Ho Hum… or Retirement Outlier, How Does Your Retirement Compare
Category: Retirement Planning
March 7, 2023 — It is the rare person who strikes out on the unbeaten path, and that includes their route to retirement. Usually we prefer to follow a track made by someone else, learning from their experience and thereby avoiding unexpected mistakes and mishaps. It is helpful to know what others are thinking and doing, though. That is where the 30+ retirement surveys conducted since 2012 by Topretirements can help. Here you can see where you agree, and differ with the retirement plans of thousands of other folks in a similar situation.
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Comments on "Ho Hum… or Retirement Outlier, How Does Your Retirement Compare"
RichPB says:
I was surprised a how many were selling their pre-retirement homes. We didn't sell the house we had built with the plan to retire in it -- at least not at first. Built in 1992, retired in 2003 and stayed there because we loved it and because we couldn't find and acceptable home to replace it. Then last October the place suddenly popped up -- a townhouse of 2000 sq ft with everything on the main first floor except two extra bedrooms and a bath in Fearrington Village, not far from where we originally built. It was actually a bit traumatic to buy, move, fix both places up a bit and go through the selling, but now we hope we're in the last stages hoping to close this month on our former home.
So now we actually have moved in retirement. It's been really good so far and we're quite happy with the decision (though still recovering from all the tumult). Lots of change for us and our dogs, but a house made for us in our 40's just wasn't ideal in our 70's.