1) realistically

2) ideal dream scenario

3) do your number 1 & number 2 share any common features?

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moron:

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"my dream retirement (currently...) is to live on the side of a forested mountain that overlooks a stream, with no one else in sight."

Got me wondering what other peoples thoughts were.

7/18/2010 2:51:39 AM

right here
little bitty one/two room cabin with a five hundred horsepower a/c unit. and nerf wars! i'll have nerf wars at my place and the winner gets to rummage through the losers' medicine cabinets

7/18/2010 4:55:06 AM

realistically: I'm 65-70 and have finally got enough in reserves and stocks or whatever to retire and live within whatever means that gives me. I'm probably also dead.

ideal dream scenario: tomorrow i win the lottery. i pay off all my debt with millions upon millions to spare.

3)nope.

7/18/2010 5:02:21 AM

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"realistically: I'm 65-70 and have finally got enough in reserves and stocks or whatever to retire and live within whatever means that gives me. I'm probably also dead. ideal dream scenario: tomorrow i win the lottery. i pay off all my debt with millions upon millions to spare. 3)nope."

by where i meant more in locational terms rather than how much money you think you'll have/want to have. when you're 70 and dead, is there a specific location you have in mind for that? but feel free to include what you'll be doing in that location/why you picked it.

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7/18/2010 5:06:00 AM

haha oops.

1) probably whatever city I end up getting "the job" in. I'd say there's a 90% chance it's in the charlotte area

2) either the NC or SC coast.

7/18/2010 5:09:02 AM

1) near the coast of NC

2) i run a bait and tackle shop near the coast of NC. it's the type of place where regular folks drop in on their way to work for a cup of coffee and to talk fishing and stuff. i make just enough money running the shop to fund my own personal fishing.

3) obviously, yes

7/18/2010 5:22:41 AM

1. Outer Banks

2. Florida Keys. Preferably, Key Largo.

7/18/2010 5:24:53 AM

few acres(3-6) of land back off the road, far enough back that you can't see it from the road but not so far that you don't get the inclining that someone lives back there

Forested land, with at least a good strong stream or maybe small river, I want to clear some of the forest and grow a couple of crops(tomatos, peppers, peas, beans, squash, maybe a pear tree or a couple of peach trees if i'm in the right area) nothing too fancy. I want to have the house built into the land

something like

oh yeah and a structure roughly the size of a shipping container buried that I'd use for a workshop for experiments and projects

Ideally it would all be powered by an array of radioisotope thermal generators and/or solar

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7/18/2010 7:11:49 AM

1) Saipan unless the property rates skyrocket in the next 30 years

2) Saipan

7/18/2010 7:32:42 AM

realistically: somewhere in the carolinas, midwayish between mountains and sea

ideally: villa & vinyard on the ligurian coast of italy.

and no, there's not really much overlap between the two

7/18/2010 8:56:52 AM

realistically: depends. the super boring option would be out in NW nash county on a big piece of property where i can't see my neighbors. a better option while staying in NC would be in the mountains somewhere, similar piece of property...although i don't handle the windy mtn roads too well. the best, sorta realistic option, is in whitefish, mt.

dream: 100+ acres in MT, outside of the whitefish/kalispell area. dairy cows that i don't have to raise but can pretend that i do (i don't even know that raising cows there is possible, the harsh winters make me think not). an animal rescue kinda thing in the "backyard", separate from the house, set up kinda like the wake spca. horses, ones you ride and a couple of big draft horses (belgian, clydesdale). some mini goats, maybe a couple of sheep. all of these (except for companion animals) managed mainly by someone else i'm paying, so i can just play. big pond/small lake for fishing & swimming. nice house, but not huge, tons of storage, big conditioned garage for chris. gun range.

common factors: outside of city limits, can't see neighbors, AWAY FROM PEOPLE

7/18/2010 9:10:00 AM

brazil/europe
brazil/europe

7/18/2010 9:31:18 AM

1) in a rest home/retirement center near where ever my sister or my hypothetical future kids are living at the time.

2) some where warm.

3) no. honestly, I don't think retirement is going to be a financially viable option for me, so I've never given it much thought

7/18/2010 10:53:58 AM

1) out west somewhere where the grandchildren are.

2) out of an rv for months/years at a time. Campground host, tour guides, or just as visitors ourselves. Where depends on where else we have stayed or still want too see.


3) And the we refers to the wife and i. Out west or traveling is a good happy medium.

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7/18/2010 11:04:12 AM

1. jewish, so you know, Tampa Florida.

2.Costa Rica

7/18/2010 11:12:00 AM

1) Boone or Raleigh

2) Homes in Blowing Rock, Somewhere in the tropics, and Ireland.

7/18/2010 12:05:10 PM

Quote :

"my dream retirement (currently...) is to live on the side of a forested mountain that overlooks a stream, with no one else in sight."

Also, that earthship a few posts up is jawsome.

