Popol Vuh
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:36 PM
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Poll question: Where are you planning on retiring |
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:39 PM
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1. I voted for current location. Which lends exactly zero to any conclusions your poll |
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might have found. :shrug:
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:50 PM
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You mean it doesn't conclude that you prefer to retire where you currently live? It doesn't conclude you prefer to stay close to friends and family? It doesn't conclude that you're happy with your current location?
Peace...
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Sat Mar-29-08 09:03 PM
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18. I wasn't trying to be a prick, I just thought "current location" could be Peoria or Peking |
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and so doesn't seem to contribute much to whatever it is you're trying to discern. But maybe I'm imagining things. Or not. Who knows? :D
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Sat Mar-29-08 11:15 PM
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But I could have also just checked and see that your vote for current location equaled Roswell, New Mexico. :P
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:40 PM
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2. I am retired and hubby will in 18 months or so |
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looking forward to it.....little place at the lake, fishing and hiking when we want and we will be able to first take that long dreamed of through-hike on the Appalachian Trail.
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:41 PM
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3. Perhaps we'll meet each other on the AT. n/t |
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:58 PM
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We have hiked most of it in spurts but want to due the entire hike, providing our health holds out which looks good right now. Cancer be damned! We're going anyway.
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Sat Mar-29-08 09:08 PM
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19. My thoughts exactly, cardiac arrest and triple by-pass be dammed, I'm going anyway. n/t |
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:41 PM
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4. Current Location. Which tells you NOTHING! NT |
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:46 PM
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I mean you sound like my poll is for some kind of nefarious reason or something. Sheeeze
LOL..
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:43 PM
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5. You don't have a choice for us |
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we are retiring as liveabords on a Catalina sailboat primarily on the Atlantic and in the Gulf.
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:46 PM
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:46 PM
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8. we moved here three years ago and plan to retire here. To which end we installed solar power |
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and built a greenhouse... We have a small orchard, a big veggie garden, and a little flock of chickens.
We have 10 years til the mortgage is paid off, and that is when I can "retire" - more likely go to part time. Hubby can retire in 15 years.
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:47 PM
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9. I'm hopng for an appliance box in good condition. |
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:48 PM
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:50 PM
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12. Hoping to move from OH .... |
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to MA, ME, or CT.
I love the northeast and the Atlantic Ocean!
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:54 PM
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13. I used to think that many people moved somewhere else when they retired |
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but then I read that very, very few of them move away from their home area, like less than 5%.
We wanted to move to Asheville, NC, a liberal bastion in the southeast but chickened out as we have no friends or family there. Still think about it every now and then although it is one of the states that taxes out of state pensions which is not good for retirees.
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:55 PM
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By the time I'm old enough to do it, the retirement age will have gone up to 80. I'll be working until I'm dead...
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Sat Mar-29-08 08:57 PM
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Breathing?
Music?
Man, I am never gonna retire.
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Sat Mar-29-08 10:18 PM
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26. Me, neither...I like working; it provides structure to life |
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and gives you something to look forward to. If I suddenly became very wealthy and didn't need to work, I'd look for opportunities to volunteer at least 3 to 5 days a week.
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Sat Mar-29-08 09:02 PM
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I's got this crazy little woman in KCMO. Really. In another couple of years...
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Sat Mar-29-08 09:49 PM
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20. We hope to keep our current house .... |
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because we love it.... and get a condo in NC for the winter and vacations.
We are a long way off from actually doing anything about it though!
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Sat Mar-29-08 09:51 PM
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21. Retirement won't be an option |
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I plan to die where I am now, however... if the cost of living doesn't drive me out first.
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Sat Mar-29-08 09:59 PM
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22. Costa Rica....8 years to go. |
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...and I'll only have to see snow if I want to :)
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Sat Mar-29-08 10:00 PM
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23. I wouldn't be anywhere but here. n/t |
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Sat Mar-29-08 10:02 PM
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24. What is this "retiring" of which you speak? |
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I'm going to have to keep working until they finally drag my wrinkled, dead old ass out through the loading dock.
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Sat Mar-29-08 10:07 PM
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25. ~$300/mo, incl. mortgage, insurance, prop. tax |
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why on earth would I move?
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Sat Mar-29-08 10:38 PM
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27. Retirement is for the privileged. |
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I have no expectation of ever being able to retire.
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Sat Mar-29-08 11:21 PM
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29. Europe, probably Germany............. |
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At least for the summers. Back to my roots (albeit 300 years ago.)
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Sat Mar-29-08 11:23 PM
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30. As far away from other people as possible |
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Sat Mar-29-08 11:33 PM
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31. Like Travis McGee I take my retirement a little chunk at a time... |
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and I go to Belize. I love it down there.
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Sat Mar-29-08 11:41 PM
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for now, at least. We've talked about moving to OR, AZ, and HI but our lives are here, our friends are here, our activities are here. IT would just take too long to start over someplace else.
Besides the thought of packing up this house gives me a panic attack. :scared:
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Sun Mar-30-08 12:09 AM
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33. I'm a complete cynic and even at age 37, I still don't believe I'm going to live to old age. |
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It's flawed reasoning. I'm obviously still here.
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Sun Mar-30-08 03:44 AM
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34. Retiring are you kidding? |
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Sun Mar-30-08 05:35 AM
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just read thats its the cheapest state in the USA to live in.
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Sun Mar-30-08 05:46 AM
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37. South of Market, SF, with a tin cup and shopping cart |
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