Where do you want to retire???

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You can retire to Arizona where…

1. You are willing to park three blocks away from your house because you found shade.
2. You've experienced condensation on your rear-end from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
3. You can drive for four hours in one direction and never leave town.
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door at 500 degrees.
6. The four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

-OR-

You can retire to California where…

1. You make over $450,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway
3. You know how to eat an artichoke.
4. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
5. The four seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud and Drought.

-OR-

You can retire to New York City where…

1 You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
3. You think Central Park is "nature.”
4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multilingual.
5. You've worn out a car horn. (IF you have a car.)
6. You think eye contact is an act of aggression

-OR-

You can retire to Minnesota where…

1. You only have three spices: salt, pepper and ketchup
2. Halloween costumes have to fit over parkas.
3. You have seventeen recipes for casserole.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road repair.

-OR-

You can retire to The Deep South where.

1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2 "Y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural.
3. "He needed killin " is a valid defense.
4. Everyone has two first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Joe Bob, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc.
5. Everything is either: "in yonder," "over yonder" or "out yonder. ”
6. You can say anything about anyone, as long as you say "Bless his heart” at the end!

-OR-

You can move to Colorado where…

1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home, so he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail .

-OR-

You can retire to Nebraska or Kansas where…

1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is three cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end every sentence with a preposition; "Where's my coat at?”

-OR-

FINALLY you can retire to Florida where…

1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind - even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent cardiologist, dermatologist, proctologist, podiatrist, or orthopedist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you often appear to be driven by headless people.


Thought I better add, this is meant as HUMOR!!! :D
 
We retired to Florida, within 40 miles of the place we were born. Our current retirement home is the house we built in the mid 1970's. No, no, no! Not South Florida. Not central Fla but the far western tip of the state known as the Panhandle. We are closer to Mobile Alabama than we are to the Florida State Capitol
 
Just can’t find better weather than where I’m living. Almost added the “at”. How many of you living in most of the places mentioned (Florida is the exception ) went to the beach earlier this month? Without leaving the state where you reside.
 
florida seasons.....
hurricane season, clean up season, rebuild season, sink hole season.
traffic jams are caused mostly by funeral motorcades.
 
I "retired" to the same place I've lived all my life. I complain about mud in the spring, rain in April, heat in August, rain again in October, and ice/snow in January but it's easier than moving to some other place where the complaints are only marginally different.
I have no idea what "real retirement" is like since I still have all the work I can handle right outside my back door. Sometimes I envy those who toss the keys on the desk and walk away into "never go back retirement". Most of the time I pity those folks who now have nothing to do but watch themselves get older.
 
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Loved the deep South one. It is spot on. We live in Rock Hill, SC best place ever.
 
my grandmother ran a farm. my mother worked it during ww2.
g-mom told my mom night time stories how the animals would talk to the farmers.
it went like this....

the rooster would say in the morning:
"work-work-work, for NOTH...ing!"

and the geese would hiss......:
"your quite right your quite right youre quite right."

when mom told me these stories, I didn't understand them.
but since having a farm in mo, it all makes sense now.
 
We aren’t retired yet, but when we do, my wife and I plan on staying right here in Texas. Not Dallas though, property tax and school tax are too high. We did buy some land out in the country and have ideas about building a house.
 
bobski said:
florida seasons.....
hurricane season, clean up season, rebuild season, sink hole season.
traffic jams are caused mostly by funeral motorcades.


You left out traffic jams caused by SNOWBIRDS in the late Fall and Winter Months and those traffic jams INCLUDE checkout lines in the grocery stores no matter what brand.
 
Kansas weather:
Hot and windy
Wet and windy
Cold and windy
Dry and windy

And for traffic---I can pull up to Main Street from a cross street, no traffic light, and wait no longer than 30 seconds before being able to make a left turn.
 
im not telling anyone where im retiring to. I don't want anyone to find out and follow me to the good deal and ruin it.
I can say this, youre really retired when the only way to get to the hospital in time if injured, is by chopper.
its a big business in the Midwest.
you join and pay memberships!
 
