I was watching Avengers Endgame and it seems that Thanos, the bad guy, has “retired” from being supreme leader of the universe to where now he is living all alone in a tiny cabin where he tends his garden.
Also Tony Stark (Ironman) now lives with his family in a semi-primitive house by a quiet lake.
Is this the “norm”? Does everyone want to retire to a quiet place somewhere? I read where some people retire to live in college towns or areas close to family.
It’s easy visual shorthand in a movie or television show for “this guy/gal is NOT in the game anymore.” Show a person at leisure at the beach, or in a resort town, or in a city, and it isn’t immediately obvious that they aren’t just not working this moment; i.e. weekend or vacation. Show a Type A personality living in boo-foo nowhere off the grid, and it’s much more apparent they aren’t working anymore period.
I think most people would love to have enough money on retirement where a little quiet cottage is an option but I certainly wouldn’t want to retire to one. In movies, though, it’s more symbolism of completely dropping out of the rat race.
The idea of living or even visiting a cabin or rural area sounds horrible to me. No way I’d retire there. A college town with decent public transit might be an option.
A lot of people think they want to retire to a cabin somewhere. I used to think that, and even went so far as to buy a piece of property in a small town in Alaska. A friend of mine bought property on Orcas Island in Washington. Neither of us followed through on it, and sold the properties.
It’s the pressure and stress of work, and the commute that makes you think that you’re going to want to live in the middle of nowhere. The reality is that it’s damned inconvenient to live remotely. After living in cities for most of my life, I’m pretty sure I’d get tired of not having the amenities they offer, or having to drive an hour or two just to see a doctor.
Nobody who reads that thread title is going to have the remotest expectation of finding a mild Endgame spoiler in the very first line of your post.
I have never seen any movie in this franchise or anything similar, but even I’m aware that there has been intense concern about spoilers for this movie. Really, how little unselfishness and consideration for others is required to just put “Endgame: mild spoilers” in the thread title. Or to avoid discussing Engame altogether, or to discuss in much more vague terms, since the specifics of who has retired to a cabin hardly seem critical to the point of your post.
Hoping for a cottage on the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear.
I started a thread awhile back to solicit opinions on my plan for post-retirement marital harmony by moving to a place that has a separate hut, like the one used by a former whaling captain in the Sherlock Holmes story (preferably without getting impaled by a harpoon).*
C’mon, this is a bit silly, where individual characters end up living after the ending of “Infinity War” isn’t a spoiler. Nobody is going into the movie having the experience ruined because I told them that Captain America starts the movie roaming the country as a motorcycle riding busker and had to be coaxed out of retirement for Endgame*. These are not things one needs to be unaware of to enjoy experiencing a movie for the first time.
Anyway, retiring to a cabin is a popular concept because the location itself embodies the idea of retirement. A simple place with few things to do, quiet, relaxing and serene.
The older I get, the more I want to retire someplace close to top notch restaurants and medical care. “8 miles to the nearest town” would be a nightmare.
I certainly don’t. It’s easier to tolerate today with Amazon and the internet. But I still like to have local amenities at hand that aren’t reproduce-able in the country, like a wide variety of restaurants. That said I don’t like the noise, concrete jungle views and the hectic nature of living downtown either.
Thus compromises like bedroom communities/suburbs/exurbs were born.
