Retirement Dreams

 

I have been looking online at Real Estate lately.  Could I retire to Hawaii?  If I were to retire to Hawaii, where would I live?

Me, retire?  Didn’t I do that twenty years ago?  People retire once, not twice.

It turns out I still have some retirement dreams.  There are places where I would enjoy living.  Hawaii.  Shanghai.  Korea.  Of these, Hawaii seems like the least extreme change.

In Hawaii, I would be stuck on an island with limited shopping and limited things to do.  However, COVID-19 taught me and my family that we didn’t need to go to the grocery store every week.  We survived just fine without the malls and without the zoo.  If we were to live away from it all, we could!  COVID-19 gave us experience at this.

The Big Island offers a mountain with an observatory, a Toastmasters club, a university and other schools, a couple of Costcos, beaches, pleasant weather and 11 climate zones.  For me, this seems enough.

In Hawaii, would we move to a house with upkeep and a yard?  Would we move to a turn-key condo with monthly fees?  I would be happy with a turn-key condo.  A house with a yard offers other benefits my family might enjoy.  Options are available!

Shanghai, Seoul, San Francisco and New York offer metropolitan experiences that I also would like to experience.   Since I also enjoy big cities, I may have to retire a third time!