Where will you retire ?

Greetings fellow ORGAHS !!!

I was sitting here thinking of my retirement plans.

My retirement is probably about 30 years away, basically quite far. BUT I've thought about that since I graduated from university about 10 years ago. Well you know.... strategy, think ahead, plan ahead. Always one step ahead SOLDIERS !!!

I used to think about Italy, then Greece. I've just changed my mind, at this moment I think it's going to be THAILAND.

Nothing I've seen so far beats Thailand's vibe. You just get off the plane in Bangkok and you feel it straight away, that happy, fun, positive and just awesome vibe. Such a great place. Plus if you earn in Europe or America, you can retire there, much much earlier, than you can in your home country.

Was just wondering if anyone else is thinking about retirement and where would you retire ?

Thailand is nice, I agree.

I considered Belize, so that my retirement money would stretch further (on the off-chance that I actually DO live to see 100 years :laugh4: ), but apparently many others of my countrymen had the same idea, and the cost-of-living there is rising dramatically over the past few years.

So I've revised my thinking, and decided I should either stay in the US, or move to Canada, finding a small uni town where I could open a small store or pub to keep me busy, and provide a little sustenance income, while keeping fairly close to cultural life (uni theater, music, etc) and medical help, if my or Mrs. Kukri's health fails.

I'm rapidly moving from the "dream" stage to the "plan" stage about retirement. Work sends me a letter every six months reminding me that I'm eligible already. But I'll stay on the job for at least another 6 years - until Mrs K is also eligible.

note: for years, my dream reirement was a little cottage in Ireland, where I'd tend my garden and argue politics daily down at the pub.

Argentina. Love the culture, the accents, and the food, drink, and sea, sun, and pampa.

I'm thinking of putting up a horse ranch or a gambling den. Haven't decided:dizzy2:

I'm 15, but whatever. I would stay in my lovely Canada, for the rest of my life. Its a beautiful place. I live in the city right now so i would probably move out of Ontario and into Alberta and live in the peaceful country sides. (Yes there are buffalo's and ponies)

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Originally Posted by SwordsMaster

Argentina. Love the culture, the accents, and the food, drink, and sea, sun, and pampa.

I'm thinking of putting up a horse ranch or a gambling den. Haven't decided:dizzy2:

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Racetrack!

Montana or Alaska or Hawaii. Have only been to one of the three so far.

Love to visit but I could only live here

I'm perhaps too young to even think about retirement, and given the course of one's life so far, I'll probably just wind up in some dodgy retirement home in the most backwater part of England. Reality (arse-like as it is) aside, I'd love to retire to New Zealand, or Canada.

Probably the Antarctic.

By the time I retire it will be a tropical paradise due to global warming. ~;)

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lol, really; I was thinking of the USA. :)


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Its about 50 years down the track... but I would like to think I would remain in Suburban Sydney.

I win the lotto at 18 and buy half of Texas.


thats is all

A nice property on Lake Van! Take a boat out to go to liturgy at Aktamar!
Backup plan(s): Undecided, either Kotayk and have access to all that delicious tasty Kotayk--or live somewhere else and enjoy Kilikia, Kotayk and Erebuni without raising eyebrows and fists--, Kekharkunik with some nice Sevan lakeside property, move back to the family land in Ararat or the countryside of Syunik.

I really want to go to cooler place. so Somewhere in Canada would be nice.

Arbarta so I get to meet RK:laugh4:

But im still about 50 years away till retiring

It's never to early to think, men.

After all we need some goal at the end... a heroic victory (don't take it literally). But it's best to think, develop your ideas, and act on them.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I met this guy once, Mitchell S, one of America's finest. I met him in 2000. He was my supervisor at work. We went out for lunch and I ordered the 7.5 Euro meal of the day, and no drinks. He asked me why I was ordering that and no drinks. I answered that I eat to live, & not live to eat, plus there's free water back at the workplace, on top of that I'm on a budget. Intrigued, he asked me more I told him I'm on a budget and I hope one day to travel the world and see all different cultures. Next day he asked to see my budget, I showed him, had it on my work PC via email. Since then he moved on, went back to the States, after his deputation in Europe, but he still pops me the occasional email saying thanks for that day, because now I did this.... and this, thanks to you. HAHA ! I'm laughing because before that he did'nt even have a budget.

