Retirement/relocation destination?

That's exactly what I'm doing ... even if I'm not close to being retired. It has its charms, the novelty also wears off after a while. The key is not taking things that are cool - wider variety of restaurants, cultural opportunities - for granted. Saw an art house movie weekend before last. That shit was definitely not happening in my previous locale.

 

May I interest you in a house within walking distance to great smallmouth fishing and only 15 minutes from the Walton Arts Center, the university and downtown Fayetteville? For 295k?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/...ssage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

 

"Make your damn free throws!"

Also, if you get season tickets but can't make all the games, you can make good $$$ selling to now-Big Ten fans on the West Coast who want to see football games on all the B1G campuses.

 

Shoot, I went back to Kennesaw State last Friday for the first time since Graduation Day 2006. I knew enrollment had shot up, but I attributed most of that to them merging with Southern Poly a few exits down in Marietta.

Nuh uh.

I got turned around on a road system that wasn’t there before. I kept passing buildings that weren’t there before. When I got parked, it turned out I was on the exact opposite side of campus from where I thought I was.

I stumbled around for several minutes unable to get my bearings before thankfully finding a campus map sign, which is how I learned I was on the north end of campus. There was a small cluster of buildings in the center of the map which I finally recognized as “my” campus. Beyond that were new buildings flanking it in three directions. No longer can one stand on the campus green and see the Waffle House sign at Exit 271.

The bookstore inside the student center was bigger than before and insane realized why. In the mid 2000s you could get a few generic looking KSU sweatshirts and tees, with a few license plates and maybe a couple of hat styles thrown in. Now fully half the store or more was devoted to black and gold swag of every variety, and just stuff that looked like it came from Cafepress either. It legitimately had the inventory level I would expect from a NFL stadium team shop.

 

Where will I keep horses?

 

Absolutely loved my time in Blacksburg in my late teens and early 20s. Absolutely no way I could live there now in my late 40s, for reasons you've listed. I'm not trying to be the old dude at TOTS reliving my college days.

 

My place in the Ozarks? It’s like 25 minutes from there.

 

Here on Cape Cod, property taxes are not so onerous, because so many houses are owned by part-time summer residents. The year-round population is smaller, thus requiring fewer services. It's a pol's dream, 60 percent of the taxpayers can't vote and only use services for 2-3 months.

 

Moved to southern Lancaster County for work five years ago and decided this is home now, even though retirement is 20 years away. Only move we plan is to the retirement home across town, or maybe the cemetery across the street from it.

Though we spent some time in the Shenandoah Valley last month and that would be a nice consolation prize. Strasburg, Staunton, Harrisonburg, Lexington (maybe too many kids).

 

I’ve been told that Michigan and Minnesota are great for documented lake and winter lovers like myself.

But I know next to nothing about either of those states, outside of the fact that my brother’s wife grew up in Grand Rapids and loved it.