I'd live in San Francisco proper. Despite the bummage I love the city.
La Jolla is nice, but a lot of a-holes live there.
Flagstaff is a cool little town but grossly overpriced and it's too remote.
A lake house on Lake Winnipesaukee would be tasty but winter sucks.
Corpus Christi has some beautiful homes on the bluff overlooking the bay but summer sucks.
So my fantasy retirement triangulation would be San Francisco from March-June, New Hampshire from June-late September, Corpus from October-March.
Reality? I'll be stuck in Hellhole. I'll just comfort myself with the fact that we're entering the brief period each year when we have San Diego weather.
If money was no object, what would your post-retirement life look like? I am leaning towards buying an RV in 20 years to escape in the summer. Some like to mock this lifestyle, but I think it would be great to be mobile.
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Falls in Hot Springs, AR
First, a little Goin' Mobile sound track.
Fall and spring in Southern Wisconsin (extended family there). I'd like to spend more time in Europe: Holland (wife's extended family); I also like Germany, Italy and England.
Texas is one of the few lower 48 states I've never set foot in- not intentionally- just never happened- and me a chemist in the energy field.
I'll do the RV thing myself, sporting satellite innernets and towing a Jeep.
Chickenlittle - summer here in Southern Wisco is nice - not too hot save for a few weeks.
My dream, which will be reality someday is a house in southwest Michigan on the lake for summer, something in AZ for winter. That way I can run and ride my bike year around outside.
Summer in the mountains.
Winter at the beach.
My grandparents had a tiny travel trailer that they lived in during the summer at a small private campground called Rand Pond in New Hampshire. They did this for close to 30 years, with my grandfather driving back to town every morning to run his business. He even built a small enclosed trailer that he towed to the site that served as his mobile workshop.
They were happy as clams, surrounded by dozens of other WWII-generation people. One thing I could never figure out was why it was important for these old people to live next to a body of water. They never went boating or swimming, and I don't recall my grandfather ever fishing. He was too busy building doodads in his mobile workshop that they would sell to other retirees. Stuff like weather vanes.
I want to add that they were the last generation to save bacon grease. Every morning it was bacon, eggs, toast, Postum (doctor says no caffeine!), followed by a cigarette. Never did figure out what they did with those coffee cans full of bacon fat.
Lou, bacon fat is a great seasoning. RVs are a lot of trouble to own, move, operate....the fun passes very quickly if you have to "live" in it. I say the USVI during the winter and New Mexico during the summer...condos at both end..avoid NM income tax by claiming USVI as "home"...
Delaware beach communities. No state income tax. Mild winters, great summers, easy access to Philadelphia, NYC, Baltimore and Washington, DC.
Santa Barbara homebase and Green Mountains Summer/Fall. The White Mountains are a funny melange and the Adirondacks are schitsophrenic. The Greens a happy medium. Depending on tax considerations I might even slip south into Massachusetts for the Pittsfiled/Adams summer action.
If money were no object, you could have houses anywhere, but having an RV allows you to experience the best of most any world- city, ocean, mountains, remote or populated - at your own pace. The RV life represents freedom and adventure.
Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
author of Support Your RV Lifestyle! An Insider's Guide to Working on the Road
If money was no object...
Then why are you mentioning that Flagstaff is grossly overpriced?
Maybe I'm biased, but...NH is where it's at! =)
If money were no object, I honestly think I'd just be plain homeless and travel constantly. I've always had to fight a real wanderlust. When I was in my 20's, I took a job that required me to move often. Now with a wife, I can't do what I did before and just pick up stakes and move across the country for an indeterminate amount of time with 3 days notice.
Though the wife has been aching for an "adventure" so we are looking at teaching overseas. One of the few advantages of not owning a house I guess, we can do that sort of dang fool stuff more easily.
NoVa, touche. Sometimes I'm scatterbrained. It seems to occur more frequently as I age.
Being scatterbrained is acceptable. It's natures way of offsetting the fact that you realize one day that you actually NEED a nose/ear hair trimmer.
I came to that realization last year, but I just use tweezers.
Sell the house. Buy a small home base somewhere near kids. Rent homes/apartments all over the world for 6 months or so at a time and enjoy exploring.
I like and utilize Vicki's plan. You don't really own homes, they own you. Short term rentals (30 to 180 days) around the globe that you use and walk away from are a beautiful thing. See the world, however you can, it's f*cking amazing.
Where do you like in Corpus Christi? Padre Island?
Padre is nice, and I like Port A. I am thinking about those houses on Ocean Drive in Corpus Christi proper.
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