do you plan to retire where you currently live?

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do you plan to retire where you currently live?

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brianmanahan

brianmanahan

Lifer
Sep 2, 2006
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i always planned to retire where i have always lived

but i think that i might do some extended travel in the future and consider other locations

outside the US is even a possibility if i really like a place and met their criteria. i've been to a several other countries and really, really enjoyed them. but would need to try it for an extended time and likely would need sizeable savings to be able to qualify.
 
Platypus

Platypus

Lifer
Apr 26, 2001
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I am considering moving out of the US again the moment it's safe to do so, so likely not.
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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www.anyf.ca
General area yeah but probably not same city, costs of living are too high. My goal is to buy land in an unorganized township within no more than 2 hours from here (don't need permits to build stuff, and has super low taxes) and build. I want to do that before I retire, so that by the time I retire I have everything I need there to live comfortably and that everything has been proven to work year round. Solar system, water supply etc.
 
ponyo

ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
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You don't need that much money to get residency card in another country. Lot of the 2nd and 3rd world countries only require couple hundred thousand dollars to get second passport. Better places like New Zealand, you need a million to get passport.
 
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Exterous

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Jun 20, 2006
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Same house? No. Same general area? Probably. Our current outline is to downsize but stay in the area due to family, friends and familiarity. Then we'll pick somewhere in the world to use as a base and get a rental for up to a few months. Somewhere with good access to transportation to get to a lot of other locations for short trips. Like Vienna. Besides sites in Austria itself its just a few hours by train to places like Bratislava and Budapest. A few hours by car to Munich or Prague. And just a few hours by cheap plane flight to pretty much everywhere else in Europe. Then we'd come home for a bit then move on to somewhere else to use as a base of operations like Auckland or Brisbane (access to Papua New Guinea, Fiji, French Polynesia etc), South Africa (Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Mauritius) etc

That way all our important mail, documents, questions on residency are all the same stable address at home. Friends can check in on the house while we're gone or, if need be, get that important document or delivery for us. No dealing with long term and\or fickle foreign residency requirements. And we haven't found a place we'd want to stay for years. Too many interesting places in the world left to see.
 
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Greenman

Lifer
Oct 15, 1999
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Twenty years ago I'd have said yes, I'll be here till the day I die. Now I'm counting down the days until I can evacuate.
 
BoomerD

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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I am retired where I currently live...when my doctors "retired" me permanently in 2012, we decided that was a great time to gtf out of NorCal...so we moved back to Warshington...just not back to Spokane where we are both from. (No family left...friends from our former lives all moved...or moved on) We decided to give the Bremerton area a try. It was OK, but being a Navy town...it had its problems. ( fucking squids) and in 2018, we had the opportunity to sell our home in a senior only manufactured home community (old folks trailer park for youse southrons) for a tidy profit...we decided to move to the coast where we had RV'd since moving here.
Life in a small (<6000 pop.) tourist/vacation town has its problems...but being 5 minutes from the ocean makes up for a LOT of the negatives.
 
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brianmanahan

brianmanahan

Lifer
Sep 2, 2006
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ponyo said:
You don't need that much money to get residency card in another country. Lot of the 2nd and 3rd world countries only require couple hundred thousand dollars to get second passport. Better places like New Zealand, you need a million to get passport.
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NZ or australia are both awesome. i assume that 1$ million is required to be invested in NZ assets?
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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We are planning to own some kind of property in the Caribbean. Probably Aruba or Grand Cayman. I'd probably prefer Grand Cayman because of the diving but it's really expensive there. Not sure if we will move their permanently but will definitely spend months at a time down there.

Or if we stay in the continental US we'd move down to the middle Keys.
 
ponyo

ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
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My wife and I have talked about it. We're probably going to keep our home and just go live at some other places for 1-3 months at a time. Rentals are cheap and most countries allow you to stay 90 days visa free.
 
Captante

Captante

Lifer
Oct 20, 2003
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Poll needs an option for: "what is this thing you call retire?" or something along those lines.
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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Probably not.
I mean, realistically I'm gonna be murdered by angry white people cuz I dont support their undercover nazi agenda. Or America will collapse.
Or I'll take my own life. But no, I'm not retiring cuz I won't make it that far. But I do like where I live now.
 
Dr. Detroit

Dr. Detroit

Diamond Member
Sep 25, 2004
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Live in Silicon Valley - will be retired in under 2yrs.

I despise this area due to everything but the weather. Great place to make money, terrible place to live. Undecided on where but I know its not here.

I've really sacrificed "living" the past 20yrs in the pursuit of making money so will be looking to adventure out. I have no problem living out of a backpack and drinking cervezas on a Oaxacan beach, maybe try out Van Life in a 4x4 Sprinter or Quigley and venture into the wilderness, maybe somewhere in San Diego county but the CA taxes will kill me, so perhaps dual residences....... Kentucky looks nice!
 
OILFIELDTRASH

OILFIELDTRASH

Lifer
May 13, 2009
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Saying where one lives currently would help the discussion.

I currently am in North Texas about 30 to 40 mins outside of Fort Worth. I probably will retire here as I finally have a piece of land and I'm putting so much money into the property that it wouldn't make sense to start over and do it somewhere else. I still, somewhere in the back of my mind, think about a cabin in the forests and the mountains of east Tennessee or Virginia. Probably die here in the Texas country tbh. It's a big part of who I am and I cant get the same feeling anywhere else I go.
 
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s0me0nesmind1

Lifer
Nov 8, 2012
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Tough to call.

I always tell myself I only live here because of jobs.

But with 2 kids - once they grow up I might move to a smaller house with smaller city to avoid traffic and assholes.

But at the same time... whatever my kids do will likely drive me to do something as well.... Not like I want to live far away from them...
 
jameny5

jameny5

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Aug 7, 2018
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I'm planning on retiring in PA - a hundred dollars is worth $101.83 and a hundred dollars is worth a "measley" $86.43 in New York. You do the math...

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Svnla

Svnla

Lifer
Nov 10, 2003
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Right now it is "iffy" for me. Too many variables to say exactly where.

But I know I will want to live in a nice place with lower cost of living so southern CA big cities and NYC metro and such are out for me. Oversea is not bad because you can have a pretty decent living for a single person for about $1K to $1.5K USD a month.
 
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