Perfect place to retire to?
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
Central London, Soho, or anywhere with a W1 postcode. Get rid of the cars, and walk, cycle and use public transport. The very best of everything you could want is on your doorstep.
I'm with this. A pad in Mayfair for business dealings then my Mansion in Guildford for weekend away.TwigtheWonderkid said:
Central London, Soho, or anywhere with a W1 postcode. Get rid of the cars, and walk, cycle and use public transport. The very best of everything you could want is on your doorstep.
It's a mistake to opt for the quiet life as you get older. You need noise, crowds, etc.
That's all twenty minutes on the tube from me at the moment and I grew up hanging round the West End, so not something I'd be bothered with as I get older. The lure of musicals isn't there either. Also a lack of garden is something I wouldn't be keen on. It's a mistake to opt for the quiet life as you get older. You need noise, crowds, etc.
Going to start looking in the Spring for something as a holiday home to begin with a view of retiring to.
Something like this:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/prop...
Robbo 27 said:
Been to many countries and of the few that I would want to retire to New Zealand, is top of the list, high property prices is the only downside.
I visited NZ on a whistle-stop work trip this time last year. Like you, travelled a lot (mainly for work), and very rare anywhere makes much of an impact.
Crikey, that place was a piece of me - and everyone was telling me it wasn't even one of the good parts!
Sway said:
I visited NZ on a whistle-stop work trip this time last year.
Like you, travelled a lot (mainly for work), and very rare anywhere makes much of an impact.
Crikey, that place was a piece of me - and everyone was telling me it wasn't even one of the good parts!
An amazing place, good cities and fantastic countryside, people were great, warm and welcoming. Like you, travelled a lot (mainly for work), and very rare anywhere makes much of an impact.
Crikey, that place was a piece of me - and everyone was telling me it wasn't even one of the good parts!
Robbo 27 said:
Sway said:
I visited NZ on a whistle-stop work trip this time last year.
Like you, travelled a lot (mainly for work), and very rare anywhere makes much of an impact.
Crikey, that place was a piece of me - and everyone was telling me it wasn't even one of the good parts!
An amazing place, good cities and fantastic countryside, people were great, warm and welcoming. Like you, travelled a lot (mainly for work), and very rare anywhere makes much of an impact.
Crikey, that place was a piece of me - and everyone was telling me it wasn't even one of the good parts!
I arrived the day after the shootings there - and still everyone was so warm, friendly and just bloody superb.
The food as well, just staggered me with it's quality and depth.
vixen1700 said:
That's all twenty minutes on the tube from me at the moment and I grew up hanging round the West End, so not something I'd be bothered with as I get older. The lure of musicals isn't there either. Also a lack of garden is something I wouldn't be keen on.
Going to start looking in the Spring for something as a holiday home to begin with a view of retiring to.
Something like this:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/prop...
Looks a lot of place for the money!Going to start looking in the Spring for something as a holiday home to begin with a view of retiring to.
Something like this:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/prop...
GT03ROB said:
Looks a lot of place for the money!
There are shedloads of nice places in that region that are a lot of place for the money. It's nice and warm there, plenty of history if that's your thing and a bit cheaper than Provence. Look forward to a scouting trip there in April or so.
GT03ROB said:
vixen1700 said:
That's all twenty minutes on the tube from me at the moment and I grew up hanging round the West End, so not something I'd be bothered with as I get older. The lure of musicals isn't there either. Also a lack of garden is something I wouldn't be keen on.
Going to start looking in the Spring for something as a holiday home to begin with a view of retiring to.
Something like this:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/prop...
Looks a lot of place for the money!Going to start looking in the Spring for something as a holiday home to begin with a view of retiring to.
Something like this:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/prop...
Wacky Racer said:
Fish & chips at The Magpie in Whitby
Probably the coldest I've ever been in my life was on a Bram Stoker walk in Whitby in late October. The wind from the North Sea literally cut you in half.Jeez, I gauge cold weather against that, and nothing has come close since. f
k me that was cold. Pat H said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Central London, Soho, or anywhere with a W1 postcode. Get rid of the cars, and walk, cycle and use public transport. The very best of everything you could want is on your doorstep.
