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Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« on: August 07, 2007, 06:52:04 PM »
You can live in Phoenix, Arizona where.....
1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
2. You've experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
3. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5. You know that “dry heat' is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
6. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!

 You can live in California where...
1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway
3. You know how to eat an artichoke.
4. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
6. The 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought
 
You can Live in New York City where...
1. You say 'the city' and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
3. You think Central Park is 'nature,'
4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
5. You've worn out a car horn.
6. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.

You can Live in Maine where...
1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for moose.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and  construction.

You can Live in the Deep South where...
1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2. 'y'all' is singular and 'all y'all' is plural.
3. 'He needed killin'' is a valid defense.
4. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Sue, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc.

You can live in Colorado where...
1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.

You can live in the Midwest where...
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C'  on the same day
4. You end sentences with a preposition: 'Where's my coat  at?'
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say,” It was different!'

 AND You can live in Florida where...
1. You eat dinner at 4:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you are often driven by blind and deaf headless people who may or may not still be breathing.
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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2007, 07:40:54 PM »
I think I'll stay in the Deep Midwest South   ::) ::) ::)

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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2007, 07:58:14 PM »
 lol lol Very Funny Mike!  lol lol

I'm stuck with California or is California stuck with me....If I sell my house I wouldn't be able to afford to buy it.  And I know how to eat artichoke  ;D

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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2007, 08:52:41 PM »
Grew up in Southern California in a family of displaced Oklahomans, so "y'all" was always one of my favorite phrases.  Sold at California prices, bought at Arkansas prices and now live on 3+ acres with a view that goes on forever in a house larger than the one I sold.  The only time I had two names was when I was in trouble, then it was "Lynda Lee!!!!"  I do, however, know how to eat artichokes; love artichokes; can't find a decent artichoke here to save my life!!!!  Someone please take pity on a displaced and occasionally homesick California girl and send artichokes!   {:-P;;

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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2007, 09:41:25 PM »
That's funny, Mikey!!!  O0

I'll stick with the Midwest, thank you!  I visited my daughter quite a bit when she lived in Mesa, AZ (suburb of Phoenix), and the only thing I did love about it was that I could sit on the patio late at night and read, without being eaten alive by mosquitoes.  ;D

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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2007, 05:54:36 AM »
Funneee Mikey. I'm trying to see where Grand Rapids fits there. Maybe the midwest one.

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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2007, 09:01:29 AM »
That's a good one Mikey! ROTFLMSAO! But I'll stick with my Pacific North West here. And Probably stay on the east side of Wash. a spell longer!
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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2007, 09:05:40 AM »
LOL! These are funny. I would have to say the Colorado ones are not quite "on." ;)

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You can live in Colorado where...
1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.

This one is SO not true! Its more like you carry your $3,000 mountain bike on top of your $30,000-$40,000 SUV. ::)

My place butts up against BLM land that is mostly desert and leads to a mountain range that runs from our county down into Eastern Utah. The road I live on leads out to a major set of bike trails at the base of the mountains. I gurantee you will see nothing but expensive vehicles stacked with bikes heading for the desert. In the spring and fall when the temperatures are good the traffic starts on Friday afternoon and goes non-stop until very late and its steady all weekend. Then on Sunday its a madhouse of traffic coming off the desert. Trust me, its not people driving $500 cars. ;D

And we do have passes! ;D The exteme example being Independence Pass, only open during the summer months. It will scare the &^*% out of you.  ;D
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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2007, 01:38:49 PM »
In May we landed in Denver as a stop-over flight en route to Atlanta.  I had never stepped foot in Colorado before but had seen photos and assumed the state was all mountainous and forested.  Since Denver, being the "mile high" city, I assumed it was surrounded by forested mountains.  Both the fetching one and I were completely surprised, and disappointed, upon approaching Denver.  "Where's the mountains?!" we said to each other.  I thought perhaps the pilot overshot Colorado and landed in Kansas.  Flat farmland as far as you could see.
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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2007, 05:14:54 PM »
Sorry, I was late getting home from work today. The car in front of me was being driven by a blind and deaf dead person. lol lol lol

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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2007, 09:35:40 PM »
Mikey,
Denver doesn't look like it's real close to the mountains, but believe me, it is! Less than an hours drive will have you fearing for your life. It is good.  :)
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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2007, 08:26:18 AM »
They've been threatening us with repairing the streets in our neighborhood this whole week.  So far no show.  If they do arrive I'll have to move my van around the corner street so I don't feel locked in IF they start work on my street.

Not free with out a car here to drive 5 minutes to the market.  I've got the California attitude.  Hard to teach an old dog.. 8)

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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2007, 10:15:56 AM »
LOL Mikey! DIA is out towards the plains. Basically, the eastern half of the state is plains, the western half of the state is mostly high desert. The Continental Divide runs down through the middle of the state and that's where you get the mountains. West of Denver the mountains are only about an hour away as Karen mentioned. 4 hours drive over the mountains brings you to the western half of the state to the desert. That's one of the great parts about Colorado. Virtually, no matter where you are, you are a short drive to the mountains and all kinds of recreation.
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Re: Retirement Options of Where to Live After Retirement
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2007, 10:42:53 PM »
I though our California seasons were Drought, Fire Flood, and Earthquake  lol

 

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