Where do you want to live when you retire?

Leaning toward TN or maybe TX, currently living the dream in Indianapolis, IN.  🙂

If I had the money I would be a snowbird. Live someplace where it is not hot and humid 8 months out of the year. Come back home for the winter. 

I want to live in Piedmont, CA, in northern CA, just south of Berkeley and within smelling distance of the San Francisco Bay. I was there for a planned, two year period to write my memoir and to get back into shape. No car was needed and I walked to everything for two years, and went to the gym 5 days a week after work. (I still work part time.) The people are wonderful, energetic, and the weather is perfect, even on the few days a year we get rain. I cou;ld pick fruit most of the year in the backyard f the rental; apples, blackberries, figs, and plums, from which I made jam. A wonderful nightlife exists and I did my first stand up routine! I'll retunr there in the summer of 2018. Join me?

Retire I place wherever you live. There is really nothing out there that modest retirees can afford these days. The housing market has crippled boomers that wish to retire due to real estate companies that are looking to make unreasonable profits to the expense of others. Millennial s and those in between are caught up in the same dilemma. These is no solution at this point and time. Stay put.

I have live all my life in So. California.  My roots are deep here.  I have one son living on Maui.  I am tempted to move there because I miss living near the ocean and the climate is better than the (High Desert) where i now live.  The cost of living in Maui is a minus in this decission.  It would make me somewhat dependent on my son.  So I will most likely stay put.  

I would like to retire in Belize. I'm tired of all the bull in the states. It would be nyce to look at a scenic backgrounds and enjoy fresh market fruits and vegetables. Walking to and around a culturally diverse people.

Advent Christian Village is a 55 and up commmunity near Live Oak Florida. They offer houses, mobile home lots, retals, apartments, assisted living, skilled nursing care, and memory care. They also have medical and dental care plus a pharmacy.  It basically a small town. They have a library, restaurants, and a hotel. 

I want to own farmland but do not know where. Need suggestions on the best place to do this.  

Well, gosh,this one is pretty simple.  We want to live near the grandchildren!  We calculated the transportation, lodging, and food costs involved in monthly travel from our lower cost of living residence in a neighboring state, vs the higher cost of living associated with moving nearer and it was pretty much a wash, so now we live about 10 minutes away from them....close enough to see them as often as they wish, and to help out when we are needed.  We can also take the kids on ocassional weekend getaways so parents can have some alone time.  We attend baseball games, school plays, various showcases and recitals, etc. In the summer we take them to museums, to the beach, to free concerts and plays, and year round we take them to special events...touring broadway shows (Hamilton coming in November!) Holiday events, etc.  We could live somewhere less expensive, but there is nothing that can compare to the joy in our lives.

We hope to retire in Wilmington, NC or Southport, NC. Our kids live in NC but things can be fluid with them and they may move. I want to live in an area that they will always want to visit if not close by. These are coastal cities but the beach is not what attracts me. Colleges, history, cultural features matter to me in my retirement.