This is my dream retirement scenario. Just stay at home for 9 months of the year and get an Airbnb wherever I feel like going for the “winter”. There’s no reason to get locked in to one place. Palm Springs, then Phoenix, then Florida, then South Carolina, maybe throw NYC in there (it’s not too bad in the winter there), maybe Nashville, maybe some Austin. The possibilities are endless now with Airbnb (or vrbo or whatever) and ridesharing services.
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This is my dream retirement scenario. Just stay at home for 9 months of the year and get an Airbnb wherever I feel like going for the “winter”. There’s no reason to get locked in to one place. Palm Springs, then Phoenix, then Florida, then South Carolina, maybe throw NYC in there (it’s not too bad in the winter there), maybe Nashville, maybe some Austin. The possibilities are endless now with Airbnb (or vrbo or whatever) and ridesharing services.
Most my family and friends in Colorado aren’t inviting others to move there lolCome out to Colorado if you like low humidity without the desert heat
100% this. We are 5-10 years from retirement and have been talking about what the next step will be. Rather than go through the cost/hassle of owning, we decided to try and do some long term rentals.
I'm moving to Arizona the day after I retire. Should be a nice week before I die...
This is the kind of attitude that will see you live to 100.
I think the primary reason a big shift is currently happening to the SE part of the country is two fold: weather and lower taxes.
I plan on being a snowbird, but I will always maintain a home in the midwest. Too hot in the summer for me to stay down there all year.
I plan on being a snowbird, but I will always maintain a home in the midwest. Too hot in the summer for me to stay down there all year.
Buddy of mine lived there till he moved to the beach. Some island on the Carolina border.
I might have said the same at 41. Things do change when you get to a certain point and your needs and wants are smaller and more bills have been paid off.
My idea of retirement is optimistic, but probably includes my wife no longer working and me working on my own terms on something I enjoy in my early to mid-60's. I've got about 10 years to get to that point.
Fascinating. I've felt that in recent years the majority of tornadoes (especially with high levels of devastation) reported on the news were in southern states. Any specific insight as to why the shift?
Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward
Tornado outbreaks are moving from Texas and Oklahoma toward Tennessee and Kentucky, where people may not be prepared
From the article:
Why is this shift happening now? Most often tornadoes are created by a supercell—a strong thunderstorm with a rotating updraft of air. Supercells tend to form when warm, humid, low-level air interacts with cool, dry, upper-level air, and climate change is generating warmer, moister air. Tornadoes also are more likely to develop when the local atmosphere is unstable, “and warming increases instability,” says Zuohao Cao, a tornado expert at Environment and Climate Change Canada, who co-led a recent study on storm touchdown locations. Climate change is warming the Gulf of Mexico as well, which can send generous amounts of water vapor into the southeastern U.S.
Research suggests that the so-called dry line is also shifting eastward. The imaginary line runs north from the U.S.-Mexico border up to Canada, dividing the wetter eastern U.S. from the drier western U.S. (To the east, thirsty crops such as corn predominate; to the west, drought-tolerant wheat prevails.) The line, which for centuries has fallen roughly along the 100th meridian, has moved east by about 140 miles since the late 1800s. The dry line “can be a boundary for convection—the rising of warm air and sinking of colder air that can fuel storms,” wrote Ernest Agee, professor emeritus of atmospheric science at Purdue University, in the Conversation in 2022.
20ish years ago when I spent good time in CO it was like EVERYONE was moving there and it's only accelerated.
I'm still a long way to retirement but I'd love to do the same. Even just a couple months in the winter and then go explore all over doing a month somewhere in the summer. Like you said, so easy to do cool rental properties now why not just rent a place and skip owning.
Air conditioning is one of the most important inventions of the 20th century. Will get more important with climate change.Companies are shifting to find cheaper labor and a lower tax burden.
Also, the idea of better weather is relative. I always like this map of mean center of population over time. The population moves west with western expansion and migration in the 19th century, but begins to move south after the invention of modern AC by Willis Carrier (Carrier Corp. founded in 1915). I don't think the shift south happens without widespread adoption of air conditioners.
