Why Retire to Somewhere Quiet?
I get asked this alot. More specifically, why here? The location is only important to me. The idea of Retirement to my generation was always, a quieter life, putting your feet up, having time to do what you never had time for before. The location is simply somewhere where you can do all of the above.
On a personal note, after many years of stressful work, home and children juggling I really just looked for a little more of a selfish life.
Part of my ideal retirement involved ignoring all the bad news of what's going on in the world. And for the last six years it's worked, mostly. I found that if I simply did not read or listen to the news of what's happening in the UK or USA or EU.. life bimbled along nicely and I rarely felt stressed, anxious or worried about the future.
Of course occasionally momentous news events would make their way through and I would have to deal with things. Like the climate crises. That's depressing - but the one glimmer of hope is that now …
On a personal note, after many years of stressful work, home and children juggling I really just looked for a little more of a selfish life.
Part of my ideal retirement involved ignoring all the bad news of what's going on in the world. And for the last six years it's worked, mostly. I found that if I simply did not read or listen to the news of what's happening in the UK or USA or EU.. life bimbled along nicely and I rarely felt stressed, anxious or worried about the future.
Of course occasionally momentous news events would make their way through and I would have to deal with things. Like the climate crises. That's depressing - but the one glimmer of hope is that now …