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Waiting for the pizza at Wegmans (local grocery store).
 
ThirstyPawsHB said:
Shed organizing part 10. We've...err, "we've" 😉, officially decided to move to Puerto Rico for an early retirement. Ergo, home remodeling version 4 begins. Might as well see what I have.

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My wife and I have kicked around the same idea, which is the closest she’s ever gotten me to talk about retirement. Her dad is living there part time & in FL part time.

Our kid is lobbying hard for New Zealand.

I told them, I have to get to the end of my current project (early-2023 to mid-2024 depending on change orders) and we can decide as a family.

Tonight is a blue curaçao margarita because tomorrow morning I’ll be putting the ‘fun’ in superfund.

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GBRbrew said:
My parents lived there for 5 years (work related) if your not in a gated community or a resort the crime, drugs and poverty are terrible.
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It's been about 2 years of talk about the PR move. Wife went on vacation there and fell in love and hasn't stop talking about moving there because it's so "cheep". All my research/YouTube searches indicates the opposite. Like you said ex-pats should live in a gated community, but then $$$. But we also will still have a school aged grandchild to care for and that's 6yrs of a private school at 10K+/yr. Besides the pretty beaches don't see any bonus. The humid environment destroys homes so upkeep cost are much higher. Roads are atrocious. Food cost is higher unless you're living off local fruit. Medical is less but specialist are non-existent and the grandson needs a couple. Electricity cost are double Austin and you have to run A/C 24/7. Gave her the option of one hell of a travel budget instead. I finally made our property the way I want it and definitely don't want to start over. New Zealand looks very pretty but I believe it's much higher costs then the US but probably much safer then PR.

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Island living is just flat out expensive. I can tell you from living on a ferry-only island and a bridged island here in WA - especially food, utilities, & fuel. They are also less reliable because there are fewer system redundancies.

Puerto Rico is especially expensive because the Jones Act requires everything shipped to PR to pass through a mainland port first. That’s basically everything unnecessarily spending a week on a container ship passing PR on its way to the mainland and another week coming back.

I think it’s mostly fuel that would make New Zealand expensive for me. I’d have to sacrifice my preference of living outside of cities.
 
ThirstyPawsHB said:
Hopefully the Puerto Rico move is officially off. So cheers to that!

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I hear it's a beautiful place but also extremely dangerous. I have 2 army buddies I served with that grew up there and still live there and they tell me to come visit and not to freak out when the cabs drive right through red lights or do 80 mph through crowded areas to bypass the gang bangers. And to ignore the automatic machine guns blazing nearby 😯
 
ThirstyPawsHB said:
It's been about 2 years of talk about the PR move. Wife went on vacation there and fell in love and hasn't stop talking about moving there because it's so "cheep". All my research/YouTube searches indicates the opposite. Like you said ex-pats should live in a gated community, but then $$$. But we also will still have a school aged grandchild to care for and that's 6yrs of a private school at 10K+/yr. Besides the pretty beaches don't see any bonus. The humid environment destroys homes so upkeep cost are much higher. Roads are atrocious. Food cost is higher unless you're living off local fruit. Medical is less but specialist are non-existent and the grandson needs a couple. Electricity cost are double Austin and you have to run A/C 24/7. Gave her the option of one hell of a travel budget instead. I finally made our property the way I want it and definitely don't want to start over. New Zealand looks very pretty but I believe it's much higher costs then the US but probably much safer then PR.

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Puerto Rico is a U.S territory...you wouldn't be an ex Pat 😶
 
Well not drinking it yet...and don't know if I will. Neighbors gave me this as part of a Xmas mixed pack. I'm not even fond of most IPA's and this one has Spruce tip pineneedles in it ! In my book that's just alcoholic PINESOL !!! I don't know wether to thank them or call the police and poison control center for attempted homicide 😵😵😵 😂😂😂
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seanjwalker1 said:
Well not drinking it yet...and don't know if I will. Neighbors gave me this as part of a Xmas mixed pack. I'm not even fond of most IPA's and this one has Spruce tip pineneedles in it ! In my book that's just alcoholic PINESOL !!! I don't know wether to thank them or call the police and poison control center for attempted homicide 😵😵😵 😂😂😂View attachment 754820
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Give it a try! Spruce is a classic beer flavoring. Haven't had one in a while, but I recall enjoying one out of Vermont very much. An imperial stout. Wish I recalled the brewery.

Edit: Found it! Didn't even remember it being a pumpkin ale.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1805/52548/
 
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seanjwalker1 said:
Well not drinking it yet...and don't know if I will. Neighbors gave me this as part of a Xmas mixed pack. I'm not even fond of most IPA's and this one has Spruce tip pineneedles in it ! In my book that's just alcoholic PINESOL !!! I don't know wether to thank them or call the police and poison control center for attempted homicide 😵😵😵 😂😂😂View attachment 754820
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I don't know Sean. It's from Bell's and I've never had anything that Larry made that wasn't good.
 
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HB BA Stout. This is to my friend who lost his wife earlier today. She was an amazing woman with a heart of gold and nothing but positivity! Even though she beat cancer twice and this third time was brutal, she and her husband were always looking at the positives in life even during these hard last few days. She was one of my wife’s best friends and her oldest daughter and ours are best friends too. Heck our families are very close so this hits home for all of us.
Cancer sucks!!!!
 
pshankstar said:
View attachment 754871HB BA Stout. This is to my friend who lost his wife earlier today. She was an amazing woman with a heart of gold and nothing but positivity! Even though she beat cancer twice and this third time was brutal, she and her husband were always looking at the positives in life even during these hard last few days. She was one of my wife’s best friends and her oldest daughter and ours are best friends too. Heck our families are very close so this hits home for all of us.
Cancer sucks!!!!
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How sad. Condolences.
 

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