Originally Posted By friendofdd As we all know, when we hit retirement age we come face to face with the fact that it may be time to relocate. The big question is: where to? Here are some tips. You can live in Phoenix, Arizona where..... 1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade. 2. You can open and drive your car without touching the car door or the steering wheel. 3. You've experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the toilet bowl. 4. You would give anything to be able to splash cold water on your face. 5. You can attend any function wearing shorts and a tank top. 6. "Dress Code" is meaningless at high schools and universities. Picture lingerie ads. 7. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town. 8. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food. 9. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!! 10. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door. You can Live in California where... 1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house. 2 The high school quarterback calls a time-out to answer his cell phone. 3. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway. 4. You know how to eat an artichoke. 5. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party. 6. 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. You can Live in New York City where... 1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan. 2. You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. 3. 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. 4. You think Central Park is "nature," 5. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual. 6. You've worn out a car horn. 7. You think eye contact is an act of aggression. You can Live in Maine where... 1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco. 2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas. 3. You have more than one recipe for moose. 4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons. 5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction. You can Live in 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. After five years you still hear, "You ain't from ' round here, are Ya?" 4. "He needed killin' " is a valid defense. 5. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Sue, Betty Jean, MARY BETH, etc. You can live in 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 and 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. You can live in the Midwest where... 1. You've never meet any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name. 2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor. 3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day. 4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?" 5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!" AND, You can live in 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 dermatologist. 4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state. 5. Cars in front of you are often driven by headless people
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Originally Posted By JazzCat The mid-west sounds heavenly except for the tornados! Either that or Leisure World!
Originally Posted By RoadTrip The mid-west for me... there is nowhere I'd rather live than where I am right now. However... I would plan to rent an RV and spend January, February and March at the Fort Wilderness Campground every year.
Originally Posted By markedward You might want to consider Jackson Hole, Wyoming if you think Real estate in California just isn't expensive enough Elk antlers are essential to all DIY projects You think being four hours from Salt Lake City qualifies as being close to a major airport Once you put on snow chains or snow tires, you want to be able to leave them on for a while You love the idea of living near natural wonders, great restaurants, and unscale shops that you never visit because "who wants to fight all those tourists?"
Originally Posted By disneydad109 The way you know to run like hell in the old south is when someone yells "Hey Y'all watch this!!" most often drinking fits in some how The best place to live is North Carolina but PLEASE, NO MORE YANKEES ! and no we don't care how you did it where you come from
Originally Posted By JazzCat What the heck?!?!?!? Why on earth is Jackson Hole, WY so expensive? I looked it up on realtor.com and real estate is outrageous!
Originally Posted By avromark <<However... I would plan to rent an RV and spend January, February and March at the Fort Wilderness Campground every year.>> Purchase it, our Class C was just over 60k, we bought from a dealer that's no frills (no showroom, all products outside, no huge RV supply store, gravel parking lot), a similar but slightly nicer RV at the all the frills dealer literally down the road, listed for 110k Remember it pays to shop around, and the mark-up is nice and padded.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <<6. 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. >> LOL! I never realized it before but I did that ALL the time when I lived down there. Too funny. When we retire <sigh> DH wants to be a park ranger and I want to retire to Disneyland so going home to Cali is a definite option for us. We'll see....
Originally Posted By xrayvision I choose the Snowbird Lifestyle - 1/2 time in Canada and 1/2 time in the tropics (Florida, Vegas, Jamaica or someplace warm).
Originally Posted By disney pete 1 Orlando 2 clearwater 3 california failing that somewhere nice and sunny
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess I want to retire either in the midwest or on the east coast somewhere, in a small town, where I have a cozy, beautiful home and can bake cookies all day and experience actual WEATHER. I am so over California! (However I wouldn't want to be younger and have to go out in it each day. Just sitting by the fireplace would work for me -- along with hiring someone to shovel the snow!)
Originally Posted By mele I like living here in WA. I don't really want to move anywhere else. I'd like to go on a lot of extended vacations. ;-) I hope I live within a few hours drive of my children. I'd consider moving away if they did. (But only if they wanted me to. LOL)
Originally Posted By smeeeko back home to Berkeley,CA (specifically North Berkeley so we can walk to breakie on Sundays and get one of those overpriced Victorians.. or maybe a Craftsman and have lots of cats) or Orlando.. but then WDW might end up to be like DLR is for me now.. not vacation. ;P
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom The plan is to retire in Western North Carolina. I would really really like to have an RV and winter at Ft Wilderness.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I must be a Californian because I know how to eat an artichoke (yummmmm) My current retirement plan is to be a WDW CM.
Originally Posted By avromark I like artichoke on pizza and I only lived a year in California... Florida is not like California. No one wants to retire to Alaska?
