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What are your retirement plans?

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Slow travel. We're starting to compile a list of places where we'd want to stay a 1-3 months. Ideally a place within easy travel distance to other cool and interesting places. I'm also a big "what's around that corner or just over that hill" so someplace I can spend a day just wandering off the beaten path (sometimes quite literally in the hills or mountains)

Inital list so far:
Vienna
Brussels
Queenstown NZ
Ireland
Scotland

Norway and SE Asian will almost certainly make the list but we haven't been there yet. Washington coastline, Cinque Terre, and the UP Michigan would likely get some time as well but maybe not a month.
 
Exterous said:
Slow travel. We're starting to compile a list of places where we'd want to stay a 1-3 months. Ideally a place within easy travel distance to other cool and interesting places. I'm also a big "what's around that corner or just over that hill" so someplace I can spend a day just wandering off the beaten path (sometimes quite literally in the hills or mountains)

Inital list so far:
Vienna
Brussels
Queenstown NZ
Ireland
Scotland

Norway and SE Asian will almost certainly make the list but we haven't been there yet. Washington coastline, Cinque Terre, and the UP Michigan would likely get some time as well but maybe not a month.
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Slow travel is great. I like to stay a minimum of 3 to 4 days in one town and then move to the next town (I think that is far better than the "see all of Europe in 7 days tour" where if you blink you miss a whole country). It would be better to have the time to do a couple weeks instead of just 3/4 days and really get to know the location, but as I still work, that will have to do.

That said, 1 to 3 months in Queenstown might just bankrupt you. Lovely area but prices are insane for any activity. I'd rather do 1 month in that area and then 1 month in the north island. Be sure to take at least a long week exploring the sounds and fjords on the far south west coast by boat.

I think you are shortchanging South Africa in your list.
 
BoomerD said:
The area around Driggs is nice in the summer...great fishing and hunting later in the year...but nasty cold in the winter....as well as infested with Mormons.
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Yeah, mrs Ned has made it quite clear that we can stay there until the first of the year, but anything longer than that into the cold months will be a “marriage ending event”
 
Exterous said:
Slow travel. We're starting to compile a list of places where we'd want to stay a 1-3 months. Ideally a place within easy travel distance to other cool and interesting places. I'm also a big "what's around that corner or just over that hill" so someplace I can spend a day just wandering off the beaten path (sometimes quite literally in the hills or mountains)

Inital list so far:
Vienna
Brussels
Queenstown NZ
Ireland
Scotland

Norway and SE Asian will almost certainly make the list but we haven't been there yet. Washington coastline, Cinque Terre, and the UP Michigan would likely get some time as well but maybe not a month.
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You should look up “waypoint of view” on YouTube. It’s a travel vlog that mrs Ned and I have really enjoyed. You might get some ideas from it
 
NuclearNed said:
we looked at the front range & Estes park for properties before we decided on Idaho. That’s a great area - your retirement dream sounds really nice
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if you ever want to visit, we have a nice guest suite. just about a mile from carter lake. 30 min to boulder, 40 to Estes park and RMNP. I would even climb longs peak with you!
 
Exterous said:
Slow travel. We're starting to compile a list of places where we'd want to stay a 1-3 months. Ideally a place within easy travel distance to other cool and interesting places. I'm also a big "what's around that corner or just over that hill" so someplace I can spend a day just wandering off the beaten path (sometimes quite literally in the hills or mountains)

Inital list so far:
Vienna
Brussels
Queenstown NZ
Ireland
Scotland

Norway and SE Asian will almost certainly make the list but we haven't been there yet. Washington coastline, Cinque Terre, and the UP Michigan would likely get some time as well but maybe not a month.
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that sounds good also. we love to take a few weeks off and go someplace. stay at an airbnb home stay, hang out the the locals, make dinner with the family, etc. I loved Hanoi and Luang Prabang, Laos. my wife was totally overwhelmed in Hanoi because of its density in the old quarter. I would love to go back and explore more of Vietnam. we like to rent an apartment in Paris for a week or 2 as well. just relax and live like a Parisian, minus the smokes. there is nothing like a fly in fishing lodge in far northern Ontario as well.
 
Funny this thread popped up today as my wife and had our annual meeting with our financial advisor today.
We are still young, I'm 41 and she is 40 so we are still in the saving stages not necessarily in the "what are we going to do once that time comes" stage.

We do have a rough idea though and most of it involves traveling part of the year; whether it be in the US or overseas is still up in the air but I imagine it will be a combination of both. Other than that it's till to early to tell.
I do know we have no desire to homestead in the middle of nowhere or start a hobby farm. To much like work and would limit our ability to decide to just up and go somewhere but yeah for right it just involves mostly travel.
 
