If you had a choice where would you retire?

[DZ]

Thanks guys - will be meeting with our financial advisor before it all goes down. I'm sure those questions come up all the time.

[ThrowingTimber]

I will be in the old country for winters and summers here chasing fish
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[hardcore from shore]

Cape cod for May through October (coincidence that it is similar to Striped Bass?). Visit Kids and grandkids in TX (Dallas and Austin) in April and November and December. Live with Relatives in FL Jan, Feb and March and do lots of day and week trips all over FL in that time (also redfish, snook, seatrout, tarpon and ladyfish) and my annual March Madness trip in Marathon during start of NCAA hoops.

TX too hot in summer (100 degrees every day). That is why my daughter and her girls spend a month with us in July and early August. We are in Austin TX now and it is 100.

FL hot in summer (but sea breezes near coasts- either one) so better than TX.

Grand kids are definitely a REAL draw for some grandmas too so the kids locations must be accounted for too.

One good home base especially RI or MA for striped bass lovers. Then plan on lots of travel the other months.

Don't permanently move until you try a cycle or two. Make sure family is 100% on board, when wife is happy, everyone is happy.

Residency thing is real and 183 days minimum and a few other tests too that are well documented. States want their $.

Retirement second only to marrying my wife. I tell the kids they are a distant third.

Still practicing and fine tuning but 1st 2 years very good.

Bill

[Steve K]

Tuscany
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[Jackbass]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

Puerto Rico will tax the crap out of you. Worse than any New England state.

It's a pipe dream given my family history etc I'll retire to a crematorium. In any case if I a am so lucky to retire with my faculties it's where I'd want to be
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[Pete F.]

Now, I would just as soon be as far away from "good" hospitals as I could get. My wife helped a 90+ year old guy for a number of years. He didn't really need anything but she went a couple of times a week and did his laundry etc. Never had been sick to speak of. Went to the ER for some reason and died the next day, she said it was terrible. I thought it was perfect, 90+ years of healthy living and gone in a couple of days. Who wants things dragged out badly for years.

[sburnsey931]

Downsize to a condo in New England to spend our summers here with kids and grandkids. Eventually fishing boat will become luxury cruiser. I'll fish on my sons' boats.
Phoenix in the winter for golf and my wife's family. We bought a house in Anthem Country Club (2 18 hole courses and clubhouses).
Taxes, HOA and Social Membership $450/ month.
The whole town was built in 1999.
January will be for a month of travel until too old to enjoy.
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http://www.clubcorp.com/Clubs/Anthem-Golf-Country-Club

[striperman36]

Wife is pestering me with VT and NC. BIL is out Asheville, NC. He says lots of people bounce back from FL.
Anyone look at Charleston, NC?

I will probably never completely retire and would be looking for a place to get some part time IT work, hopefully, remote.

[Raven]

i'm not planning to retire anywhere they have wild HOGS
or Fire ANTS. The Hogs become vessels of new SWINE flu strains
and the mosquitoes feast on them relentlessly.

if You get stung
by a fire ANT and you literally want to scratch your flesh off
until you look like a ZOMBIE.