Medical Center went up on Hwy. 101 in east Port Angeles. In other news, a specialist I have seen for years is counting down the days before they retire...less than 4 months...and no one to replace them.
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Old 11-04-2022, 12:31 PM
 
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Update: A large, new billboard advertising hiring at Olympic Medical Center went up on Hwy. 101 in east Port Angeles. In other news, a specialist I have seen for years is counting down the days before they retire...less than 4 months...and no one to replace them.
That's not exclusive to the Peninsula, though. My Oncologist in Issaquah retired, and it was several months before he was replaced. More recently last April another of my specialists moved to another state and has still not been replaced. One of my wife's doctors also retired, and appointments with another are several months out. I had an MRI and a CT scan last week, but had booked them back in June because they were 4 months out.

If a retiree is looking for peace and quiet, lower cost living, then I wouldn't write off the Peninsula just due to medical care.
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Old 11-04-2022, 04:37 PM
 
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^^Medical care is something that future retirees always ask about when they are considering moving to the Olympic Peninsula. It was the topic of the OP, so I'm just trying to share what they will find. When I moved here, I didn't even need a primary care physician, but things change. I have to say, I am surprised by the medical staff vacancies in Issaquah, that is such a centrally located & desirable area


Unfortunately, low COL here is not guaranteed. Real estate prices really exploded here, just like everywhere else.

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Old 11-04-2022, 08:24 PM
 
Location: West coast
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It is not inexpensive here.
The wife and I went to Long Beach for a razor clam dig .
We met an elder couple doing the same.
They asked where we were from and I said the Sequim area.
He laughed and said “we are not rich enough to live there”.
It never occurred to me that it was like that.

About medical care,
My pension plan takes good care of us and gives us either a free Kaiser plan or a $175 per month ppo.
It’s just that there is no local Kaiser so we wing it the best we can and do our hospital stuff in California.

We are early retirement age in good health and figure we have maybe another 20 years of good health if we are lucky.
I don’t think I’d rather retire in any other place.

Hopefully in a few years the healthcare voids will be shored up.
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