I might actually like a little job. We shouldn't need extra income, so I might even do volunteer work, but if lockdown taught me anything, it taught me that I need something to do and not something solitary either. As much as I like bikes, going for solo rides each day would end up boring me and I'd miss company too. I'd rather have a convertible and take the wife with me like I do now. I don't have any hobbies or such, although the occasional bit of fishing appeals.Yambo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:02 am I've had a little chuckle reading this thread. Some of you hate pensioners (the Toxic Elderly) so much that you give the impression that you're never going to be one and here you are telling us how toxic you intend to be!
However, this Toxic Elderly person hopes all your pension wishes come true. Just remember, when you do eventually retire, you might want a hobby or two to see you through the day (not too expensive ones though), or of course a little job stacking shelves in Tesco's.
I hate winter as it kinda shuts you indoors and I like outdoor living, hence why we'd always planned to be snowbirds. As much as I love summer and the heat, I also love spring and seeing the place wake up and the fauna come to life etc. So I think, like Mrs Weeksy, we'd miss the seasons, or part thereof lol.
I think the thing that would really stop us actually emigrating is Grandkids should we get them? Both the wife and I love kids and neither of us would want to be hundred of miles away and rarely seeing them. When i consider that, then owning a property abroad does appeal as we could flit back and forth and still be part of their lives.
To any of this we'll need our health and sadly the wife is starting to have a few issues and we both seem to have the onset, or rather onslaught , of arthritis, but that may drive us into the sunnier climes? All of the above is probably why I just think about things, rather than actually try to plan, iyswim? Man proposes, God disposes and all that...