I set up my Betterment account with the goal of retiring at 55, assuming something might come along to make that necessary. It looks like I'll have to start paying into long-term care for my parents, so that may have to be delayed a little.
 
My retirement plans? LOL, after over six years fighting metastatic cancer GoFundme is probably my plan. A huge chunk of my retirement savings went to cover costs during times I have been too ill to work. Heck at this point I thinkI have about 8 hours of vacation/ sick time. I literally drag myself to work most days.

I have been fortunate to receive immunotherapy but it sure isn’t without side effect. My energy level is crap, my thyroid is shot, I get weird rashes, joint pain, muscle cramps that make me want to scream….it does beat being dead though ….
 
I'll probably die with my boots on. Plans lead to disappointment, so I've just winged it my whole life. I don't see that changing in the future. I have a vague notion of buying a woodlot somewhere to play on if the price is right, but that "plan" isn't any firmer than my dinner decision for Oct 12 2024.
 
I'm thinking I'll sell a kidney, buy a real nice tent and move in under the bridge near by. For entertainment, I'm torn between meth and opioid's. I'll have to evaluate the market at that time to decide.
 
brianmanahan said:
i dreamed of golfing every day when i retire

but i seem to have inherited my grandpa's back problems, so i don't even play anymore and haven't hit 40 yet
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I thought you were in the final stages of some degenerative illness you got from a tick?
If you need a kidney in a few years look me up, I'll be having an auction.
 
Greenman said:
I thought you were in the final stages of some degenerative illness you got from a tick?
If you need a kidney in a few years look me up, I'll be having an auction.
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oh no the tick is a new thing haha

the back started acting up about 1.5 years ago

i think the tick bite might actually be fine. i keep feeling like i'm getting bit all over my body, but that could just be mental
 
bbhaag said:
Congrats man! What do you do now that you're retired? Travel, gardening, home improvement, ect or a little bit of everything?
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Initially, stayed home (COVID) and sold our house. We are now in Ohio (from California) closing on a house. Once we get settled in, we plan to check out the eastern seaboard.
 
Greenman said:
I'm thinking I'll sell a kidney, buy a real nice tent and move in under the bridge near by. For entertainment, I'm torn between meth and opioid's. I'll have to evaluate the market at that time to decide.
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Ever consider moving to Indianapolis? Cheez may like a roommate.

🙂
 
I thought I would retire when I hit $1.5M of investable assets and that number/goal only increased as my annual compensation ballooned. How do you walk away?

So, now the goal is to retire next year in my mid 40's and try my hand at who knows what? All I've ever done is work, whether it be HS jobs, Army, college internships/part time jobs, or full time professional jobs since University graduation. 6-weeks PTO and I'm lucky to get two 1-week vacations in a year and haven't had a two week consecutive vacation since HS summer or thereabouts.

I left my last job 3.5yrs ago to cash out 320hrs PTO and started the new job 2-days later and now I'm sitting at the 300hr max.

I'm great at work - I excel at it, I'm a great saver, I have modest/frugal tastes and spend like 10% of my take home. Based on the 4% rule I should have retired a decade ago, but how do you walk away? I need/want to take some extended time off but work might suck me back in after a year or so off.

I'm not sure I want to own anything - the two of us can just travel every 3-6 months. But a home base would be nice.
I'd like to be a campground host, I like to talk to people and educate them while answering questions. I have a voracious appetite for useless information.
I love the outdoors so lots of hiking and camping out west is in my future. I'd like to take up Kite boarding with the folks on the Silver Strand.
I have no hobbies other than researching all the cool shit I'd like to do and places I'd like to travel to. Zero desire to hang out in Paris or London, but Oaxaca, Lagos, 4-Corners and the Gulf Coast (SPI to Florida) seems like places I want to spend significant time.
I thought about opening a tap-room, I love beer and once again I like talking to people.

So yeah, I have no idea - I just need to take some time off and NOT work for a while and come up with a plan.
 
Retired military and in April I will retire again with a paid company pension, 401K and Social Security which starts next month.

I don't need or want to travel overseas as I did plenty in the Military and with the Company I currently work for...

My home will be fully paid for before I retire in April and I have no debts, just living expenses. I plan on working at home on projects that we have put off too long and get some fishing time with the old lady.

Life is good.
 
Got a family home on an island in the Mediterranean. Nothing fancy but plenty enough, and a yard with about 12 trees on it, lemon, orange, olive, tangerine, avocado and a grapevine. Gonna move there and sell shish kebab on the beach and watch the world burn on my TV.
 
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Either get rich enough to retire somewhere near Santa Barbara working on my dissertation that JoJo is the equivalent of Mendelssohn, or I go red squirrely and buy some big ass lot in Ohio, Kentucky, Arizona and live like an Asian hillbilly with a keen nerdy intellect.
 
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