Places to retire to. You may not be ready yet but it's good to plan.

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You may not quite be ready for this but it pays to prepare.

You can retire to Phoenix , Arizona where........
1.. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
2.. You've experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
3. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
6. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!

You can retire to California where...
1 You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
3. You know how to eat an artichoke.
4. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party..
5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
6. The 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought.

You can retire to New York City where...
1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan .....
2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
3. You think Central Park is "nature."
4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
5. You've worn out a car horn. ( Ed note: if you have a car)

You can retire to Maine where...
1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco .
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for moose..
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.

You can retire to the Deep South where...
1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2. "Y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural..
3. "He needed killin'" is a valid defense.
4. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Sue, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc.
5. Everything is either "in yonder," "over yonder" or "out yonder." It's important to know the difference, too.

You can retire to Colorado where.....
1 . You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car .
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and so he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.

AND You can retire to Florida where..
1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you often appear to be driven by headless people.



You can retire to the Wisconsin where...
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at? "
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"



 
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You can retire to Tennessee where...
1. There are more tractors than cars.
2. There are more trucks than cars.
3. A family of four makes for a full set of teeth.
4. Moonshine is served at the church social right beside the lemonade.
5. A body piercing usually involves a knife or a bullet.
6. Opening day of hunting season is a state holiday.
 
"You can retire to Phoenix , Arizona where........
1.. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
2.. You've experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
3. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
6. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!"

This is accurate --- you won't like it here, don't come...
 
"This is accurate --- you won't like it here, don't come..."

The same goes for the South. You Yankees won't really like it down here, so stay in Brooklyn, Lansing, or anywhere else above the Mason-Dixon line.
 
You can retire to Tennessee where...
1. There are more tractors than cars.
2. There are more trucks than cars.
3. A family of four makes for a full set of teeth.
4. Moonshine is served at the church social right beside the lemonade.
5. A body piercing usually involves a knife or a bullet.
6. Opening day of hunting season is a state holiday.

Thanks Paladin!
Now I know where I'm going to retire!
 
Here on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, we get a lot of retirees from New York, I can't count how many retirees have told me "The Eastern Shore is just like Long Island "Back in the Good Old Days"....

We do have low taxes, real estate is cheap, but there are no jobs or heavy industry, perfect for retirees. The Eastern Shore is about 104 miles long, and approximately 50,000 people live here. Crime is low, what crime there is normally involves people in the drug trade shooting it out amongst themselves.

Our only export and job base is tomato and chicken farming and processing. So, you have living here low paid farm workers and retirees.

It's fine and dandy for me though, lots of canoeing and shooting.
 

You can retire to Colorado where.....
1 . You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car .
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and so he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.




I'm a Colorado native and retired here...BUT, only #3 applies...'The People's Republic of Boulder' does resemble all that and more.

OCD1, funny stuff, thanks, Preston
 
In Colorado, #4 where the top of the head is bald and with the remaining hair worn in a pony tail, it is know as a Skullet. Kind of a modified Mullet look.
 
I was raised in wisconsin 1941 to about the early 60s. Like most people I drifted off done my career in california and the wife and I retired here in utah five years ago. We did go back to wisconsin looking around and considered moveing there. The hangup was our kids. They all protested that was too far and they wouldnt see us again. So we ended up here for quite a number of reasons, one of them being its a big days drive to california. Guess what! A couple of the kids have since moved even farther away! You cant live your life for your kids!
More news. You cant go back! By that I mean nothing is the same after 40 years. Your family dies off, your boyhood friends also die, leave or whatever.
There are advantages and disadvantages no matter where you retire.
Wisconsin and utah are both good.
 
You can retire to Montana where:
1] You start all sentences with "in X we used to do it this way"
2] You thought you really knew what winter was but didn't
3] your kids move here to hunt and fish then find they need to hunt and fish to get by
4]It's normal to keep a concrete block on the garbage can lid because of wind
5] You buy new tires in July and get them studded
 
And, you can add to Phoenix or anywhere in Arizona for that matter, that:

6. You will never again in your life own a black car

7. You see nothing wrong with someone driving a car with oven mitts on their hands holding the steering wheel

8. You refer to anyone from North of Flagstaff as a "Snowbird".

9. There's only 3 people that you are afraid of; A Texan with a gun, A New Mexican with a knife, and a Californian with a U-Haul trailer.

Dan R
 
I think I'll just stay here. Good medical facilities nearby. Hunting on thousands of acres of U.S. Forestry land, good fresh and salt water fishing, New Orleans and Gulf Coast casinos not far away, Pro football 100 miles away (Who Dat?), college football 20 miles away, mountains five hours away, Florida beaches three hours away, good food everywhere, and liquor was legalized in 1968. Besides that, I don't want to move two safes, hundreds of pounds of ammo, or move phones, alarms, computers, and a bunch of other junk.
 
And, you can add to Phoenix or anywhere in Arizona for that matter, that:

6. You will never again in your life own a black car

7. You see nothing wrong with someone driving a car with oven mitts on their hands holding the steering wheel

8. You refer to anyone from North of Flagstaff as a "Snowbird".

9. There's only 3 people that you are afraid of; A Texan with a gun, A New Mexican with a knife, and a Californian with a U-Haul trailer.

Dan R

I resemble that remark (#9)
 
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