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My dad bought a cabin in the mountains [he retired once and hasn't stopped working since....actually got another job]. Most of the family spends Christmas or a hot summer day at his cabin because it's less than 30 miles to drive to.
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I retired and moved to Kotzebue. Does that count?
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Many are surprised to learn that Oklahoma has more freshwater shoreline than any other state (except Minnesota.) I would think Alaska would be a contender there, too.
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I built a lake home, and now I'm building the lake. I don't think I will ever really retire though.
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I have a neighbor in Texas that did the same and his lake is near bone dry since he built a couple of years ago. I hope you do not suffer the same and wish you rain.
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I have a neighbor in Texas that did the same and his lake is near bone dry since he built a couple of years ago. I hope you do not suffer the same and wish you rain. I don't need no stinking rain!
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My dad retired at 62 and sold his house in the city and moved to the lake. Lived there for 18 years until his health gave out. I didn't think I would want to follow in his footsteps, but I am thinking about doing it. Anyone have any advice, good or bad? Lots of factors you'll wanna consider. But I've had a few friends do just that and immediately regretted it. 1) Too many bugs 2) Taxes jump through the roof 3) Never-ending sounds of chain saws But - each to his own.. Some love it - others do not.. As for me personally - not a chance in hades..
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Put together a modular house on Lake Gaston about 30 years ago. I live just outside of DC in Northern Virginia & Lake Gaston is on the Virginia-North Carolina border. My family including two daughters spent many weekends there skiing, tubing, fishing, swimming, & riding jet skis. Adult daughters still visit & grandson loves it there. Would like to move there & sell DC area house, but can't do so at the present. There is also good deer & some black bear hunting nearby. Love to sit on the large screened front porch & sip a Wild Turkey or bloody mary. If you can afford it definitely move to a lake. There are always homes for sale sometimes at good prices due to the economy. Family's split up & some times have to sell rapidly due to settlements.
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My dad retired at 62 and sold his house in the city and moved to the lake. Lived there for 18 years until his health gave out. I didn't think I would want to follow in his footsteps, but I am thinking about doing it. Anyone have any advice, good or bad? I am not retired, but have this: My advice has more to do with the health side of things: If you have health issues, make sure that there are facilities around that can deal with anything that comes up, or be prepared (and willing) to drive a long ways for your health care. Unfortunately, the quality and level of care in the US (heck, probably everywhere on earth) is VERY geographical.
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So long as I don't have neighbors I can live most anywhere.
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My sister and her husband once built a lake house. Houses were packed tight all around the shore.
Weekends, it was a freaking zoo all across the surface of the lake.
They don't talk about lake houses anymore. Kind of a sore subject.
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. . .If you can afford it definitely move to a lake. There are always homes for sale sometimes at good prices due to the economy. Family's split up & some times have to sell rapidly due to settlements. Hadn't thought of this angle. I guess one just needs to be ready to pull the trigger and keep your feelers out with a few agents to let you know when one of these "motivated seller" deals is on the way. Good advice. Thanks.
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Lived on a local lake the first year we were married. Family has had a lake house there going on 40 years. My father and his ummm wife live in it now. Nobody bothers them for some reason. I had a waterfront lot on this lake and thought that we would have a home there some day, then more land around my current residence became available. That was the end of that lot.
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Many are surprised to learn that Oklahoma has more freshwater shoreline than any other state (except Minnesota.) I really doubt Oklahoma has more fresh water shoreline than Alaska.
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I'm retired and living in the same house we bought 29 years ago. I can see the Great Salt Lake from here - does that count?
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Many are surprised to learn that Oklahoma has more freshwater shoreline than any other state (except Minnesota.) I really doubt Oklahoma has more fresh water shoreline than Alaska. Maybe they're counting cattle tanks. The whole norther border of New York is freshwater shoreline, lakes Erie and Ontario and the St. Lawrence river, then you've got Lake Champlain along the eastern border with Vermont, the Hudson river running most of the rest of the way from there to N(f'in)YC. The rest of the state is full of lakes and rivers. I lived with my 2nd ex-wife for 25 years on the shore of the St. Lawrence and there's a lot to be said about just walking down to the boat house, dropping the boat in, and going duck hunting or fishing. Current wife and I bought a place on the river before we got married, fixed it up into our dream home, then this summer moved down here, a couple miles from Lake Ontario (great job for her.) We are still keeping the river home unless the financial strain gets to be too much. I have been promised that if we do sell the river home we're getting a 26' Grady White all outfitted for trout and salmon down here.
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My older sister has, and it's very quiet and secluded, especially for Penn. Maybe a section in size with a dozen cabins around in the forest and no additional development allowed. Great place to float a canoe and do bass, crappie, and sunfish on a fly. Unknowingly missed an opportunity for a $15,000 lot where a cabin had burned some years back. Deer, beaver, osprey, black bear, waterfowl, gray squirrels, etc. Color me envious.
At a destination resort with hundreds of holiday boaters and such, not much interest.
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Many are surprised to learn that Oklahoma has more freshwater shoreline than any other state (except Minnesota.) I really doubt Oklahoma has more fresh water shoreline than Alaska. Maybe they're counting cattle tanks. The whole norther border of New York is freshwater shoreline, lakes Erie and Ontario and the St. Lawrence river, then you've got Lake Champlain along the eastern border with Vermont, the Hudson river running most of the rest of the way from there to N(f'in)YC. The rest of the state is full of lakes and rivers. I lived with my 2nd ex-wife for 25 years on the shore of the St. Lawrence and there's a lot to be said about just walking down to the boat house, dropping the boat in, and going duck hunting or fishing. Current wife and I bought a place on the river before we got married, fixed it up into our dream home, then this summer moved down here, a couple miles from Lake Ontario (great job for her.) We are still keeping the river home unless the financial strain gets to be too much. I have been promised that if we do sell the river home we're getting a 26' Grady White all outfitted for trout and salmon down here. OK Water Facts
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