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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Decided that 52 was the time to retire, sell our home in MARYLAND and buy our retirement home in North Carolina while we are healthy and able to settle into our new community.

The Mrs is able to work from home in her current position, and has great healthcare.

Our new home is a great upgrade from our MARYLAND residence, taxes and auto insurance are considerably less and no more snow and far less traffic, a huge quality of life improvement for us.

Stop thinking about it and do it, you’ll be happier and more relaxed than you know.

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I think you are smart.  My dad saw too many people get a terminal illness or die 50s/60s without ever getting to enjoy retirement.  His own parents lived until late-80s but you never know.

He retired at 62 (37 years as a Fed).  He had a glorious 14-years of tons of travel, lots of time with the grandkids.  He got a cancer diagnosis at 69-early stage that didn’t set him back, but at 75 it came back Stage IV and he passed at 76.  He was so vibrant and healthy it came as a shock.

What gives me comfort is that he had a great 14-years of retirement just like he wanted.

I think people need to be careful banking on the age their parents made it to as an indicator of their lifespan.  As my dad’s oncologist stated, there is so much more disease around because of environment/pollution/additives in food, etc. than our predecessors and treatments aren’t as far a long as people like to think.

I plan to get out early too![/quote]

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