When You Retire, What State Will You Retire To?

[THUNDER HANDS]

When you're old, wrinkled and grey (or moreso, for some DUers) where are you gonna lay down camp to spend the rest of your days?

[meegbear]

1. State of rest.

[goddess40]

2. Canada is my second choice but I don't think I'd qualify

if I wait until I 'retire'. Actually I'm on disability and I'd be in Canada right now if it weren't for the fact that my hubby works for the state. Can't really live in Canada a work for the state of WI.

[searchingforlight]

7. It would seem to me that as long as he kept a room or WI address,

you could live in Canada and he could "visit" you as many times as he wished.

[SiobhanClancy]

3. I'm never going to retire

so I have no answer:)

[dwckabal]

6. You are right

the question should be, "IF you retire..."

[ProudGerman]

38. Exactly

I'm 26. By the time I'm in my 60's and thinking about retirement, the retirement age will be life plus 16 years.

Trust me, they'll find a way to work us from the grave.

[TrogL]

4. Canada

but then again, I live there

[Philostopher]

5. Other.

We're looking at south central New Mexico. It'll be a couple of decades, probably, before we can afford it -- and while my mother would doubtless pack up the plantation and go with us, my MIL thinks the sun rises and sets on Cincinnati, Ohio, she'd never go for it.

Someday, though.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. If I could afford it

I'd spend my winters in Hawaii. Beautiful scenery, friendly people, lots of Asian and Pacific culture.

[maxanne]

9. By my current calculations

I will have to work for at least 3 years after I'm dead, just to break even. No retirement for this evil DU'er.

[madrchsod]

10. cloud nine

-been watching "standing in the shadows of motown"

[Brucey]

11. If I could,

I'd retire to France, Denmark, or Germany.

[MaineDem]

12. I am retired

And Maine is where I was born and where we decided to settle until we decide it's time to pull up stakes and go to, perhaps, Ireland or New Zealand. Depends on the 2004 election.

[leftynyc]

13. Sedona, AZ

Four seasons, no humidity and those majestic red rocks.

[SiouxJ]

19. Yeah but it's expensive

and so crowded with tourists that you can't do anything without 50 million other people joining you. The roads aren't built to support that many people either so you poke along in traffic a lot. And it's too damn hot in the summer. I lived there for 3 years and I loved it but after awhile all that stuff I just mentioned got to me. I moved nearby and it's much nicer except for all the Wingnuts. I'd try renting a house there in the summer before you retire there. But you're right, it's one of the most beautiful places on earth. :-)

[LynneSin]

14. Wow - did Bush Annex Canada into the United States?

I figured he wouldn't want a bunch of peace-loving, pot-smoking, legally married homosexuals as a part of this country

:shrug:

[LuminousX]

15. Montana

God's country.

[rbnyc]

16. No idea!

My husband will have to be near water. I like a place that has seasons. If I don't have to worry about finding work, there's nothing to keep me from leaving the country, unless we ever have kids, grandkids (who knows if I can even get pregnant again, so far no luck, but I digress.) Cliff loved the south of France when he was there. I remember him saying something about wanting to retire there once.

:shrug:

[MaryBear]

26. On California, and Your Digression

Hey, rbnyc -- at least you two can have fun trying. I'm not meaning to sound flip -- you deserve some fun. Once your body fully recovers would be a great time for additions. Take your time, and enjoy.

For myself, I'll stay in California. There's nothing like enjoyably mild seasons. If only Canada had Bay Area weather!

[rbnyc]

33. Thx grandmabear.

We may end up taking our honeymoon in California.

[MaryBear]

39. Come see us, rbnyc.

Bay Area DU'ers would love to meet you both!

[JohnKleeb]

17. You mean where could I end up

I could end up anywhere the way I am feeling.

[VOX]

18. Have narrowed it to 4 possibilities: Carmel/Monterey, CA; Santa Fe, NM;

Flagstaff, AZ; or Vancouver, Canada if things get *really bad*.

[KamaAina]

20. You left out Hawai'i!

then again, in an island state, you couldn't "drive your sleek machine over ANY state line"!

[bif]

21. Tuscany in Northern Italy

or possibly the south of France.

[radwriter0555]

30. Tuscany is in the middle of italy... and the south of france is VERY

expensive, but the food is GREAT.

Tuscany will now be overrun with more americans cause of that stupid movie. You'll be buying your house FROM an american or a swede!

[lbailey]

22. Retire in Hawaii!!!

I would like to retire in Hawaii. I could be close to my family and old friends. Plus I miss lomi-lomi salmon, poke, spam musubi and poi.

[trigz]

23. Amsterdam

The best city in the world, and with the most friendly people.
Either there, or right where I'm at now, which is Bøler, a suburb to Oslo, Norway, just a few minutes with the metro from the centre of a city of 500,000 people, and yet with a fantastic lake, a huge forest and clean air right outside my window.

That said, I'd probably go for Amsterdam, what with the bicycles, the pot and all that. ;)

[Kolesar]

24. I heard that the libertarians voted to move en masse' to New Hampshire

They plan to move there by the tens of thousands, then undo the government to make it some kind of worker's paradise, or whatever the Libertarian equivalent of that is.

[tedoll78]

25. I have two options:

I either want a condo in the French Quarter in New Orleans, or I want to buy a number of acres north of Lake Pontchartrain, about 1 hour north of the Big Easy.

[geniph]

27. Probably right here in Washington state

since I don't qualify to emigrate to New Zealand, as I desperately want to...

[soupkitchen]

28. Obliviom

[radwriter0555]

29. MEXICO..

Life in the tropics is my aim...

[GOPisEvil]

31. Inebriation

;-)

Actually, I haven't thought that far ahead.

[CBHagman]

32. Who the hell says I'm going to get to retire?

Please. Look at the state of things. I've got a couple of decades to sock away money and am currently doing so, but God knows what's going to happen to Social Security, Medicare, etc., in the meantime. I've been hearing literally for the last 20 years that I can't expect Social Security.

One thing I know for sure, though: I will NEVER be a Wal-Mart greeter to pay the bills! Nothing could make me sink that low. :-)

[xJlM]

34. State of confusion

I doubt if I live long enough to retire. Even if I did, why would I want to be like the other retirees I see?

[woofless]

35. We're there (though still working)

Northern Cascades western slope near Mt. Baker. Just 5 mi. south of the border. Nicest place I have ever lived.

[Awsi Dooger]

36. South Florida

Born there, should never have left.

I have traveled plenty. My (very, I hope) late retirement will be back in Miami, playing golf and attending sporting events.

[Snow]

37. Colorado - Winter Park....

9,000 feet, not a big company concession stand to the degree that Vail, etc are, affordable (last time I looked, anyway), frequent trains running to Denver. I really like the altitude, for some reason I fell much healthier at altitude. Also, a local park has some of the world's best water, out of a pump.

On the other hand, if we need to split the US - you could do a lot worse than Nanaimo, British Columbia - one of the prettiest towns in the country.

[marigold20]

40. Summer - Montana

Fall - Midwest
Winter - Gulf Coast
Spring - back to Midwest

I can dream, can't I?

[hussar]

41. Although I like it here a lot

not sure how long I will be able to hack the shrub and his cronies, could well be tempted back to Europe but not the UK where I come from.

[Padraig18]

42. Santa Fe. NM

Perhaps the most beautiful, charming and laid-back cities I have ever been in. I LOVE it there! :)

[murphymom]

43. "Pre-retired" to Oregon

Sunshine is definitely over-rated.

[NashVegas]

44. Western Mass

Gonna hide up in the Berkshires, baby.