Jesus. Sod that. I'd rather be dead.give me a sprawling country pile surrounded by moors and mountains, Scottish highlands perhaps.
deadtom said:
likewise, that sounds a thoroughly miserable existence.
give me a sprawling country pile surrounded by moors and mountains, Scottish highlands perhaps.
I am 71 and not retired. However I have always lived in city centres. Restaurants, theatre,access to convenient medical care and so on are hugely important. I do not fancy being in some remote place looking for medical care at 80. Also most of my friends are close by. give me a sprawling country pile surrounded by moors and mountains, Scottish highlands perhaps.
Main house is an old place in central Toronto and have a place in Scottsdale Az. Pretty area but I miss the buzz of business if I am there too long.
I work because I enjoy it and there is nothing I nee to buy.
The Algarve, Portugal. Moved here 2 years ago. Not fully retired, only 50 but plenty of free time to enjoy my sports, cycle - road and MTB - racing mainly.
Most of my friends are local Portuguese, I've fully assimilated to the customs and culture, have nothing to do with expat groups, I'm an immigrant and immersed myself into living here.
Easy to do, of course, when it is a popular International tourist destination with very friendly locals and everything a foreign tourist might want available so it was really just a case of joining a local Cycling Club and the rest took care of itself.
Typically my day begins with checking on work stuff, then walking my dog followed by a 2-4 hr cycle training ride which can take me to the beautiful coastal areas and the Monchique mountains and forests.
Winter sees highs of 16 mostly, sometimes to 20C.
Over 300 days of Sun. Never too cold, never too hot.
Anywhere in Europe is quick and easy to get to. Compared to my life in the UK, this is 100% better.
Most of my friends are local Portuguese, I've fully assimilated to the customs and culture, have nothing to do with expat groups, I'm an immigrant and immersed myself into living here.
Easy to do, of course, when it is a popular International tourist destination with very friendly locals and everything a foreign tourist might want available so it was really just a case of joining a local Cycling Club and the rest took care of itself.
Typically my day begins with checking on work stuff, then walking my dog followed by a 2-4 hr cycle training ride which can take me to the beautiful coastal areas and the Monchique mountains and forests.
Winter sees highs of 16 mostly, sometimes to 20C.
Over 300 days of Sun. Never too cold, never too hot.
Anywhere in Europe is quick and easy to get to. Compared to my life in the UK, this is 100% better.
Johnnytheboy said:
I bought my idyllic cottage off a just-over-retirement-age couple, who were actually moving to near where I sold.
They were unusually keen to know how good the local GP surgery was where I'd come from, whereas I was cooing over the lovely big garden they were selling me, which they seemed keen to be rid of.
amusingly since our respective parents have had their various ailments our view on what would constitute a good retirement spot has been amended. We've never seen the attraction of a big garden but wouldn't have really thought too much about docs or hospitals within easy reach but as we'd be looking for our 'forever house' it's suddenly been brought into focus as has proximity of a 'village store'. With all that being said I could still not think of anywhere worse to live than in a big city (London/Brum/Mancetc)They were unusually keen to know how good the local GP surgery was where I'd come from, whereas I was cooing over the lovely big garden they were selling me, which they seemed keen to be rid of.
Southern Italy: https://international-adviser.com/italy-lures-reti...
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Central London, Soho, or anywhere with a W1 postcode. Get rid of the cars, and walk, cycle and use public transport. The very best of everything you could want is on your doorstep.
It's a mistake to opt for the quiet life as you get older. You need noise, crowds, etc.
That would be hell on earth for me already, and I'm not yet fifty!It's a mistake to opt for the quiet life as you get older. You need noise, crowds, etc.
My idea of heaven (which will probably be Shropshire) is being able to head out of my front door with a couple of dogs, walk a couple of hours in pretty much any direction, find a nice pub for lunch then walk back home again. Happy to chat to people in the pub, but equally happy not to see another human being the whole way there any back.
Empty roads 8 months of the year, zero car crime, nobody locks doors (homes or cars), stunning scenery, free healthcare, doctors appointments on the same day, proper clean air, friendly neighbours, no traffic jams, low cost housing, no tuition fees, free hospital car parking, excellent old age social care, virtually no violent crime...
... bugger: can't do 20C I'm afraid. Good luck with the rest
... bugger: can't do 20C I'm afraid. Good luck with the rest
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