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Anonymous wrote:Somewhere with the climate of southern California, but with a lower COL. Anyone know where that is?

Inyo or El Centro, right along the southern border, though if Trump gets his way, there will be an ugly wall there. Basically anywhere inland is cheaper than coastal CA.

El Centro is hellish. And I say that as someone from the Central Valley.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm staying in DC. I like it here and I'm a native. The weather and COL are fine.

I think it's because you've never lived anywhere else better ?

+1

Anonymous wrote:I'm staying in DC. I like it here and I'm a native. The weather and COL are fine.

+1 but we are moving to a condo.

I want to retire somewhere in a little village in Central America or Mexico. Someplace like Costa Rica or Belize. Why? Because I have followed the safe and boring path my whole life from growing up in Northeast suburbia to a Big Ten College, to DC and now a suburb to raise my kids. I want to do something more adventurous if I'm healthy. If I'm not healthy, then prob Florida or California. Wherever it is, it has to be very warm all year.

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Anonymous wrote:Somewhere with the climate of southern California, but with a lower COL. Anyone know where that is?

Arizona.

Awesome. Any particular area or city?

Prescott. the weather is waaaay better than phoeniz or Tuscon. My FIL lives there and we when land in phoenix is 105 degress but two hours north in the mnts is 85 in the summer. THey have a super cute historic downtown, lots of outdoor activities and some nice neighborhoods and lots of retirees

I read a while ago that Prescott was a good place to retire. I'm just nervous about the lack of water out west. And I'm originally from CA.

Anonymous wrote:I'm staying in DC. I like it here and I'm a native. The weather and COL are fine.

I think it's because you've never lived anywhere else better ?

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Anonymous wrote:We'll retire wherever our kids are to be close to them and our grandchildren.

I'm a mom to grown kids. Two of them are married with kids. Planning to retire near your grandkids sounds great, but it probably won't work. We live in a society where people move all the time with their jobs. I have kids in Colorado, Georgia, Nebraska. and Florida. We live in DC with our high schooler. Unless you plan to follow them around (which is creepy) you're better off retiring in a place you know they will love to visit.

Yep, my siblings and I are bicoastal. Dw's siblings are dotted around the world - 3 different continents. We decided that we will retire where we want to because we have no idea where the kids will eventually end up.

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Anonymous wrote:We'll retire wherever our kids are to be close to them and our grandchildren.

I'm a mom to grown kids. Two of them are married with kids. Planning to retire near your grandkids sounds great, but it probably won't work. We live in a society where people move all the time with their jobs. I have kids in Colorado, Georgia, Nebraska. and Florida. We live in DC with our high schooler. Unless you plan to follow them around (which is creepy) you're better off retiring in a place you know they will love to visit.

+100
I live in a predominantly retirement community in Tennessee (there are many families with children and some who continue to work). It is lovely, and close to good hospitals and health care.
Our two kids live in different states - they have both moved twice and could well move again. They come to us to visit and we go to them. There are many fun things for our kids (and future grandkids) to do when they visit. I am not going to spend retirement following them around.
Love where we live now. Low cost of living, low taxes, great climate, wonderful outdoor activities, mountains close, and incredibly friendly people.
We couldn’t be happier.

Anonymous wrote:I'm retiring where the grandkids are.

I'm from south florida and it's so sad to see all these elderly people who miss their families. They all complain about how no one wants to come visit them, but their kids are busy with their own kids and jobs. The elderly should have retired near their families if that's what they wanted.

I'm the PP who has a retirement home in Ponte Vedra, Florida. Our kids come home all. the. time. This year all five (+spouses and grandkids) were here Christmas and summer. Two of them came home for Thanksgiving as well. I had my grandkids over Spring Break. We haven't had any trouble getting people to visit us at our home on the water, near the beach, two hours from Disney.

Anonymous wrote:We'll retire wherever our kids are to be close to them and our grandchildren.

I'm a mom to grown kids. Two of them are married with kids. Planning to retire near your grandkids sounds great, but it probably won't work. We live in a society where people move all the time with their jobs. I have kids in Colorado, Georgia, Nebraska. and Florida. We live in DC with our high schooler. Unless you plan to follow them around (which is creepy) you're better off retiring in a place you know they will love to visit.

I'm retiring where the grandkids are.

I'm from south florida and it's so sad to see all these elderly people who miss their families. They all complain about how no one wants to come visit them, but their kids are busy with their own kids and jobs. The elderly should have retired near their families if that's what they wanted.

We bought our retirement home in Ponte Vedra, Florida. We live in it when we are not in DC. It's perfect. On the water. 10 minutes from the beach. Golf, swim, tennis community with a huge splash park and swimming pools for grandkids. I can walk out my back door onto our sailboat.

We are 50. DH retires at 57. I work part time and will probably keep working because I love my 25 hour a week job. Our older kids are grown and gone. Our high schooler has one foot out the door. We are almost there!

We want to be closer to the shore so our top pics right now are Delaware shore or Virginia Beach. Love OBX too, but I'm thinking it is too far from a major airport (another requirement).

We'll retire wherever our kids are to be close to them and our grandchildren.

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Anonymous wrote:Savannah. I grew up there and want to get back. Now, to convince DH.

I love Savannah, and the Low Country in general, and most retirees don't have to worry about schools (which are an issue there), but the crime situation is out of control. The current Mayor ran on a commitment to get it under control, but apparently the murder rate is actually up quite a bit over last year, which was up from the year before. The way Savannah is laid out, it's hard to avoid the dangerous areas, unless you want to live in a gated community, which, to me, misses the point of Savannah. I'd move there in a heartbeat if they could get this under control. As it is, we're looking at St. Simons.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/health/savannah-georgia-high-murder-rate/

Yea, I want to move back to one of those gated communities (where I grew up) on the water. I took DH to visit a few years ago and he hated it with the passion of 1000 suns.

I have an Aunt who retired to St Simons, and loves it.