flyingaway
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I am planning to retire between 55 and 60, but my close friends (in academia) are all planning to work into their 70s. We get together for hiking, travelling, card playing, and other social events during weekends. But we have fewer and fewer common topics to talk about these days. They like to talk about proposals, papers, and honors, I like to talk about investment, personal finance, and travel, etc. I could not think about that, after my early retirement, I have to wait for every weekend days for them to be available for fun events and hear them talk about the things that I no longer have any interest in. On the other hand, I do not think I will be happy to hang on with other retirees who are at least a decade older than I am.
One possibility that I am considering is that, after early retirement, my wife and I will leave our place and travel around the world for 10 years, then come back. But I doubt that I will have the same group of friends without weekly social interactions. Maybe we will have new friends, maybe not.
Do you have the same problem? Do you leave for a new place just for the change of social environments?
One possibility that I am considering is that, after early retirement, my wife and I will leave our place and travel around the world for 10 years, then come back. But I doubt that I will have the same group of friends without weekly social interactions. Maybe we will have new friends, maybe not.
Do you have the same problem? Do you leave for a new place just for the change of social environments?