audreyh1
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On the "Isolation" thread, there was a discussion about fear of isolation after retirement. There seemed to be a strong correlation between retiring and selling the house, moving to a new place, etc. and feeling isolated. In other words, no only were these people leaving work - itself a major adjustment - but they simultaneously moved away from their social network and their old house/town into something completely new.
What is is about retiring that makes people want to do everything at once?
I see this a lot on the Fulltimer RV forums. People arrange things so that at the moment they leave their job, they have already sold their house, moved into an RV, and are ready to hit the road on day 1 after retirement, leaving everything they have known behind - including their social network.
We completely changed our life (also ultimately went fulltime RVer), but we did it gradually over a 5 year period. Personally, I'm glad it took us 5 years or so to make this transition. Much less stressful and plenty of time to figure out what we really wanted.
Once I asked some folks why they made these drastic changes all at once. They explained that at 65 years old, they didn't feel they had the time to spend on a gradual transition - after 5 years they would be 70! It was now or never. They might just have a few years left to travel like this and they didn't want to "waste" any of it doing things piecemeal.
One of the advantages of retiring early is that you don't have to make all the changes at once. You can do them gradually and feel your way along - discovering what you really want to do, and what is just a silly pipe dream that you realize doesn't suit you at all.
Audrey
What is is about retiring that makes people want to do everything at once?
I see this a lot on the Fulltimer RV forums. People arrange things so that at the moment they leave their job, they have already sold their house, moved into an RV, and are ready to hit the road on day 1 after retirement, leaving everything they have known behind - including their social network.
We completely changed our life (also ultimately went fulltime RVer), but we did it gradually over a 5 year period. Personally, I'm glad it took us 5 years or so to make this transition. Much less stressful and plenty of time to figure out what we really wanted.
Once I asked some folks why they made these drastic changes all at once. They explained that at 65 years old, they didn't feel they had the time to spend on a gradual transition - after 5 years they would be 70! It was now or never. They might just have a few years left to travel like this and they didn't want to "waste" any of it doing things piecemeal.
One of the advantages of retiring early is that you don't have to make all the changes at once. You can do them gradually and feel your way along - discovering what you really want to do, and what is just a silly pipe dream that you realize doesn't suit you at all.
Audrey