canadianteddy
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Nov 7, 2008
- Messages
- 54
Hi all: I have been reading the boards for a couple of months now and have thoroughly enjoyed the many perspectives found here. DH and I are 53 & 49 respectively and have backed into early retirement 3 years ago when we sold our business. We never meant to retire at that time, fully expecting to become gainfully employed, but it never happened. For whatever reason our ages seemed to hinder the job search and we finally said "Oh well". We have 2 kids 21 and 18 still on the payroll at home. We have sufficient investments, if we are careful, that should keep the wolf from our door. Our home is paid, we carry one small car loan, and are due for about $10,000.00 in home improvements within the next couple of years. We have suffered from the market crash, just as others have, but seemingly not to a huge extent by comparison--but it still hurts* ouch *. I find it interesting to compare the cost of living posted on these boards in comparison to ours. We have always been conservative but there is no way in H*** that we could survive on some of the small sums posted here. I would be interested in comparing the cost of living with other fellow Canadians to see if we are the norm or not. Eg. our property taxes are high by comparision to the neighbours to the south ($7,200.00) and we either eat alot or groceries are sky high Anyway I look forward to participating here.
Cheers to all.
Cheers to all.