When You Retire.....

[mlctvt]

When we retire in about 10 years we'll sell out condo at Mount Snow and buy a house in tthe Mad River valley. This could change though, we fell in love with British Columbia on some summer trip a couple of years ago. A place at Revelstoke would suffice

 

[Terry]

Old homes is where it's at. See, Terry knows whats up. I may not have insulation, but I have 4 posts and 3 beams in every room, each one twice as heavy as the single main beam in a modern house.

I also have post and beam construction. Exposed beams in the downstairs, wide pine floors, 9 over 6 wavy glass windows, ctr chimney cape with a Glendale wood cook stove in the kitchen.

 

[poconovfr]

When I retire in 12 yeaars,I'll move south where it rarely goes below freezing and I'll be able to tearass on my sports bike year round.SLC is way to accesssable by air and they are above tree line and it snows buthole deep to a giraff.See ya' then.

 

[hardline]

ws talking about this on the drive home yesterday. most likely will be somewhere between burlington and stowe but if i mary someone swiss i would concider one of the valleys there.

 

[severine]

MRV. Preferably before retirement.

 

[wa-loaf]

I want to get a job with these guys (http://www.rmi.org/) and move to Aspen. Then no need to move once I retire.

 

[Marc]

I also have post and beam construction. Exposed beams in the downstairs, wide pine floors, 9 over 6 wavy glass windows, ctr chimney cape with a Glendale wood cook stove in the kitchen.

Very nice... I'd like to take down some of the crumbling horsehair plaster (one thing I don't like in old homes) and expose some of the chesnut beams. Wish I had some original windows... most were replaced in the 20's... very poor windows.

I'm going to replace them with some new units, but the will all have 12 over 12 grilles like the originals were.

Had a Household Honest wood cookstove, but I had to dismantle it because the firebox was burned through.

I have some sloped floors though. And a root cellar. And a cheese room...

 

[noski]

When we retire in about 10 years we'll sell out condo at Mount Snow and buy a house in tthe Mad River valley. This could change though, we fell in love with British Columbia on some summer trip a couple of years ago. A place at Revelstoke would suffice

Timing is about right- maybe we could do a house swap- if you had a home in NC area that would be nice.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

we talk about it often...we'd like to do ski patrol/ambasadors at an area in VT...we're hitting as many as we can now to see where we'd like to be..so VT in the winter and Cape Cod summers....

 

[billski]

And a cheese room...

say what? :blink:

 

[hrstrat57]

ME, probably around Brunswick area.....

What was once only a year or so away though is looking like 5-10 yr away now:angry:

 

[mikes334]

That sucks. My parent ended up having to go back and join the work force as well.

 

[Geoff]

you might dig the Portsmouth area of NH.....60 minutes to Boston, within 3.5 to all of New England's best except Jay. Even Sundown is only about 3.5 I think

You can make Jay in 3 1/2 from Portsmouth.

 

[St. Bear]

I've got a solid 40 years to figure it out, but I'll most likely stay in New England. (Even though I'm not there now, I say stay because I plan on moving back in 5-10 years.) All my family is in NH and northern MA, so that's the most likely landing place, but ME is becoming more and more attractive, not only for retirement but for my next move as well.

 

[deadheadskier]

You can make Jay in 3 1/2 from Portsmouth.

you are right

I assumed it was closer to 4 when I was new to the area.

And earlier, you suggested Portsmouth area as being a very expensive place to retire. Why do you feel that way? Property taxes? Everything else is quite cheap.

 

[dmc]

I'd like to retire rich, live in NYC and have enough to take trips to wherever I feel like riding...

 

[St. Bear]

you are right

I assumed it was closer to 4 when I was new to the area.

And earlier, you suggested Portsmouth area as being a very expensive place to retire. Why do you feel that way? Property taxes? Everything else is quite cheap.

Most of the seacoast (Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter, Hampton) has a reputation of being pricey.

 

[deadheadskier]

I'm not sure where people get the impression that Dover is expensive.

 

[Geoff]

And earlier, you suggested Portsmouth area as being a very expensive place to retire. Why do you feel that way? Property taxes? Everything else is quite cheap.

Real estate prices are really high. You tie up all your capital in housing that you could start spending down if you lived elsewhere. Because housing costs are so high, the property taxes are also quite large... not so much because of a high tax rate.... The tax rate in Portsmouth isn't all that high. About 1.7% of assessed value.

The cost of any kind of labor-oriented service is also quite high in Portsmouth. Trade people look at the zip code and double their prices. As you age, you have to pay people to do things for you that you can no longer handle doing yourself.

At the point where you can't drive, the lack of public transportation also pushes you to using taxis. From personal experience, they get about $10.00 per mile in Portsmouth. I couldn't believe it.

 

[deadheadskier]

Real estate prices are really high. You tie up all your capital in housing that you could start spending down if you lived elsewhere. Because housing costs are so high, the property taxes are also quite large... not so much because of a high tax rate.... The tax rate in Portsmouth isn't all that high. About 1.7% of assessed value.

The cost of any kind of labor-oriented service is also quite high in Portsmouth. Trade people look at the zip code and double their prices. As you age, you have to pay people to do things for you that you can no longer handle doing yourself.

At the point where you can't drive, the lack of public transportation also pushes you to using taxis. From personal experience, they get about $10.00 per mile in Portsmouth. I couldn't believe it.

Fair enough. My suggestion for this area was based upon a Root's expressed desire to live near metropolitan area. The cost of living around here is FAR cheaper than any suburb of Boston I'd consider living in.