I was 24-25 then IIRC, it's never too early really. You can have fun and save. The sooner you do, the sooner you can realize a future that, when you are there, you won't believe you really are there.

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Originally Posted by Sinan

It's never to early to think, men.

After all we need some goal at the end... a heroic victory (don't take it literally). But it's best to think, develop your ideas, and act on them.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I met this guy once, Mitchell S, one of America's finest. I met him in 2000. He was my supervisor at work. We went out for lunch and I ordered the 7.5 Euro meal of the day, and no drinks. He asked me why I was ordering that and no drinks. I answered that I eat to live, & not live to eat, plus there's free water back at the workplace, on top of that I'm on a budget. Intrigued, he asked me more I told him I'm on a budget and I hope one day to travel the world and see all different cultures. Next day he asked to see my budget, I showed him, had it on my work PC via email. Since then he moved on, went back to the States, after his deputation in Europe, but he still pops me the occasional email saying thanks for that day, because now I did this.... and this, thanks to you. HAHA ! I'm laughing because before that he did'nt even have a budget.

I was 24-25 then IIRC, it's never too early really. You can have fun and save. The sooner you do, the sooner you can realize a future that, when you are there, you won't believe you really are there.

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A great story :2thumbsup: . Good to know you changed a life for the better.

I think it depends if I'm tired of city life by the time I retire. If I'm not, I'd like to stay in London. If I am, perhaps a nice bit of Kent, maybe somewhere on the south coast. Or somewhere abroad, cool and with nice forests. Although I think I would miss Britain a lot. In fact, scratch that last, I don't think I could be an expat.

I would have loved to retire in either the US or Australia.
The way our economy is developing I could have lived well in either.
The question would be; Hot or temperate? Brisbane my second home, would probably get too hot for an old man. But hey, I could come home to Norway and celebrate Christmas with my kids and grandkids.

The reality is, it would only be a dream.

One of the Channel islands , it has its perks .

It has always been my plan to move to a renovated old stone house in the English, French, or German countryside about 30 to 45 minutes from a large city. Whatever it is, it will be European. I'm getting mighty tired of the US. The 'rural' European lifestyle is much better suited to the enjoyment of life.

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Originally Posted by Sinan

I was 24-25 then IIRC, it's never too early really. You can have fun and save. The sooner you do, the sooner you can realize a future that, when you are there, you won't believe you really are there.

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I fully agree and this is the basis of my savings/investment plan. I aim to 'retire' when I'm 40-45, not 60-65. I probably won't stop working then, but I'll do jobs that interest me without regard to the pay and I'll move on when I get bored.

Somewhere by the Mediterranian Sea!!!

On a 2nd thought, any sea, but some green and mountains should be around.....
Or 2 casas: one in the Green & one by the Sea.....

On a 3rd thought: where I live now is pretty nice too...I guess I will stick around here for the next 10-15 years.....:holiday:

Long Lake in the Adirondacks. Or anywhere in Vermont/New Hampshire, love at first sight.

Probably in a cardboard box on the sidewalk outside the house of the richest of my ex-girlfriends.

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Originally Posted by Subedei

On a 2nd thought, any sea, but some green and mountains should be around.....

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Sounds like Transcaucasia. (Maybe lakes instead of sea)

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Originally Posted by IrishArmenian

Sounds like Transcaucasia. (Maybe lakes instead of sea)

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Good enough...if the lakes are big enough....[off to do some research on Transcaucasia]:book:

Hmmm. I'm thinking perhaps of coming back to my roots back here in Iowa after I inevitably leave it for 'greener' pastures, so to speak. In fact, I've got just the place in mind, a nice, relatively small home back on the street I first grew up on. Eh, I'm a sucker for nostalgia.

