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The rules have changed. You are in control!
In retirement, nothing forces you to live anywhere you don’t want to be. If you stay where you were, then either you like where your live or you are just too lazy to do something about it. Until retirement there was always an excuse. You had to be close to your job. You wanted to live where there were good schools. The odds are good that your decision about where to live had very little to do with your passions or pleasures. It was a pragmatic decision which tried to optimize the priorities in your life. Usually job and family trump passion so now that your family is grown and you are retired from you job, you are living someplace you don’t actually like or doesn’t fit the life you want in retirement. Where you are living may be keeping you from living the retired life you want and deserve. How does your two-story, suburban house relate to your passion to comb the beaches for driftwood and paint watercolor sketches? How does a small town lifestyle relate to your passion to be part of an intense urban area with lots of street life and cultural events? Don’t be tied to the past. Have you just accepted that where you are is where you were meant to be or do you ask yourself how it happened that you seem trapped in an irrelevant lifestyle? Stop and ask yourself if your present life is where you want to be? [continue reading…]
The 50’s marked a big evolution in pickup trucks. Take the Chevy trucks as an example. The 1950 pickup was utilitarian with its two piece windsheild and drab colors. In the early 50’s you didn’t drive a pickup truck as a fashion statement. You had it because you hauled things. It was unlikely for a pickup truck to be the family vehicle. First a pickup with standard transmission (floor shift) would only hold two people. Second, in the 50’s, before government safety and emissions regulatiions, people could afford to have two vehicles. Styling was basic, maybe even ugly, but looking back after 60 years it looks honest and sturdy. On our farm, growing up in the 50’s we had a 1950 Chevy truck. 
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