What do you want/where do you want to live when you are retired?

[Chaostracize]

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For the last 3 years my fiance and I have saved 50% of our gross income. We are really stingy. We try not to blow money on stupid crap we don't need.

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This is very, very impressive. Thank you for getting this thread back on topic.

The boat is definitely not much. Think about it. Whenever someone pisses you off you can just get on the boat, pack a month's worth of food, and be completely isolated.

Speaking of a cigar room, I would love to really get into wine, and then obviously have some enormous collection of wine. Although the collecting of the wine would be difficult, re: drinking the wine.

I'm also envisioning a jacuzzi with a view of untouched forest. That would be so great to go out in the middle of winter, pop a Magic hat, and just sit in the hot time on a cold Sunday morning. Jesus that would be great.

I guess I'd also have to get into crossword puzzles, too. I feel like every somewhat intelligent older person does crosswords from the New York Times, but they are whoa, way too hard for me.

[OtisBlue415]

I'd want season tickets to the Golden State Warriors, anywhere in the lower bowl would be nice. I'd be that old guy there at every game, one the players know by face, the guy riding and schooling the rooks on their mistakes throughout the game but in a grandfatherly sort of way. I wouldn't be too concerned with dress, I wouldn't splurge on clothes but the ones I have will be good quality. I wouldn't eat expensive but not in an unhealthy way either. But I would have a nice luxury car, a Mercedes, probably, assuming my tastes won't change over the years. That's a pretty large assumption to make, but how can you go wrong with a Mercedes?

San Francisco is too cold. I love hot weather, and I'd probably be perfectly at home in Mexico. But I love the Bay Area too much, I love my teams, my family, my home. So I'd live in the hottest part of the bay. I don't want a big home, not a mansion, that just isn't me. Give me a few bedrooms, a fireplace, a basement with a poker table and walls covered with memoribilia. A one story house would be ideal. A porch to sit on. A dog to keep me company. I love to read and write, but that would be an extension of what I've always done.

I would coach someone's basketball team, be it my grandson's or my nephew's or whoever's. I'd stay in as good a shape as I can physically. And of course I'd play poker, although I imagine that my days of playing online will be done the day I turn 21. So I'd have to live close to casino, and I'd be the host of a homegame, probably on monday nights so we could watch football while we play, me and friends. I'd have family over for dinner as much as I can.

All I ask is that I be debt free and surrounded by good people. It ain't much, but I know it'd make me happy.

[prohornblower]

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I'm also envisioning a jacuzzi with a view of untouched forest. That would be so great to go out in the middle of winter, pop a Magic hat, and just sit in the hot time on a cold Sunday morning. Jesus that would be great.

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Man, this sounds great. You've got good ideas. I think you and I have pretty similar desires.

Re: The boat. I wasn't implying that is was "too much" in terms of being ridiculous, but just "too much" in terms of cost/maintenance/hassle...etc. I mean if you are REALLY loaded, then yeah, who cares. Get the boat. I'm definitely in the same boat (nnnhahahaha...hey Lois...look what I did...I said "boat"..nhahaaaaa [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]) when it comes to getting angry at society and going off to be a hermit for a month. I'm just not sure I'd want the responsibility when I'm "retired."