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Originally Posted by Strike For The South

I win the lotto at 18 and buy half of Texas.


thats is all

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Nice to know that Texas is only worth a few hundred million dollars...

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Personally, I don't plan to retire, in the normal sense of the word. I'd like to be gently guiding my empire until my dying day, from the comfort of whichever of my residences I should feel in the mood to be gracing with my presence.

My wife is well insured and if she keeps on eating the soup I make for her, I think I may be able to retire to a small landholding in Honolulu in about... 3 years.
Alternatively, her doctor will advise her of the poison during one of her "girly" checkups. Then I have 2 choices, either finish the job with a sledgehammer or spend my retirement at the mercy of "Mr Big" :sweatdrop: and his over hormoned gang of brothers in the communal showers whilst at Her Majesty's pleasure.

Personally I prefer the Honolulu option. Wish me luck guys.

I don't think retirement is in the cards for me. I've been saving heavily since the day I graduated from college, and even with 30 years to go, I've got 4 years gross salary socked away. It won't be enough. No amount will be. One of the things that scares me the most about the future is outliving my savings and becoming a burden to my children. I won't allow that to happen. The only way I can guarantee that is to not retire. Slow down... sure. But stop? Nope, can't do it.

Now, if I somehow manage to become financially indepdent and don't require an external cashflow?

Santorini. I'll ride that damn donkey down the caldera every morning, lay on the beach all day, then ride it back up every evening. A nice bottle of wine at a tavern, then stumble home to bed. Maybe a nice book every now and then.

I would like to retire in Hell.

Cheerful.


As for me, I cannot imagine living anywhere but the Higlands of Scottland for a long period of my life, so thats where it will be. As for when, well, the earliest possible oportunity sounds good. Though I think I have got at least 30 years to go, probably.


Ahh, I can't be bothered working.:sweatdrop:

I think I'll retire now...:beam:

Well as for me. I dunno. But I intend to have travelled half the globe before I'll finally make up my mind. Though there are a few places I'm thinking about living in I want to visit them first before I make up my mind. ~D

All good ideas. There's also Southern Europe, quite cheap (er) i.e Italy, Spain (flooded with Sterling), Greece (!!!). At the moment I'm still stuck on Thailand. I'll be surprised if I change my mind. A nice little restaurant to keep me cooking, I will finally be head chef! a (row)boat with a massive sail moored a few meters in the tsunami... err... sea, BIG EU flag and THAI flag on the boat, and restaurant! What else, hopefully I get some time off, it's already starting to sound like work. Joking aside Í'm dead serious, already added a few hundred to the savings this month. Just a couple of decades to go, hope I make it ! Ofc things can change by then, let's hope the world is a better place.

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Originally Posted by Sinan

Ofc things can change by then.

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Yes, especially if you have kids

......Orda

Indeed.

That's in the plan, I only need to find a woman, who meets my standards and that I can settle with.

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Originally Posted by Sinan

All good ideas. There's also Southern Europe, quite cheap (er) i.e Italy, Spain (flooded with Sterling), Greece (!!!). At the moment I'm still stuck on Thailand. I'll be surprised if I change my mind. A nice little restaurant to keep me cooking, I will finally be head chef! a (row)boat with a massive sail moored a few meters in the tsunami... err... sea, BIG EU flag and THAI flag on the boat, and restaurant! What else, hopefully I get some time off, it's already starting to sound like work. Joking aside Í'm dead serious, already added a few hundred to the savings this month. Just a couple of decades to go, hope I make it ! Ofc things can change by then, let's hope the world is a better place.

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Sounds really great. I'm intend to visit Asia at some point. Thailand as well because I'd be able to stay with the family of a Thai exchange student we had living with us for a year. I also have people I can stay with in Japan, Taiwan, China, Singapore, New Caledonia and Tahiti which is really cool. But outside of the Pacific/East Asia area it gets quite a bit more expensive to travel. :wall:

Only on the NZ dollar my friend. Stay in school, get a degree (that you can travel on) or a trade and travel as you work.

