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Originally Posted by LoneWolf
While I'm much better off financially than my parents were at 40, I'll end up working harder and longer than they had to later in life. Most of that has to do with the retirement dreams my wife and I have.
My folks were content with retiring in Kansas and living out the rest of their days staring at wheat fields and hedge rows. We have dreams of buying a beachfront condo in Maui and living on the island six months of the year. Fortunately, we've been able to make enough money up to this point in our lives to be on pace to fulfill this dream, but there are times I wonder if it would be easier to work less, have less stress, and have a different retirement plan.
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Why Maui? Why not say, Florida on the ocean? Or even a place like Belize that has a similar climate and landscape, and a fraction of the cost? My line of work has me fortunate enough I will be moving to some version of island paradise in the next couple of years, and earning a larger income because of it. I'm considering St. Thomas as a couple of buddies of mine were just recruited from branson, moved there, and are loving it. I want to wait and see how they feel in a year. Lol