7/18/2010 12:09:39 PM

interesting question, i've never really thought about what my retirement goals are, location-wise.

after seeing my parents' reaction to becoming grandparents, i could see myself trying to stay near my future grandkids.

as far as a place where i would enjoy life in the sense of escaping from pre-retirement responsibilities and pressures, i really have no idea


in fact, after thinking about it a few minutes, i don't think the typical response of some secluded location, with a "simpler" life appeals to me at all. i'd probably just stay where i live, and vacation every now and then to those types of places

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7/18/2010 12:59:01 PM

1) NC coast or Charleston (already have home(s) on NC coast so very likely)

2) Prague or Amsterdam (could be just because I got back from Europe and loved those cities)

3) 1st is more realistic b/c I don't speak Dutch or good Czech and if I get married I'm sure our priorities will change and we'll want to be wherever our shit-head, delinquent children will be

7/18/2010 2:55:42 PM

1 - I'd like to retire either to the southwest US or to Brazil.

2 - no reason to think I won't. It's more a question of whether I'm able to retire in my 50s or 60s.

7/18/2010 3:16:11 PM

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"1) realistically 2) ideal dream scenario 3) do your number 1 & number 2 share any common features?"

1) Probably in or near a medium to large sized city in on the east coast somewhere from NC up to MA west coast between CA, OR, or WA... places where my husband and I are both likely to find work.

2) I love Boston, but its a bit cold in the winter, maybe with half a century of global warming and it'll be perfect. A nice beach near Anaheim could be nice. I've never been to Hawaii but always wanted to, so that might be an option. I'd love to do a month in Spain, but I don't think my Spanish is strong enough to get me by for retirement. I don't know a lot about Puerto Rico, but I've certainly scene beautiful places there, and in places like New Zealand. Ideally somewhere not too cold.

3) I grew up in a small, mountain adjacent, town in western NC. So for retirement I might want to mix it up a bit with either a city or a beach. So I think I can find something that meets a lot of what I'm looking for.


If I'm going for ideal it'd probably be in either the lighter orange (like NC not the dark orange like Florida), the brown which is probably best for me, or the yellow. Anaheim, CA seems to be right in that ideal, just a little cooler than NC but not by much in the brown area on the map, and near a beach, near enough to a big city, and all that and according to wikipedia "Anaheim ranks as one of the safest cities of its size in the nation."

Once you narrow down the world by language barriers, temperatures, and job availability it really makes the viable options easy to spot.

7/18/2010 7:11:09 PM

1) close to family (kids, grandkids, etc.)

2) close to family (kids, grandkids, etc.)

3) ...

7/18/2010 7:14:52 PM

^okay, so maybe the better question for you is...

1) where do you want to raise your kids (realistically)

2) where do you want to raise your kids (after winning a small lottery)

3) what, if anything, do these locations have in common

And being able to have family & friends visit would make me be a little more likely, even in the dream scenario, not move somewhere that would mean they'd need a passport to come visit.

7/18/2010 7:46:44 PM

I really don't know.

7/18/2010 7:47:14 PM

^do you prefer beaches, mountains, hills, small towns, big cities, something in between, warm weather, cool weather, are there certain locations that tend to offer more jobs/advancement in your particular field, do you like to ski, do you like to swim, do you like to hike, are you cool with public transit or do you want to use a car to get around for the part, do you have a sig other & what would work for them, do you speak any other languages, how important is proximity to a Bojangles, where do your friends & family lived, have you ever fallen in love with a place you vacationed or visited?

answering some of those questions might get you started

7/18/2010 7:58:19 PM

Meh. I'm 22. Who even knows if I will live that long?

7/18/2010 8:41:14 PM

number 2 has very little to do with reality, just dreaming

7/18/2010 8:45:45 PM

the day i stop working is the day they put me in the ground

7/18/2010 8:46:31 PM

^well, given the options of working locations, where would u select to work if you could have your job happen in that region?

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7/18/2010 10:39:59 PM

For those having trouble, to help you narrow it down, which of these seems the most appealing?

7/18/2010 10:57:34 PM

1) sweden

2) sweden




3) sweden

7/18/2010 10:59:01 PM

Perhaps I should be asking people to include a sample picture of their ideal location, or something similar to it (preferably not massive pics).

^Got one of Sweden showing the kind of region you'd like to live in?

7/18/2010 11:01:37 PM

7/18/2010 11:12:02 PM

Quote :

"brazil/europe brazil/europe "

7/18/2010 11:14:32 PM

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"^okay, so maybe the better question for you is... 1) where do you want to raise your kids (realistically) 2) where do you want to raise your kids (after winning a small lottery) 3) what, if anything, do these locations have in common And being able to have family & friends visit would make me be a little more likely, even in the dream scenario, not move somewhere that would mean they'd need a passport to come visit."

unfortunately, my answer won't be any more exciting in that context.

1) here -- around the triangle

2) i'd still stay around here

3) the common denominator is family (and to a slightly lesser extent, friends). My wife and I both have our whole families in the area, as well as all of our friends, and for me what matters is not where I am, but who I'm with. All of these exotic locations that people mention would quickly lose their novelty for me. I love traveling and visiting said places, but the mystique would disappear if I actually lived there. I'm pretty comfortable with the fact that life is mostly pretty mundane, and trying to keep some constant level of excitement is an exercise in futility.

I realize that not everyone has such a close-knit family situation, and what I find to be ideal is repulsive to others.

7/18/2010 11:49:48 PM

^fair enough.

for those who want to stay where you grew up, how about, where would you like to own a summer/winter home get away where you could spend 2 or 3 months & take your kids with you if you wanted, but still primarily live near family.

7/19/2010 8:43:05 PM

7/19/2010 8:45:13 PM