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Where do you want to live when you retire?
It is reported about 10,000 baby boomers retire daily.
Some of them want stay home where they are.
Some want to move to other place to enjoy their retirement.
Do you want retire and stay where you are?
Or do you want move to a community where you can make friends and share commen interests?
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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.
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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.
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Not entirely true. Plenty of cheap places but you have to look for them and settle for what you can afford. Places in FL, SC, upstate NY. Etc my friend in NY rents mobile w screen room 700 month. Could buy it for 22k. OH has rental apts 400 month. FL has mobile home parks 250-500 monthly rent. Some cheap mobiles. 20k-30k even less. Go online.
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I am retired but I am stuck where I am at. I lived for 20 years in Denver but now I am in Texas. My ex husband and I moved there 10 years ago for his work and he is retired too. I love Denver but I can't afford it anymore and I don't want to endure the winters there too.
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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?
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@l508156s wrote: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.
You could try Vancouver BC. It's not exactly cheap, but the exchange rate should help you a little if you are coming from the US. Our summers are breathtakingly beautiful.
I'm actually looking for something of the opposite, somewhere to go in the winter when its drizzly and grey here. Thinking along the lines of Costa Rica, Mexico, Thailand. Somewhere that the dollar goes a bit further.
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I'd like to find a town in the northeast/Middle Atlantic states along a train line; also near water, like the ocean, bay or a river. No need to live on the water, but it would be great to be able to walk to it. I realize that the taxes with be a lot more than I pay now (I live in Florida), but living in a town near mass transit is an OK trade, for me. Many of the beach towns have housing costs that are often prohibitive . Suggestions?
Also, are there any websites that alllow one to plug in information that might help find some locations? I've looked at several and they are pretty simplistic, or are connected to retirement communities. I'd like to avoid a retirement community and live in a town or city.
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Near water -- big water.I'd love the Atlantic or the Pacific, even the Mississippi or Lake Superior or Lake Michigan.
I'd like to find a community of sartists-- I'm a writer and would love to live where there are other writers, painers, sculptors, dancers -- for conversation, stimulation, friendship.
I live in a nice, bland mid size city now. It's not where I was born and I have no attachment to it.I have two children,scattered,am divorced and no other family. I'd need to find a place open to new people.
I grew up in Chicago and love it, but can't afford where I'd like to live -- and if I have to move into a suburb I might as well stay where I am.
I was a hippie, am a hippie -- would love a small progressive town, near water where I could my dachshund and volunteer for Animal Rescue.
I lived through Mid West winters all my life and that wouldn't both me particulalry -- as long as I had a garage!
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Sounds like you'd enjoy the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I was thinking Eugene, specifically, from some of your comments--an hour's drive from the beautiful and rugged coastline of the Pacific Ocean (the wonderful McKenzie & Willamette Rivers are nearby, too), great local airport to connect you to major airports, hippie enclave, arts galore, University of Oregon's hometown (bright minds and thriving programs), Oregon residents LOVE their dogs (and cats) so you'd find some kind of animal rescue work, no doubt. Portland is a doable drive (2 hours approx.) and center of much of what you want, as well, with a thriving arts community--music, writing, performance arts, museum, etc. Housing prices are higher in P-land than Eugene. Recreational and medical marijuana are legal here, not that you asked, but for some, it's a draw. While snow isn't a regular happening for the Willamette Valley, it does occur occasionally. Winter is usually rain and then more rain, but summers are lovely and mild--rarely hitting the high 90s and beyond.
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Sorry, duplicate answer.
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Sorry, posted before I finished--happy fingers !!! Although you stated you would like to be near BIG water, that would be the only thing missing from your criteria. However, there are MANY great rivers and lakes with beautiful waterfalls in the mountains and so again I say, give it a look.
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@dreamhomenj wrote:
It is reported about 10,000 baby boomers retire daily.
Some of them want stay home where they are.
Some want to move to other place to enjoy their retirement.
Do you want retire and stay where you are?
Or do you want move to a community where you can make friends and share commen interests?
Rapid City South Dakota. The state doesn't tax Social Security Benefits.
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@jh50658433 wrote:
Rapid City South Dakota. The state doesn't tax Social Security Benefits.
@jh50658433 Plus there are truckloads a really wonderful people there! Kind, friendly, upbeat and engaged. 🙂
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Rapid City? You'll be moving to the area of the country that I spent my life in. Beautiful area, but it gets very cold and snowy there.
We recently retired to Central Florida. It was my dream spot, but now I have second thoughts about it. We made a mistake in our living arrangements. We bought a cute little mobile home in a senior Mobile Home Park. I had this Vision that it would all be nice, sweet, middle aged people who just wanted to play Bingo and chat. People who are tired of the bickering and one-upping each other after being in the Work World their entire lives Not so. Too many nasty, judgemental, racist, homophobic people in here. I'm sure this doesn't apply to all the senior mobile home communities, but we'll be looking for an apartment soon. I'd rather be around a more diverse crowd. As far as the weather, wildlife, and scenery, it's all perfect.
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We want to live on the road in an RV roaming primarily the west, but mostly traveling around to ride our recumbent trikes on various bike trails and then to compete at various cycling events at senior games. In between we'll travel around to birdwatch.
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