Retirement/relocation destination?

[playthrough]

"Make your darn 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.

I've had season tix to basketball for seven years, always resisted football tickets but now might have to get in. Indeed it would be nice "for investment purposes" if conference fattening meant adding more conference games and weeding out all the cupcakes.

 

[BTExpress]

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."

 

[Driftwood]

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.

 

[jr/shotglass]

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.

 

[BTExpress]

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

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

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 Should Coco]

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 pash on to our two children, other than our house, but my thought that the kids automatically inherit our ashets when we both die is not correct.

 

[jr/shotglass]

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.

 

[MileHigh]

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 pash on to our two children, other than our house, but my thought that the kids automatically inherit our ashets when we both die is not correct.

Listen to your daughter. It certainly was a huge help when my sister and her family died. Considering how much stuff they had, from second, third, fourth homes to a multi-million dollar business, it was all wrapped up in the will.

You might not have a lot, but I've read horror stories and heard them from our attorney that it's best to take 90 minutes, talk with an estate planner, let them write it up and it will potentially save a lot of headaches.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

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 pash on to our two children, other than our house, but my thought that the kids automatically inherit our ashets when we both die is not correct.

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.

 

[Big Circus]

That's going to be the case at virtually any decent college. Particularly at public colleges, the population growth alone is going to mandate more dorms, more academic buildings etc. And then there's footbawwwwl.
As far as college towns go, I'm going to guess there are a lot of alums who think, "I could retire here" when they're 45. But by the time they hit retirement age, the old town has grown and traffic has doubled and nothing looks like it once did and the old college town isn't so appealing anymore.

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.

 

[Driftwood]

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.