Retirement? Whatchya gonna do?

**Pumbaa** · 01-11-2011, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Airborneguy

I'm moving to Colorado. I'm too familiar with the terrain to start somewhere else. Gonna buy a small farm and get some horses, a few sheep and a ton of chickens. I doubt I'm going to open a business, but that depends on how well I do when I sell my house/houses in NY when the time comes.

EDIT: I love talking about retirement BTW. Worth a thread?

The bar thing I dunno if I would consider it a business. The town I am looking at is population of only 900 and TBH I'd be looking to just break even and if I made any profit from it I'd look at it as a nice surprise. the brewery/distillery aspect would be part of the bar and only because it's something I want to do for myself and figured "WTF I can share"

**jmendez29** · 01-11-2011, 02:27 AM

I figure I have at least twenty years to worry about it, probably more like thirty or more...

I'm hoping that I'll have enough saved up that I don't have to work, but I would because I don't know if I could handle not doing anything. But I kinda had the idea that I would mow grass for a local golf course. Get up early to start the mowing. Golf for a couple hours, be home by noon to start drinkin'. Then I have the rest of the afternoon to get sh!tfaced and yell at the kids to get off my lawn.

That's my dream.

**Airborneguy** · 01-11-2011, 02:29 AM

My plan for a long time has been CO. I was sgtationed there in the Army and unfortunately didn't appreciate it enough to stay.

Do I feel bad taking my publicly funded pension out of NY? NOPE, because they deserve it. This state is horrible for the working man, especially the retired working man.

My goal is to become as self-sufficient as possible after I retire in 11 years at 43. My wife will still be working and I have other investments besides the pension.

More to follow depending on how this discussion develops.

**Yooper** · 01-11-2011, 02:30 AM

I'm figuring that out now. We'll be spending the next few weeks in south/coastal Texas, and be home around March 10. Then I'll see what I feel like doing.

I want to spend time with my grandson, do lots of fishing, spend time at the cottage, and travel. Oh, and brew. Not necessarily in that order.

**Pumbaa** · 01-11-2011, 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Airborneguy

Do I feel bad taking my publicly funded pension out of NY? NOPE, because they deserve it. This state is horrible for the working man, especially the retired working man.

I dont blame ya one bit, maybe because I am in the same boat. Originally I was looking into Wyoming due to the Free State Project they have going on there but when I took that 21 day road trip a few years back I fell in love with a small town in the Flint Creek Valley in Montana just east of the Sapphire Mountains.

Depending on what my financial situation looks like I'll either do the bar thing right in town there -OR- do the ranch thing near by. The counties in Montana I am considering are Granite, Ravalli, Deer Lodge, Silver Bow, Beaverhead, and Madison.

I think the biggest difference is I have to wait until I'm at least 49 but I'll probably be closer to 50/51 (due to my kid still being in high school if I went at 49) and my wife is 6 years older then me and only works part time (when she isnt laid off >.< ) I'm thinking though between my pension, lump sum pension settlement payout from a law suit a few years back when we caught the city stealing, deferred compensation I should be ok to at least get settled and started. I'm just hoping I dont live up to the actuary tables for firemen and make it longer then 4 years past retirement.

**Laughing_Gnome_Invisible** · 01-11-2011, 04:41 AM

Now that I live in America, retirement is just a pipe dream.

There ya go, Pumbaa, feel free to make hay with that one!

**Pumbaa** · 01-11-2011, 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Laughing_Gnome_Invisible

Now that I live in America, retirement is just a pipe dream.

There ya go, Pumbaa, feel free to make hay with that one!

/shrug
even in retirement I wouldnt really consider my plans as retiring . . . next career may be more appropriate

**AZ_IPA** · 01-11-2011, 04:55 AM

Leave it to LGI to bring debate **** into a normal thread...

Regardless of trolls....

I hope to have lots of gardens, fruit trees, chickens, maybe some livestock...a little bit of land - not a lot, an acre or so maybe? Access to water; and I hope a pond to manage as a sustainable fishery.

**Pumbaa** · 01-11-2011, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by AZ_IPA

Leave it to LGI to bring debate **** into a normal thread...

Regardless of trolls....

I hope to have lots of gardens, fruit trees, chickens, maybe some livestock...a little bit of land - not a lot, an acre or so maybe? Access to water; and I hope a pond to manage as a sustainable fishery.

I'm hoping for at least 40 acres, and the whole water thing . . . thats something I am going to have to get used to when I go out west. I'm kinda spoiled with the big puddle we have here in Milwaukee.

blizzard · 01-11-2011, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Pumbaa

The bar thing I dunno if I would consider it a business. The town I am looking at is population of only 900 and TBH I'd be looking to just break even and if I made any profit from it I'd look at it as a nice surprise. the brewery/distillery aspect would be part of the bar and only because it's something I want to do for myself and figured "WTF I can share"

Even small towns need bars. Small towns ESPECIALLY need bars. If there is any tourism there you'll probably be fine.