where do you want to retire?
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this is a long way off, i know. but we've been paying pretty close attention to dave's 401(k) lately as it has lost more than 20% of our retirement savings in the last few months, and my mind is on retirement. i think realistically we'll probably want to retire where we lived, so that we're close to our family and friends that we've made during our lives together. but what i really want is to live somewhere really cool, at least for a little while. i probably won't want the same things when i'm 65, but for now, i'd love to live somewhere overseas. i don't imagine that we'll travel much (or at all) while we're still young, so i would love the chance to just leave everything behind and live in italy for a while.
we could study the language, live like locals, and really see the other side of the world. we could even work a little and take long weekends and ride the trains all over the country. we could stay for six months or a year, and then head somewhere new, like london or paris, or even ireland. my friend lynette is having some amazing experiences overseas, first in chile and now in singapore. i have another friend john who is currently living in australia. i think those experiences will be so invaluable to them and their kids, and i would love to be able to provide that for my kids--not just a visit, but a whole new way of life. i find myself longing for this every time i talk to lynette (online) or read a post about something new she's doing. i know i can't do it, at least for now, so i'm dreaming about what we can do together when we're old and gray. assuming we still want to.
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where do you want to live when you retire?
17 February 2009
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you never know what is going to happen! not in my wildest dreams would i have thought i'd being living overseas. as for retirement, who knows. probably wherever my kids and grandkids are.
Oh my gosh! That looks like a city that I visited in Italy!!! I miss that place. I want to live by family AND by the beach when I retire...But there has to be mountains too and warmth...
I want to retire in SLC, but I want to spend some time living in New Zealand and Brisbane. Italy looks beautiful. I hope you make it.
I want to retire in La Luz, NM, on my in-laws property - they are in the process of creating an organic you-pick orchard, getting layer chicks, and learning about gardening to feed themselves - all stuff I want to do WITH THEM, and continue on once they are gone. So for my retirement, I guess I visualize not really NOT working, but working on stuff I love and that is important to me, on my own schedule. :-) That is a big reason why we want to move back to NM - to start living the life we dream about.
I would love to live overseas, too; Ireland, Italy, Australia, New Zealand. Hubby and I are semi-retired so we may try a house-swap first, perhaps as soon as next year!
Deborah at Webajeb
I want to retire wherever we can be close to our kids, but I do want to travel A LOT! All over the world!
whenever i find a place that is home, that is where i want to retire. not too sure where that is yet. but hopefully one day i will find it. until then i wouldn't mind traveling all of the world to find it!
midway, and I have to say after watching househunters international in italy the housing there is abysmal fyi
sad, ellen. maybe we'll be super rich and can just stay in fancy places?
we have talked about this quite a bit. We want someplace warm but not deathly hot and no snow and close to family. I don't know if there is such a place.
If we ever get to retire, I think I would just want to be somewhere that is home, and be able to have my family around me.
On a beach. Not sure which one yet. Preferable one that doesn't get a tsunami.
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