Far better earning US$ or Euro's or pounds and travelling on that than NZ monopoly money.

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Originally Posted by El Diablo

Only on the NZ dollar my friend. Stay in school, get a degree (that you can travel on) or a trade and travel as you work.

Far better earning US$ or Euro's or pounds and travelling on that than NZ monopoly money.

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Yeah, probably. But I can't go to university until I'm 20. And so far I've saved up $4200 and going to be working full time as of next week to pay for a trip to Europe which I'm planning for mid next year. :tongue2:

Thats some impressive saving - hope that you have an awesome trip.

The thing about Europe is it is so huge - so much history - so much culture so many options of travel.

I am jealous of your impending trip. I loved it over there.

I wouldn't mind retiring in the Bay of Islands. Nice spot and quite literal in its naming.

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Originally Posted by Hepcat

Yeah, probably. But I can't go to university until I'm 20. And so far I've saved up $4200 and going to be working full time as of next week to pay for a trip to Europe which I'm planning for mid next year. :tongue2:

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Visiting Hayastan, yes?

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Originally Posted by IrishArmenian

Visiting Hayastan, yes?

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Yes, eventually. My cousins raved about that little republic in the caucuses so much that I can't help but want to go there. :laugh4:

Though first I'm going to the Netherlands to meet up with my grandfather's family who I've never met before. That's because my grandfather and his brother, after serving in the Dutch army in Indonesia, went to Australia where my great uncle chose to stay but my grandfather chose to make a further step to NZ and lost all contact with his family. He's lived and retired here and doesn't want to go back to Holland, on my trip to the Netherlands I'll be meeting a side of the family we've known nothing about until in the 1990s when his sister tracked both him and his brother down in Oz and NZ by reading phone books.

Next I'd like to go to Armenia, in fact I'll be staying with an Armenian family in Belgium. I do also intend to visit Turkey as well, however, which probably sounds quite stupid and unrealistic since they hate each other. ~:mecry:
Though hopefully as a New Zealander I won't be affected by the politics between the two places when I'm going there and can enjoy both places.

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Originally Posted by El Diablo

Thats some impressive saving - hope that you have an awesome trip.

The thing about Europe is it is so huge - so much history - so much culture so many options of travel.

I am jealous of your impending trip. I loved it over there.

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Thanks, I've been hoarding every cent of the money from my job since February for this. One thing I can do well is save money. I think it must be something I got from the Dutch side of the family. ~D

Anyway, back on topic. By the time I retire I intend to have more flags in my sig than you El Diablo. :tongue2:
But although I may retire in a different country I'm never going to let myself or anyone forget the little island nation I was born in. ~D

Good luck with the flag gathering Hepcat!!!

My only prerequisite for putting a flag in my sig was having "had a beer there" so some I would hardly call well travelled.

I have a close friend of mine who has travelled to over 1/3 of the worlds countries. I call her a walking catastrophy though as disaters seem to follow her.

She had to litterally run for the Boxing day Tsunami and it took me ages to contact her after the London underground bombings - obviously nothing to do with her, but I was still nervous when she came to stay at mine earlier this year (having come from South America and on her way to China/Nepal/Tibet via SE asia).

Now SHE would have some flags!!!

As a New Zealander, you'll be fine and many visit Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan all in the same trip. The key to travelling either from Turkey to Armenia or vice versa is to pass through another country on the trip so that no one knows you came from one or the other, other than your passport.

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Originally Posted by IrishArmenian

As a New Zealander, you'll be fine and many visit Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan all in the same trip. The key to travelling either from Turkey to Armenia or vice versa is to pass through another country on the trip so that no one knows you came from one or the other, other than your passport.

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Thats good to know. Thanks. :bow:

Sorry for hijacking the thread. :oops:

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Originally Posted by Mother Yoda

I would like to retire in Hell.

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lol :laugh4:


I like to retire in Swisszland (bad spelling :laugh4: ) :yes: