Retirement/relocation destination?

I've basically told the wife, "It's your call from now on. If you want to move to X, and you can find a full time job there with benefits while I'm on Medicare, then we'll move to X."

 

The biggest reason my wife and I are setting up for retirement is
1. She manages our money super well.
2. We have worked hard our whole lives to get to this point.
3. We live super cheaply compared to most just because we are fairly low key and low maintenance.
D. She manages our money super well.

 

WFW here, too.

 

About the only thing keeping me working now is a four-day week and $32/month for health insurance.

 

I subscribe to a forum called early-retirement.org. It has great insights into many issues for older people (and some not so old) who are embarking on a post-career life.

 

I’ll have to check that out — thanks, Mr. G!

Not directly related to this thread, but our daughter has spent the past year-plus working as a paralegal at an estate planning law firm, and she has been gently needling us about our lack of a will or trust.

We certainly don’t have much of value to pass on to our two children, other than our house, but my thought that the kids automatically inherit our assets when we both die is not correct.

 

If I didn't currently have the best job of my work career, I would have done what was necessary to walk out at 66 and start pulling SS. I would have had no qualms about doing that.

But this work fits my skill set so well, and my two bosses are so great, I doubt I'll have any trouble staying in this to 70.

 

As soon as we had our second (and final) child, my wife and I decided our Christmas present to each other was to go to a lawyer and get everything drawn up for end-of-life situations, like wills, living wills, all of that stuff. Felt like a weird "gift" at the time, but I know having that done, and updating it as needed along the way, is really something that should be a gift to our kids when that time comes.

 

I always crack up when people complain about that, even though I readily admit I wish Charlottesville had been frozen in amber in May 2003. It's like, man, you (the royal you, not you specifically) graduated from college in the 80s! It would be a huge problem if it HADN'T changed a ton.

 

Between my wife, mom, and I, everything we have from bank/financial accounts to property deeds to automobile titles has two names on it. They all say OR, not and. That way, when the inevitable happens, a survivor shouldn't have to jump through any hoops.
When my dad died, the only thing that didn't have two names on it was some stock certificates. They just had his, and he no longer had a brokerage account. We're talking old school paper certificates he had stashed away. It was a pain to get them transferred over.