Trying To Decide Where To Re-Locate

[Quiganomics]

Look great! I love quiet. More now that we live in mtns. No traffic, no racket.

Nice chunk of land there.

Thanks. Only have an acre or so cleared, got about 5 more acres of dense forest behind us as well. Have someone coming out Friday to give an estimate to run a forestry mulcher through and get us some more access to the rest of it

 

[Fueling Around]

I've been mortgage free since age 51 in MN.
Not rent free as we now have our Florida apartment but not interested in owning anything at this time.

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The living room is now half-way suited for living, as seen below.
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Nice digs and better than I expected, honestly.

What is that cutout in the living room ceiling?

 

[Quiganomics]

I've been mortgage free since age 51 in MN.
Not rent free as we now have our Florida apartment but not interested in owning anything at this time.

Nice digs and better than I expected, honestly.

What is that cutout in the living room ceiling?

Tray ceiling.

 

[ifitsdeadsmokeit]

Being mortgage free is a great thing. I accomplished that at 50, but then went and bought a vacation home which turned into everyday home and spent the $ from the sale of other paid off house on whole home remodeling/rebuilding/addition and adding a 4 bay garage/shop/outbuilding/man cave. Will be mortgage free again in two and a half years. Hoping to fully retire in five years but go part time in three. Just started trying to figure out how to keep my payments to uncle sam below the cutoffs for ss taxing and IRMAA surcharges. Not having much luck, but I guess that is a good problem to have. It is hard to just pack up and move your entire family and life and start over. I have done it three times now and dont regret any of them. You have a beautiful place, enjoy the solitude.

 

[sandyut]

Thanks. Only have an acre or so cleared, got about 5 more acres of dense forest behind us as well. Have someone coming out Friday to give an estimate to run a forestry mulcher through and get us some more access to the rest of it

I would love 5 acres! we only have just shy of one.

 

[GatorAGR]

It's hot and humid, but I can say my back has felt much better after being here.

Totally agree with you on this. I feel so much better in the heat. Sure, I'd love to have San Diego weather everyday (but not live in SD), but that's not realistic so I'll take heat over months of cold any day. Moved full time from IN to our lake house in East TN this month. Loving it so far.

 

[Quiganomics]

First REAL meal in the new place. Previous owner left a Pit Boss on the deck, had to see if it worked.

It did.

 

[Fueling Around]

Tray ceiling.

That was my first thought, but in the photo, it appeared to be open to the upper chord of the trusses

 

[forktender]

I am one of them but as of yet not acted on it....lol

Same here, kinda waiting on our next election, if it goes the way it typically has it's time to get serious about our move.

 

[forktender]

Congrats!

We did the this as well. It is freeing and life changing. Not easy to pull off either. Well done!!! Enjoy the freedom and never go back.

We did it in California, which is really saying something.
It took us 35 yrs of living like peasants, but we did it by the age of 60 plus or minus a few yrs. Now we make more money retired than we ever did working, thanks to a few lucky breaks. Now it's time to travel and enjoy life before something happens to one of us God forbidding!!!


I truly enjoyed following this thread, it made me smile knowing that people can still decide their own fate in this great Country.

God bless, and enjoy discovering the in's and out's of your new homestead.

 

[forktender]

Settling in...

View from the porch. It's quiet and peaceful, nothing but the hum of nature.
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Load of slag to re-cap the driveway.
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Now for some target practice with my youngest, form needs some work yet. "You'll put an eye out, kid!"
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Just a girl and her fire. (Had a bunch of boxes from the move that needed to disappear)
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And the morning coffee....it just hits different here.
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Have you checked to see if your daughter is cross eye'd dominant?
The way she is sighting down the barrel, tells me she may in fact be.
Just something to check out for you, from someone that has help'd many cross eye's dominant shooters in the past. If she is a simple smear of chapstick or a stick on dot on her shooting glasses over the dominant eye help most C.E.D. shooters tremendously.

Have fun exploring your new area.
Dan.