My wife and I live in South Florida. We are both 55 Florida is a "world" where everyone sells their houses every few years, constantly moves from job to job, state to state, and all are 'living' for one goal; retire as soon as possible! We are the opposite; 20+ years at our jobs. My wife would like to semi-retire at 67, then work part-time. I want to work until 85 (50 years on my job at that time!), and we are still living in the same house for 25 years. Instead of moving all over, like everyone else, we rent a house, for two weeks, in a different part of the country, every year.
With so many people around us constantly 'selling and moving,' (all our neighbors have changed every few years), we sometimes think that we are not doing the right thing by "staying put!"
I think we are on the "right track" with this. What do the rest of you think?
PS We would like to have a summer home. My wife and I are considering Maryville, Tennessee. Anyone know the area?
2007-11-07 02:43:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
We also live in a house my husband bought 30 yrs. ago and in north florida. Our neighbors change at least yearly sometime monthly and we live on a dead end street with only 11 houses. My husband will work till the day he dies and I help by doing the computer end of it from home and raise the grandkids for the children. So retirement is not in our game plan either. Trust me you are on the best track. Homes just keep going up in price and it is a sellers market.
2007-11-07 03:15:19 · answer #1 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Florida is a transient state and has been for years, not just with senior citizens moving in and out every 6 months.. When I first moved to Jacksonville, it was the insurance capital of the south, then all the insurance corporations moved to the Carolinas. There went a lot of people with all those jobs. Many parts of Florida are also military areas, so there is a lot of moving in and out going on.
I think what you're doing shows stability and you have a good plan working for you. If you have no great desire to uproot yourselves every few years, why do it just because other do?
2007-11-07 02:58:03 · answer #2 · answered by Lady G 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You must indeed love your work. I hope your health holds up long enough for your dreams to come to fruition.
I guess it depends on what kind of work you do in your life that will give you the idea of working till your 85 and then part timing it. It's very ambitious and while I admire a great outlook, I would caution you that sometimes the unforeseen can end it all with 'a stroke', a heart attack, an accident.
I hope you and your wife live long and prosper as Spock says, just remember to "LIVE" and have more fun as you are aging and perhaps take more breaks from the work through the years or you may come up short on time to live out your dreams. Life has a way of coming up and biting us on the keister when we least expect it.
2007-11-07 05:17:49 · answer #3 · answered by autumlovr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NOw is not the time to sell anything real estate if you do not have to..the bottom has fallen out of the market in Florida, not expected to rise again for at least 2 more years. I would stay put, you obviously like where you are at. But you really may want to reconsider that moving every 2 weeks thing! Where in the world are you going to find the energy to ever enjoy yourself? I can see getting in a comfortably car and going places, staying in economic motels, but ... changing addresses? OF course, you may have inversted in a lot of time share, and that makes sense...except getting there can be expensive. Good luck, Phil
2007-11-07 06:16:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
To me, living in South Florida would be the ideal place for retirement or continuing to work. Your life suits both you and your wife so why change? People who thrive on constant change and love the battle to "move up in the world" are a whole different breed. Don't try to convince yourself that you need to be like them.
2007-11-07 03:54:16 · answer #5 · answered by Miz D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are happy with your life then you are on the right track. Everyone makes thier own life choices and one isn't better than the other, since we have no idea when death will come (most men don't live past 80, so you may never retire with you current goal) but if thats the life you are happy with then by all means live it.
Its not really about the right track, its about the right track for you.
2007-11-07 03:07:26 · answer #6 · answered by howie r 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Staying put is not a bad plan. We've become a land of nomads for some reason, creating tons of neighborhoods where people don't know their neighbors. I grew up in a NEIGHBORHOOD. If you did something wrong, the neighbors called your mother.
A summer home would be nice though, because it would be nice to take a "getaway" any time you wanted. You know, like mini-weekend vacations.
2007-11-07 03:13:38 · answer #7 · answered by Lady M 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
congratulations on considering a Tennessee move.i moved here in 1986 and i live about 65 miles west of Knoxville.i live in a retirement community called the golf capital of the south.maryville is a nice small southern town but it is too close to Knoxville for my liking.just look up some of the t.v stations and read about maryville.WBIR-WVLT-WATE.come on down and look around i think you will enjoy it here.the living is nice and slow
2007-11-07 04:12:40 · answer #8 · answered by alcaholicdemon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why gauge your life and lifestyle by others? You and your wife appear to be comfortable and happy in the one you have chosen and it makes sense to me!
I don't know about Maryville....however, when my family lived in Florida, they had a summer home very near the Tenn. border nr Bald Mountain in NC and loved it!
2007-11-07 03:30:23 · answer #9 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tennessee is a Beautiful place, my husband is retiring in 15 months at the age of 43 from the Army and we plan on moving to Alabama. Why are you planning on working so late in life until your 85? you have to enjoy life, go travel, we are planning on buying a RV and traveling around the country, Thank god we are set where we don't have to work again. and we are still in our 40's. so come on enjoy life don't work until your to old to do anything
Good Luck
2007-11-07 03:11:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