I bought my farm years ago, raised horses, goats, chickens , rheas, Shetland sheep, llamas, ducks, dogs and cats! Now I raise nothing. I have one dog and one cat. More deer, woodcock, and the usual stray turkey, squirrel, raccoon, possum, skunk and Armadillo. Retired means I don’t HAVE to do anything, but pick up a 1099 job now and then for mad money. The weather doesn’t matter, I have worked in the Arctic, and the desert. I adapt!
gramps
 
Colonialgirl said:
Jimbo357mag said:
Florida where it is too hot to go outside for about half the year. :D :D

Jimbo; That's ONLY in South Florida !!

Fort Walton Beach isn’t south Florida. But when I was stationed there spring break resulted in some pretty crazy crowds. Of course for the single GI’s it was a happy hunting ground.
 
Hi...
I retired 2-1/2 years ago right here in southcentral Pennsylvania where I have lived my entire life.
When it is too hot, I stay in the air conditioned house. When it's too cold, I stay in the warm house. When it's raining, I stay in the dry house. When it's snowy and icy, I stay inside.

When it's nice outside in the spring and summer, I work in the yard and garden when I feel like it. When something needs maintenance or repaired, I do it when I feel like it.

I run the dogs four or five times a day on my own property.
When I feel like it, I go to one of the gun clubs where I have memberships and shoot my guns and visit with other shooters.
I spend a lot of time in my reloading room two or three days a week. I do a lot of studying military history(WWII) and paleontology online and in my library/den/study.

I worked for almost 46 years...made a fairly decent living and I only do what I want to do now. I earned it and I am thoroughly enjoying my retirement.
The ridiculous shutdowns forced on us by the government over this Wuhan flu have kept me from being able to travel to museums and Knob Creek this year and that makes me angry at my government.

I have zero intention of ever working for anybody other than myself for the rest of my life.
 
I worked, toured or lived in probably 85 % of the country. We ended up in Cedar City SW Utah. Probably cheap as anywhere. Mesquite Az for casino fun and eats 1 1/2 hour away. We live at 5,500 ft. Want warmer drive 40 miles south to St. George where no matter what time of the year it`s always 15 degrees hotter. Want cooler? drive 30 miles up the mountain to the ski areas. Has a good hospital and everything else you need. A few miles out of town mostly BLM and ATV trails. Cedar Breaks, Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks a short drive. Mixture of tourists, sheepherders, cowboys, Indians and polygamists'.
Now I am bed ridden so it dont much matter.
 
Carrij said:
Say what you want about the south; how many do you think retire and move north?

What I will say about the South is that a day with anything under 95% humidity is considered a low humidity day. I was stationed at three different AF bases in the South, so I know about humidity.
 
Fox Mike said:
Given the opportunity we agree it would be somewhere north of Tucson.
North is fine. South is dangerous. You get more than half way to the border and the
coyotes come by (smuggling illegals) with guns and demand food and water.
Usually only happens once or twice. After the owner gets infrared cameras, any
stranger coming on the property after dark gets to dodge hot lead.
 
Wife and I just retired early, settling in Northwest Michigan. We love it here. The cold weather doesn't bother us a bit.

Things I've learned from almost 4 months of retirement:

- I rarely leave my rural acreage.
- I'm very busy every day and collapse at the day's end.
- I don't miss my last employer but DO miss the Army.
- I don't miss people.
 
To retire comfortably I need to win the lotto so I can:

Upgrade the place here to Colorado insulation standards (WAY more than used
here). Live here from November to March.

Get a place in Hawaii for April, May, September and October (nice weather and
a LOT less toooooorists).

Get a place in/near Olathe CO, for June, July and August. Great weather, nice
people, and Olathe corn for ten cents per ear. 8)
 
Wow........ My wife and I were just talking about this..... Very complicated issue.

I currently live in the socialist state of Washington. The politics and liberal attitudes are nearly unbearable. Living across the river from Portland, Oregon doesn't help in that regard.

A friend lives year around in Arizona after living in Washington most of his life. When we are indoors because of winter rain, his weather is pleasant enough. However for 8-9 months out of the year it would be intolerable to us because of the heat.

I have lots of family in the Fargo area of North Dakota. Winters are an issue, but politics are more to my liking. So far this may be our best option, although my brother lives in Blairsville, Georgia and weather seems tolerable as is the LOCAL political scene.

Because my Son's, other Brothers and a Grandson live here along with my wife's surviving family, this may be where we stay.... Tough decisions going forward. I sure want out of the leftist Pacific Northwest. We shall see.

Dave
 
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