If given the choice at retirement, which would you choose and why?
By sandymay48
@sandymay48 (2030)
Canada
March 26, 2009 9:04pm CST
Lets just say you are 65 and retiring this week...yahoo!!!...lol..
Upon retirement you have 3 choices of where you are going to live.
Mobile home in a mobile home park
MOtorhome..48 foot RV
apartment
You have $1000 a month to live on, where are you going to choose to live? You have no rent or payments on either of these except normal utilities and ofcourse gas for the RV and food etc.
I think at first I would choose the motorhome and take off around the country..I would do this as long as I could, and then Im not sure which of the other 2 I would take. I would have to see the park and apartment to decide...
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4 responses
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
27 Mar 09
If they were my only choices I'd keep working. Trailer park - well, I've done that, and hated it. Travelling, well, I've spent a good part of my life as a touring musician, and I'm definitely over that. An apartment, well, that sort of brings to mind urban living with all its faults, and I've already opted out of that.
Now if you'd included a cottage in a semi-rural area as well (or as an alternative to the apartment), that's what I'd choose. Er, come to think of it, that's what I DID choose lol.
Lash
@sandymay48 (2030)
• Canada
27 Mar 09
hehehehe...well that would be the ideal choice..I agree..I dont like trailor parks either or apts..but I do love to travel...
But sorry, the cottage wasnt an option..so now I guess you have to move..
@beachstarz (1092)
• United States
27 Mar 09
Gee I don't know what I would do . The RV sounds the best, as long as my husband was doing the driving, but then all my money would be going into the gas tank.
I wouldn't want an apartment because I would want something that's mine .
With an apartment , the landlord can always jack up the rent or turn down the heat , and make all the rules . Maybe a trailer , in a trailer park wouldn't be bad . I'd rather just do what I've done and take the little bit of money I had
and by a little house on the beach in Mexico . It's been a good choice for me !
@sandymay48 (2030)
• Canada
27 Mar 09
As long as you had your health, that would be great fun..when it snowed here in canada..I could just travel south to florida...lol
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California sounds very nice in my old age though.
My motor home on the beach ruining the view for others
@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
27 Mar 09
I have lived in apartments my whole life and it is no picnic, hate it. The landlords have total control and there is nothing you can do about it. The RV sounds nice, get away to different places. I have never lived in a mobile home/mobile home park, how is it living there?
@sandymay48 (2030)
• Canada
27 Mar 09
I have never lived in a mobile home park either. There are several near where I live and only one that I have heard anything good about. It is geared to an older crowd and is very strict with rules about what type of home and age and so on can go in it.
The others seem to have a lot of trouble in them.
Apts arent that great even when you are older if you dont live on the first floor. What if theres a fire and the elevators are out. You would have to walk down all the stairs.
I guess I would take the motorhome first as long as I was able, and then it would be a suitable mobile home park
@sandymay48 (2030)
• Canada
27 Mar 09
Yes I think it would be fun too. And if I got tired of travelling, I could always park it in a campground or in my childrens driveways for a while...lol
