If you had a choice where would you retire?

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by fishrick

I am with Piemma. Rent for three months during the winter, if the hurricane comes a blows the roof off, tell the landlord and return north....no taxes, upkeep, headaches, and freedom to change. Yep...thats the current plan. My parents did it, my wife likes it...and I would miss the northeast...as a hunter and a fisherman.

That's the direction I'd like to go, it's the flexibility and the fact you don't have to worry about a 2nd property, that is attractive to me. My parent's actually did the reverse, they retired in Marathon Key and rented up here every summer to be with the extended family for 4 months of the year. That is the option I'd consider, renting up here for the summer can probably be had for less money with us knowing so many cottage owners now.

Unfortunately when their health started to go, they sold the place on then canal and moved back up north and the family ran a constant shuttle service for them both for their remaining years to N.E. Babtist hospital. That of course is one of the main reasons to stay north and rent south winters, you won't get health care anywhere the comes close to what we have in Boston.