Time to renew registration, $$$ ouch!
Just got the bill to renew the registration on my 06 F-150, $175 ouch! Seems high for a 7 year old truck but guess I just forgot the amount from last year. Got me to thinking, since most of the regi...
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PU Campin, I know what you mean. While living in San Diego (lived there 51 years), we bought a vacation home (condo), in Tucson back in 04 and after a full year of using it on a regular basis we knew we had found our long sought after retirement venue. Even with the triple digit summers we enjoy Tucson year round. We sold the condo and built our retirement home. By cashing out of our San Diego home we were able to pay cash for the new house and moved here in 2006. We figured out early that the key to retiring was not a lot of income but simply not much "outgo". Everything we own is paid for and we choose to live well albeit simply.
While we enjoyed San Diego the cost of living anywhere in southern California, especially San Diego, is ridiculous. As it is just a 6 hour drive and we still have lots of friends and relatives there we visit San Diego often. Gas is consistently 50 cents to a dollar a gallon more than Tucson. Utilities are about 40% higher across the board. Our property taxes are less than half of what you pay in San Diego. Last trip I went to the grocery store and found milk to be $4.50 a gallon and eggs were $3.69($1.88/$1.29 in Tucson). Fresh California fruits and vegetables are significantly cheaper here contrasted with San Diego.
If we won the lotto tomorrow we would never live in California again. The crumbling infrastructure supported, just barely, by its stumbling economy does not bode well for the Golden state. We do have to put up with Jan Brewer, John McCain and Jeff Flake but likely (hopefully), they are all on their last term. Every state has good and bad but for us, early 60's retired on a limited fixed income, Arizona is a pretty good fit, the camping is awesome in every direction and then there is New Mexico, Utah, Nevada etc.. The best part is whenever we get bored with Arizona we just hook up the TT and leave for a while. :C
While we enjoyed San Diego the cost of living anywhere in southern California, especially San Diego, is ridiculous. As it is just a 6 hour drive and we still have lots of friends and relatives there we visit San Diego often. Gas is consistently 50 cents to a dollar a gallon more than Tucson. Utilities are about 40% higher across the board. Our property taxes are less than half of what you pay in San Diego. Last trip I went to the grocery store and found milk to be $4.50 a gallon and eggs were $3.69($1.88/$1.29 in Tucson). Fresh California fruits and vegetables are significantly cheaper here contrasted with San Diego.
If we won the lotto tomorrow we would never live in California again. The crumbling infrastructure supported, just barely, by its stumbling economy does not bode well for the Golden state. We do have to put up with Jan Brewer, John McCain and Jeff Flake but likely (hopefully), they are all on their last term. Every state has good and bad but for us, early 60's retired on a limited fixed income, Arizona is a pretty good fit, the camping is awesome in every direction and then there is New Mexico, Utah, Nevada etc.. The best part is whenever we get bored with Arizona we just hook up the TT and leave for a while. :C
