What kind of retirement do you want?

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It's not always easy to move to be near your kids. They may move around and not be settled when you are ready to move. Or your kids my not have kids. If your life doesn't revolve around grandchildren, it doesn't mean you are selfish, my goodness that is quite an assumption the PP is making!

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NY is not super elderly friendly.

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Anonymous wrote:NY is not super elderly friendly.

It is if you can afford it. Doormen, walk everywhere. And when you can't live independently, there is a great Medicaid home care benefit

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely want to stay in DC as home base. Sell the house in AU Park, buy a 2 BR condo downtown and another 2 BR condo in Rehoboth for the weekends, and we will all be set for a long time.

This is us. Want to keep/stay in our townhouse in old town Alexandria and spend time at our house in rehoboth. Go back and forth depending on what we are going.

The stairs in your townhouse are going to kill your old knees and you won't be able to safely drive back and forth to Rehoboth every weekend. Your free time will be spent maintaining and making repairs to your homes or paying someone else to do it. So unrealistic.

Not pp but I know elderly who manage quite well by having stairlifts installed and hire people to drive them around. So negative.

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I had been looking at areas like Charlottesville, but I’m recently coming to realize I want to go back to Manhattan.

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I’d like to retire at 55 and spend months at a time in a new city in places like Southern France, Tuscany, Japan, etc. We would also buy an RV and travel around the US spending time with family and our kids for a portion of the year. Home base would be Washington State where I grew up in the mountains. Hiking, yoga, painting and learning languages and taking higher Ed courses.

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We are on the upper east side of Manhattan.

I have to say the NYC looks pretty darn nice when you are both a young adult and retired. (Too bad we are middle-aged with tweens!)

And, strange but true: New Yorkers are far more helpful and friendly than the people in the DMV suburb that my parents live in.

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I don't understand how everyone is deciding walkability and NYC are the goal. I mean sure they are for a certain % who is really really fit going into retirement and thus as elderly people walking blocks and blocks is no problem. Sure cabs, uber, blah blah but let's be honest when you're in NYC you're on your feet a lot. I was good with it in my 20s-30s, but I can' imagine it at 80+ esp seeing aging relatives - a couple of them could handle NYC but would be tired; the others have all kinds of aches and pains and often get tired just having to stand someplace waiting for service like getting keys back at the car dealership service station; and these are all people in their 70s.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how everyone is deciding walkability and NYC are the goal. I mean sure they are for a certain % who is really really fit going into retirement and thus as elderly people walking blocks and blocks is no problem. Sure cabs, uber, blah blah but let's be honest when you're in NYC you're on your feet a lot. I was good with it in my 20s-30s, but I can' imagine it at 80+ esp seeing aging relatives - a couple of them could handle NYC but would be tired; the others have all kinds of aches and pains and often get tired just having to stand someplace waiting for service like getting keys back at the car dealership service station; and these are all people in their 70s.

My parents retired to NYC and it was great. They didn't walk miles each day, but they could walk to run errands and uber or bus everywhere else. The main "only in new york" thing they did was go to the theater, which requires very little standing. There is great medical care in NYC too.

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely not The Villages

I agree. What a depressing place.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not always easy to move to be near your kids. They may move around and not be settled when you are ready to move. Or your kids my not have kids. If your life doesn't revolve around grandchildren, it doesn't mean you are selfish, my goodness that is quite an assumption the PP is making!

Whenever my mom watches TV and sees a woman in her 60s or 70s being interviewed as a subject matter expert, her first reaction is usually as follows "at her age, she should retire and take care of her grandchildren." It drives me nuts that she can't see past the fact that the woman is a grandmother.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how everyone is deciding walkability and NYC are the goal. I mean sure they are for a certain % who is really really fit going into retirement and thus as elderly people walking blocks and blocks is no problem. Sure cabs, uber, blah blah but let's be honest when you're in NYC you're on your feet a lot. I was good with it in my 20s-30s, but I can' imagine it at 80+ esp seeing aging relatives - a couple of them could handle NYC but would be tired; the others have all kinds of aches and pains and often get tired just having to stand someplace waiting for service like getting keys back at the car dealership service station; and these are all people in their 70s.

70's seems young to be getting that tired. My dad still jogs in his mid 70's, if you are active when you are young you will have less problems when older. My FIL who never exercised in his life is only now having mobility issues at 79. If someone is retiring around 60 I would say they have a good 20 years before it becomes a problem but then again people that keep exercising have good mobility even longer.

Its probably personal to each person but keeping active will certainly help people in retirement.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how everyone is deciding walkability and NYC are the goal. I mean sure they are for a certain % who is really really fit going into retirement and thus as elderly people walking blocks and blocks is no problem. Sure cabs, uber, blah blah but let's be honest when you're in NYC you're on your feet a lot. I was good with it in my 20s-30s, but I can' imagine it at 80+ esp seeing aging relatives - a couple of them could handle NYC but would be tired; the others have all kinds of aches and pains and often get tired just having to stand someplace waiting for service like getting keys back at the car dealership service station; and these are all people in their 70s.

We want walkability because of failing eyesight that will make one of us not be able to drive fairly soon. People retire in their 50 and 60's and have many decades of mobility before needing to be driven most places in their 80's or 90's.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I am fifty and when I retire I am moving into an apt either in downtown D.C. or NYC. I want culture, good food, and walkability.

+1. I am 44. I plan to do the same as you...sell my house, invest the proceeds and rent in a city...likely DC or at least Arlington. I hate suburban life...that is for the kids...not for me.

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I’m 45 and would love to have both a condo in downtown DC or Chicago and then a larger accessible exurbs or rural home that could serve as a place for the kids to enjoy when they’re adults. In reality, we’ll probably only be able to afford one and it would likely be the latter. But having both options seems ideal.