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People have been harping on this for at least 30 years. Its not newly discovered. Heck the Mayans were so scared of it that they ended their part of civilation more than 1000 years ago in anticipation. That would be an.......ti..............ci..........pay...eh.......eh.......eh.....shun...

Can I have your car when you go?

The biggest problem early on is finding the correct and most useful way to serve others when your major service effort that you did did for maybe 40 years is now passed. You have to figure out what the most salient features of your active working service life were, and then reach out to others...

We traveled all over the east of the Mississippi during the summers from 1977 on. During that time we found a wonderful place that we went back again and again. But even so we had planned to retire in a very rural community that we built a cabin in way back in 1998. One day, the lady who we...

I guess after only 6 months I'm in the final stage. I don't think much about what I did before at all, except as if it was another life. I'm no longer that person. Altho.... For more than 25 years in my work place at Xmas, I hung up a sign with an "L", with one of those NO crosses over it...

WHEN YOU GET STABILIZED YOU'LL FEEL RETIRED. Until we sold our house and moved, we were in limbo. Now that we have moved, my wife is not subbing part time at the school that she started 16 years ago, and we've gotten out lives together in new ways here, AND we're not going somewhere to be...

Do not know what the word "stobor" means. We've been here now for 5 weeks. All the interior boxes are unpacked. The wood stove arrived and it was installed, and the 3 cords of wood were delivered, so we are toasty warm here in New England. My wife is now practicing the dulcimer for the...

The company that manages my retirement portfolio made more than 8% last year.

Is that the North Sea beyond the hills?

Since we bought our house back in the 80's, and since it was paid for, we used a formula which works some places and not others. Houses in our area were rising at about $3K a year until the boom. We pretended there was no boom. We multiplied the number of years since we bought the house by...

What are the reasons for needing to downsize? I see this everywhere, but I don't understand it. Of course if its in an upscale neighborhood, you can't let the grass grow. Before our neighbors were right next to us and we could see other neighbors across the street. Now while we have...

Who is the top 1%? Any ideas? We have all these people wearing badges that say 99%. People who have defined benefit pensions might have to consider themselves part of the 1% if they compare how much their net worth would have to be to actually be able to receive the pension for 30 years...

Right ON! Not having to be there every morning at 8:20. Not having endless stupid pieces of paperwork that have to be compiled that no one ever looks at after you do it. Not having to talk to people for a living and help them and NEVER ever having any of them say "Thank you". Not being...

Finally Moved in to my New New-England Home. Now we are unpacking thousands of boxes. Need to go change registration fro the cars today. they wanted the titles!! God only knows where they are in all the packed boxes!!!

I'm sorry. I don't understand the question. Could you be more specific?

I'm sorry. I've learned over the years on forums, that it is best to share general information about yourself, but to get specific just invites responses that you don't want. So I won't be sharing other than saying Northern New England near a bit of water to sail a 12 foot sailboat.

If we had moved a lot, we wouldn't have collected so much stuff. But if we had moved a lot, then we wouldn't have a decent pension to go along with SS. I can't imagine do this in a foreign country. For us that wouldn't be possible. However, we had thought for awhile of staying in our current...

If we had time that might have worked. We know that at age 60 and 62, we need to establish ourselves in the "new land", and get going. The longer we waited to put together this whole thing, the more difficult it would be for us, and the more likelyhood we would not have moved at all. And we...

Soon, Grasshopper, Soon.......

I didn't include those. They are just a mess.

Thought horribly naively that packing up our furniture and stuff after 33 years and selling our house would be a breeze...... 1. Couldn’t find a house we liked 2. Made two whirlwind trips to New England, driving 30 hours total, and then 12 hour marathon of house looking in the area we wanted...

Since our progress from inception of where we wanted to move in Northern New England, and the long more than 4 year process to get there has been fraught with temporary roadblock after temporary roadblock that we have had to wrok through..... and we are almost there.... almost. I would private...

Our proces of actually getting to our retirement home in Northern New England has been so long and fraught with so many temporary roadblocks that we feel like Salmon fighting to get home up stream. Rather than saying that the universe is trying to tell us not to move, we remind ourselves that...

I talked to the Assistant Superintendent today in the Grocery Story. I was in there with all the other retired folk. He's about 37. I was working for four years, when he was born. He says, "We had a WIB meeting the other day, and I was thinking of you." Holy Crap! Has it only been five...

Re: "Alpha28 wrote, "My biggest retirement surprise is how little I miss work. " This was the first September in 58 years that I wasn't either going to school or working in a school. I figured that I would miss it. The reality is that I don't miss it even one little bit. I'm relieved...