Seems stupid and self induced pain when you can vote with your feet and get away.
If you have enough money, it’s a non issue. But why would you want to live in a house and deal with that crap every year?
I could live in a NY apartment. At least you’re not out there shoveling snow. Seems like a useless endeavor, like a rat spinning wheels every year — shoveling snow, sweeping leaves, cutting branches, clearing gutters and ditches, mowing acres of lawn, etc… If I have to do labor, I’d rather remodel condos and see income producing tangible results.[/quote]I agree with you to a point, FIH. I’m still considering South Lake Tahoe for a retirement locale. “Senior citizen” ski season passes and free buses to Heavenly 3-4 months per year appeal to me. For the most part, their winter is fairly mild and it is very beautiful up there and also very well-preserved (on the CA side).
It’s expensive and a hassle to drive all the way up there once or twice per season and stay in hotels or timeshares, not knowing what the actual ski conditions will be during your stay. Since their weather (and ski conditions) can be unpredictable from day to day and even hour to hour, I would just like to have a cheap season pass (purchased the prior summer) that I can use to ski for a couple/few hours at a time as time (and conditions) permit. I’d need to live there to do that as staying in lodging is cost-prohibitive.
In spite of having to shovel snow a few times per year, I feel living in a reasonably-priced resort town such as SLT would be the ideal life for me.
It’s also big enough to have its own hospital and for me to find a part-time gig if I should want/need one.
This wouldn’t work in the CO resort towns or even Mammoth Mtn as housing is too expensive for me in those locales and I would also likely be forced into a small condo and/or having to scare up paying roommates to survive. That isn’t my idea of a peaceful, economical retirement.
