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[quote=Anonymous]I want to have different phases of retirement. Since my wife is planning to retire a few years before I do, I would like to live in an older fixer-upper house during that time. She wants to get a dog, do some hiking and kayaking and such, and I want to renovate a house. I don't mind a longer commute--something on MARC or VRE would be good, and I figure by then teleworking a few days a week would be the norm. Ideally we'd keep our place in DC as well so we can stay over when renovations get too messy or if we want to see a baseball game or a play or I have an early meeting.

When we're both retired, I'd want to sell the now-renovated fixer-upper and our DC townhouse and move to a spacious condo in an elevator building in or near DC. The kind of place where we have a decent amount of room, but an accessible bathroom and no stairs in the unit, and there is a staffed front desk and ideally an indoor pool and gym and covered parking and the like. We would volunteer a lot, travel, I want to get a personal trainer and be in the senior olympics, that sort of thing.

If we got to a point that cooking, cleaning, and such got hard, I'd want to move to a continuing care community--not sure where. Probably depends where my nieces and other younger family members, and our friends, end up so there are people to keep an eye on us (we don't have kids). 
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