Mountains or beach person?

SquinkY5786

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Which are you? The retirement thread got me thinking. I enjoy both really. But which would be best to live. I would love getting up everyday and tossing on flip flops, tank top, and shorts for sure. But the coasts are so crowded and sometimes I don’t like people.
 
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Which are you? The retirement thread got me thinking. I enjoy both really. But which would be best to live. I would love getting up everyday and tossing on flip flops, tank top, and shorts for sure. But the coasts are so crowded and sometimes I don’t like people.
If it's best to live, probably the beach for me. If it's to visit, definitely the mountains. I find the beach boring AF, although it's cool about once every 3 years.
 
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BvillePoker

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Beach. Hands down no competition. My wife and I go to Gulf Shores at least once a year and are planning on retiring there.
 

AC2017

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As I get older, I prefer the beach.

Arthritis and aching joints at 53 sucks. Warm climate makes it much better.
 

Rulz

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Mountains.

Better views of the land scape, I love cold temps, wildlife...and I could live in the mountains and be happy .

Beach...it's fun to play in sand and water for a while, then I have to get away from it.
 

The Duke

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My opinion on this one flips all the time. Love both, for different reasons.
 

SquinkY5786

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My opinion on this one flips all the time. Love both, for different reasons.
This is how I am. If my kids leave after college I am probably moving.. and I go back and forth. Mountains are beautiful. More remote. But also love the weather near beaches. Honestly would love Hawaii idea but would hate the cost of flying to see kids. Also worried I may get island fever
 
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Pancreek1

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What I am going to do from 2023 forward:

August 16 to December 31: Stillwater
January 2 to April 30: Beach (most likely 30A close to or in Rosemary Beach)
May 1 to August 15: Mountains (most likely ToHELLuride)
 

JohnVoight

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Mountains. Luckily, Seattle has both although "beach" might be a little bit of a stretch for the majority of the Puget Sound. There are some cool spots though with views you probably wouldn't get anywhere else in the world.

 

1981grad

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When I retired I moved to the mountains of Utah. We have such a dry climate and with the intensity of the sun. You can wear shorts with temps in the 30's.
 
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Ostatedchi

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Neither actually. Not a beach person at all. I like the northern Denver front range area. But that's not really the mountains.

I could retire at Angle Fire maybe.

Give me something in the middle.
 

EvilPOKES

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Mountain, or at least near a forest of some kind. Love the weather, would love to start hiking. I'd be happy with either.
 
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Rulz

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Wyoming. Montana. Utah. I would love to have some land up there, especially Wyoming. The biggest spread I could get, farthest away from people, with a house in the middle of it all near a lake or large pond. And a Sherman tank, just so I could, ya know...restore it, yeah, that's it.

I have kind of a "mini" version of that here, but would love to have a mountain view, or even a house up high with a view.

Not that there's much "mountain view" on it that I can see, but there's a ranch for sale right now in Montana...45,000 acres. And for only $21,000,000...it could be mine..You can see it easily by going on Trulia or Zillow or just typing in "land for sale in Montana" and then filtering for the largest plot of land. That's over 70 square miles of land. It's got a house built using the "concept" I have thought of since college. Built as a "cross" or plus sign, so 4 separate sections with a common room in the middle. At least it appears that way. I'm into people having their space, I like knowing friends and family can come to my house and go somewhere and fart and not have to worry about Dutch ovening everyone easily. And I don't like toilets close to doors or just off of a main room. Toilets should be against the outside wall. That way, if you have the squirts or a sonorous air plug, you can relieve yourself in peace and not have to think of Uncle Fred snickering at your ring tone.

Seriously, I think of stupid **** like that lol.


I wish it would f*%#ing snow in Verdigris.
 

JonnyVito

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Mountain, or at least near a forest of some kind. Love the weather, would love to start hiking. I'd be happy with either.
Yea I would prefer to live in the deep woods of Maine on a lake. I just love the smell of the woods.
 

1981grad

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Mountain, or at least near a forest of some kind. Love the weather, would love to start hiking. I'd be happy with either.
I retired a year ago August and moved to Utah. One of the main reasons was to hike. I have hiked over a hundred trails so far as I hike 3 days a week. I mountain or road bike 3 days and take one day off.
 

EvilPOKES

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There is a likelihood we could end up in Idaho (Moscow). So, I could at least start the hiking sometime soon :) .oh, and effort Portland .we would not fit in that snowflake cesspool.
 

nathajw

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The beach is cool with the lady friends for relaxing I guess but with kids....nah. I get bored to tears at the beach and my boys don't want to sit on their asses and get sun laying out either. Sand castles, flying kites, and staring at the water....oh boy!! Plus, they can only watch their old man crush so many 12 packs and fall asleep so many times....And the sand EVERYWHERE...pass.

In the mountains we hike, fish, ATVs, camp, hit each other with sticks. Options are endless.
 
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EvilPOKES

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Instead of a beach (as in ocean) how about a lake? How about Lugano, Switzerland? Personally, my end-all-be-all place might be there or Aosta, Italy.