That’s you. I’m 61, have no children, work for myself, and there is no fucking way I’m going to spend any of my remaining years living in a steam bath or unable to surf and otherwise enjoy the great outdoors. I’m done making sacrifices.
I was thinking the same. Not enough to have one on staff, but it might be enough to hire a charter service every week or three.
That place on Kodiak: there is certainly an airfield nearby, in addition to the ferry… but in bad weather, neither is a good option.
Oh, man - I know you’re not a republican, so you should have your funnybone serviced! That was so funny I’m going to use it at the pub this week. Repeatedly. Until everyone breaks down and smiles.
Red county, don’cha know…
Dan
Groooooannnnnnn. How did I miss this one before???
The beauty of a pun is in the OY!!! of the beholder, indeed.
I truly don’t understand why anyone wants to live in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year. Beautiful winters, I cannot deny, but summers are ungodly humid, I’m not going out in that. Then you have to worry about hurricanes, and as the climate changes, epic floods.
My SIL and her wife are having a baby they conceived via IVF and I can’t imagine a worse place in the US to be gay and pregnant. (Well I could, probably, but it would be another southern state.) My SIL is a firefighter, I think she said she’s stuck there until she’s 100% vested, so maybe they come home eventually. But seriously, I would be incredibly stressed living in that state, especially if I were on the governor’s hit list. I don’t even want to travel there.
Florida has a LOT of retirees who are “snowbirds”. They come south in the autumn, and head back up in the spring. Best of both worlds, climate-wise.
We so soooooo many vehicles with Quebec (and occasionally Ontario) license plates as we drove north along I-95 every time we visited.
The parents basically never went outdoors from March to November, except to an air-conditioned car (well, until the last year or two, FIL would go to the pool several days a week). We got to swim in the ocean in April, on several visits (not something you’d do closer to where we live).
But you only have to live within a reasonable commute. You can get a house with a yard within an hour of Manhattan - and actually , a 90 minute commute is probably reasonable for a job in Manhattan.
As for my answer, I would live anywhere in the US for $6 million a year . Even for $1 million a year. For $500K, there are places I wouldn’t live. Texas is number 1 on that list and Florida is a close second.
As one would expect from any thread that deals with idealized financial choices.
It’s all about the upsells. You have to buy the line-cutting wristband and all sorts of extras to enjoy it as it was (or might have been) back in the day.
Maybe compared to New Mexico it’s humid. I’ve never noticed the humidity. There is early morning fog, of course. And the worst of that is far better than either Louisiana or the East Coast. We were thinking of moving back to our nice little town in NJ, and visited for a week. After dealing with the humidity, we said no thanks.
Easy for you to say. You own a mansion and a yacht.
Some of us feel that passing on several million dollars is a greater sacrifice than living in Mississippi would be.
I like living in New York and I have a comfortable amount of money. But the lifestyle I would live in Mississippi with six million dollars a year would be better than the lifestyle I have now.
That’s understandable if what makes you happy doesn’t require certain natural elements that can’t be bought. Despite my tagline, I’m not rich but I do have enough money to live the life I want where I want. Having 50 times the income won’t make me happier.
I feel similarly. A lot of the things I want out of life, I already have. Financially, I gripe and worry, but by any objective measure, we’re fine. I love my job both for the nature of the work and the incredible perks, like being home to get my son off the bus at 4pm and play with him until dinner time. We’re starting to build up a community with my husband’s cousins and their kids. I have friends I care about. My son is in a good school system for his needs.
I don’t really want to move.
All the OP is asking (if I understand correctly) is that you spend one year in a bad place in America for $6 million and then you can go back to wherever you are right now.
I keep reading all these comments/posts about “I’m already comfortable where I am right now in (New York, Michigan, whatever.)” Sure, but if you spent a year in the armpit of America and came back $4 million richer (after taxes) wouldn’t that make you even better yet in your comfortable place? It might even make you enjoy New York or Michigan or San Francisco even more.
For me it’s about the years, not the bucks. I can’t put a price on a year of my life, especially as the remaining ones become fewer and fewer. Unless $4 million can buy me an additional year of life in my current health and vitality, I’ll pass.
Having 50 times the income will enable me to retire early. Being retired versus having to work another 20 years would make me happier.
Some people like their jobs.
I understand your reasoning, but I’ve had some terrible years in my life. You can’t put them behind you as easily as you might think.
I also do not feel medically safe, as a woman, in any state that has banned abortion. For any kind of healthcare, at any time. If my state were to ban abortion, I would probably move. Fortunately, my state enshrined reproductive health care in the constitution.
Which is how I voted.
One of my family members was wrongfully convicted of a crime and spent 17 years in state prison before being completely exonerated. He received a little over $4M in compensation after he was exonerated. That works out to be roughly comparable to having saved $236K a year for 17 years.
He is now doing fine and has managed his money wisely enough to have two homes in NC and a condo in Hawaii. He does not have to work, though he does work a bit, and he is able to travel extensively.
Overall, it was not a fair trade. The situation is not really comparable to simply having to move somewhere that is unpleasant to you, but the overall idea of being “someplace you don’t want to be long enough to make enough money to retire and relocate” is, I think, a bit similar. His life sucked for 17 years and then got magnitudes better.