Financial experts suggest working until 70

[meierlde]

Note that the mason example cited involves starting a small business, and as noted running the business. This is of course possible in a large number of trades in construction, and repair. Note that the days of manual carrying things up ladders are dieing out due to the number of folks with back injuries. You can add a hoist to a scaffold to get materials to where they are needed. Also in the case of masons there are now brick laying robots, the only question is are the economical?

[kcowan]

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Originally Posted by Dtail I believe many Canadians come here for the winter to play golf. Is there an anti Canadian vibe in FLA, or a different reference?

No, we spent a month each year after retirement, one on the east side and one on the west side. But, at the time, the estate laws were onerous for resident aliens (that have been fixed since). At that time, only $60k was protected. A lot of our friends go to Palm Springs and Scottsdale to golf and play tennis.

We bought in Mexico in 2007 and the estate law was not fixed until 2011. COL is higher in Florida:
Compare Tampa to PV

[Dtail]

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Originally Posted by kcowan No, we spent a month each year after retirement, one on the east side and one on the west side. But, at the time, the estate laws were onerous for resident aliens (that have been fixed since). At that time, only $60k was protected. A lot of our friends go to Palm Springs and Scottsdale to golf and play tennis. We bought in Mexico in 2007 and the estate law was not fixed until 2011. COL is higher in Florida: Compare Tampa to PV

Okay that's good. Decent diversity where I live, so good to hear no negative reason.
We seriously considered Mexico, but would have to be full time and just couldn't pull the trigger.
Hope to have long visits though.