Depressed snowbird housing market - Yuma
Well, my in laws just sold their snowbird home in Yuma at a major loss, lots of properties for sale there, it's definitely a buyers market. My in laws hated to sell but at the ages of 83 & 79 with one...
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bstark wrote:
Take heart gitane59; if there is one thing I can assure you of; the pendulum will swing. You will however, find a way to realize your dream plan regardless if it doesn't.
Full retirement brings with it a completely different perspective of assigning priorities.
The old guard leaving are in reality making room for the newbies in a facsimile of the age old cycle of life.
Whatever your choice of retirement lifestyle, the single greatest imperative is to fill every moment of free time with what you want to do. Should the wheels fall off, you then have fewer regrets of the "if I'd only done that".....kind.
Best wishes to you both.
Excellent post. We started snowbirding at 41 years old and just working summers. We are fortunate to have jobs that facilitate that. The dollar was 62 cents when we started. We just found a way and lived frugally. For health reasons we avoid restaurants other than maybe every couple months. We have friends that spend easily a Thousand a month on restaurants. It can really bite into a budget but then again their budget is bigger than ours so why not. We seem to make it on about 3500 per month including wintering down south in the US or Mexico as well as a European trip every second year for three or 4 weeks. Good planning and sometimes a little luck go a long way.
Enjoy life guys. I hope all your dreams come true. We are in our early fifties now and there is still so much to see and do.
