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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been thinking about retirement (I'm 45, so still a long way off), and my husband wants to move somewhere nice for retiring.   When I think about moving some place nice, I kind of cringe a little - it's like where you go to slowly die.

No matter my our financial statusI would love to be engaged with my community, friends, family.  Be able to walk everywhere.  Be able to give back to my neighborhood and community in some form or other.  A community with all different ages and life stages.

Going to a retirement town seems like the opposite of that - joining up with other old people, spending a life of leisure, preparing to die...  does everyone want this?[/quote]

We have a winter home in an area with plenty of retirees but we live in a regular neighborhood and not in a gated or retirement community. I’ve gotten incredibly active in the community just as I did 25 years ago in our home town. We can walk to the beach and downtown and we’ve made a lot of good friends. We are all going to die someday but during the winter I can now be outside every day, work in my garden, watch the sunset and enjoy life. [/quote]

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