When/If you retire....................

[CrookedArrow]

I keep viewing all these cool threads on members buying property and having a "get away" etc. Been keeping up with a few in the DIY section. I am getting closer to 50, but realistically I can't retire anytime soon.

I would love to have a bit of acreage somewhere in the Hill country. Fishing and hunting would be pretty close to Heaven, for me anyway. I really hate the realization I will have to stay where I am at, Midland/Odessa

I have thought about "what if" etc as in selling our house, uprooting and finding a place. Anyhow, any plans for you to move and enjoy the outdoors or better yet just where you want to be.

[Buckshot-73]

My dream is to have a cabin in the mountains of CO.

[alwaysinshorts]

The problem is our society has become so dependent on money that it makes it very difficult to enjoy some of the things that others have.

I am like you, I've frequently caught myself thinking the same thing. Fortunately I am on my first lease and plan on starting my own DIY thread about a shipping container that I am going to be converting.

I would love a true place of my own, but I don't want to drive hours upon hours to get to the place.

[Smithwr]

I want to move to the coast retired or not. Stepson will graduate about the time babyboy is starting school so the timeframe is good. Maybe I can find work in a refinery. Seems like bay fishing anytime I please would be great. It's a slow build but Im working the wife into agreeing.

[Jmh05]

I plan on working until I drop dead in my clinic just like my uncles dad did. I'm not a retirement type, but I will work on having that special place as soon as I get my debt under control.

[Speedgoat]

I am looking for 30 acres right now. We are going to build a house.

[switchback]

Been having that dream for a very long time. Hoping if nothing else that if we buy another house in town somewhere that I can buy a piece of land for hunting then maybe move there when I retire

[buckmastertexas]

I think locating just North of Jasper , Texas would be awesome. Lakes Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn, Angelina and Sabine National Forest. I guess I will have to work real hard to get there. But in the meantime, I get there most weekends.

[Uncle Saggy]

I'm 50, and the wife and I have recently decided to work on a 2 year plan to sell everything and find a small place on 5 or 10 acres. We have 80 acres in the Arkansas mountains (a place that most would like to retire on), but wanting to go somewhere hotter and less humid......

If it all works out my resignation letter to corporate will be the highlight of my career

[Wudstix]

Retirement eligible in 9 days, but have to get a daughter through college, so...... I would have to have a cabin in MT/CO and a beach house in Mazatlan for momma.

[41Chevy]

Did it last year. Selling the house this summer and going full time RVing.

[Beleg]

We dreamed of retiring to the country but decided it's better to be close to the grand kids. Priorities change sometimes. We sold out in Dallas and moved to Round Rock and we are now 5 minutes from our grand kids and see them almost every day. They won't be little forever and they grow up so fast. I'm not retired yet and was able to get a transfer to Austin for work. I hope to retire in a couple of years. There's no place we'd rather be.

[Atfulldraw]

We work weekends, and holidays, and some crazy long hours (I'm up working now), but are debt free.

Moved out of the city (Dallas) four years ago, sold the house and left the craziness behind. Basically lived in the RV on the road for a few years, and started buying land with the money we saved.

Building two houses this year, lots of sweat equity and paying for them as we go ... one in the hill country and one in Colorado.

At 44, the heat is starting to get to me. The plan is to spend the good months in Texas and the hot months in Colorado.

Applied for Colorado elk and mule deer tags tonight

[Pedernal]

We work weekends, and holidays, and some crazy long hours (I'm up working now), but are debt free.

Moved out of the city (Dallas) four years ago, sold the house and left the craziness behind. Basically lived in the RV on the road for a few years, and started buying land with the money we saved.

Building two houses this year, lots of sweat equity and paying for them as we go ... one in the hill country and one in Colorado.

At 44, the heat is starting to get to me. The plan is to spend the good months in Texas and the hot months in Colorado.

Applied for Colorado elk and mule deer tags tonight

Sounds like you have gone the way I want to go. At 44 myself and have about the same type of desire to have a place for summer in the mountains, either Arizona/colorado/Montana and one to reside(winter)in Texas.

I currently own a rental property and a residential place. Plan is to to buy one of the retirement places soon. Rental property will be sold when the market is right and hopefully go to fund one of the retirement places. Like the idea of 5 to 10 acers with a couple of cabins and or RV hook ups that I can rent out while I am not up in the mountains. As for Texas, I would love a place in the hill country close to 40 acres with a small barn/apartment type place. I am hoping if I keep the dwellings small but comfortable I might even be able to buy a lot near or on the Texas coast with an RV hoop up for some of the salt water fishing I would like to do once I retire.

God willing, I plan to retire somewhere between 50 to 55. Love my job but really tired of all the nonsense working for Uncle Sam.

[glen]

trying to talk the wife into selling everything in 5 years and moving to Andros Bahamas. She does not want to move that far away from the kids so I will probably just buy an acre or two on the Texas Coast and build a house with a dry dock. I just have to be able to fish everyday and would sacrifice the duck hunting if I could fish the Bahamas. I have looked at real estate there 3 times now and it is affordable.