Ideal Retirement Location?

[Ideologue]

To be honest, I can't see me ever wanting to live outside the States (travel extensively, yeah, but live overseas?  No thanks). 

The problem is, that most of the places in the U.S. I'd like to live from a cultural and social standpoint are places where I'm not crazy about the climate.

I feel the same way.  I'm bred for SC, not for CT.  The Pac NW is probably ok thanks to the ocean current, but New England?  Fuck that shit.  They make the most hideous noises with their mouths too.

[katmai]

[alfred russel]

I want to change my plan.  I would go wherever the spirit moves me.

If the spirit moved you to move to Iowa, I wouldn't trust the spirit anymore.

[garbon]

I'm confused about CT having appeal from a cultural/social standpoint.

[celedhring]

Begur, Girona, SPA



Some other village in the whereabouts works too, it's a truely lovely area.

[The Brain]

My Girona!

[Tonitrus]

San Juan islands, Olympic Peninsula, Methow Valley (Washington State), or Southeast Alaska somewhere (probably Juneau or Ketchikan).

But in reality, I am probably on a course to share the CdM retirement plan.

[Vricklund]

I'm pretty sure I'll never see retirement and that I'll have to work til I drop. The yearly orange envelope containing my retirement esitmates says I can go 2050 but I'm sure they'll keep pushing that limit in front of me like a carrot on a stick.

[Ideologue]

I'm confused about CT having appeal from a cultural/social standpoint.

Bear in mind that my conception of everything north of Baltimore is pretty undifferentiated.

It's not like you treat SC, NC, GA, and AL any differently.

[garbon]

I think you meant to separate those. I have different thoughts on SC&NC vs. AL&GA.

[Ideologue]

I'm curious as to what they are.  I still say it's all East Coast Elites once you get past Maryland.  Certainly once you get to Princeton.  Then it's just ivy-covered brick walls and skyscrapers and bad accents and snowstorms till Bangor.

[garbon]

That's because you are lacking adequate information. There is quite a bit of variety in that stretch of country. I don't even want to know what broad generalizations you draw on California.

[Ideologue]

It's a 24/7 porno sex party north of San Diego, but around SF it gets pretty gay.  It's like that till you reach the Oregon border, where it stays gay but gets smelly, before straight people reappear around Portland.  South of San Diego it's Aztlan and run by the Juarez Cartel, who provide cocaine for the sex party.  The deserts of Sacramento are run by an armed Republican insurgency and led by a deathless robot that escaped from a lab in Palo Alto.  They extort supplies from the decent coastal folks by turning the electricity from Hoover Dam on and off, and by starting forest fires.  Everybody has been in at least three feature films.

[Tonitrus]

Besides the fact that straight people start reappearing as far south as Redding...Ide has it about right.

Well, and Hoover Dam is actually controlled by the Vegas Casino/Prostitution Mafia...he must have mixed that up with control of all the water from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. 

[garbon]

I'm confused on why he drifted into describing Mexico.