No, at one point in my childhood I lived in a fucking house isolated in the country. It was the lowest circle of hell I ever experienced and I have lived in an active war zone. I’m strictly an urban animal who enjoys the convenience of the modern world.
Yep, a cabin in the middle of nowhere is where YOUNG people want to retire. When they cease being young, that’s no longer the case. You start looking at things like how convenient is shopping, what tax benefits do I get, how far are my grandchildren and how close is the nearest Trauma 1 hospital. A cabin in the woods is a lot of work and there’s a point where your body won’t do it anymore. Clearing brush and fixing fences is romantic for a 20 year old. For a 70 year old, it’s no longer fun.
I want a Cabana on the Isle of Lucy.
Well frankly Alaska and Washington state are way too cold (especially Alaska) that I wouldnt want to retire there and if I did I would snowbird.
Thats why here in Kansas City (well Overland park KS) they are building all these retirement communities and apartment complexes designed for seniors. They are close to hospitals, restaurants, and grandkids but in a safe maintenance free area.
Absolutely not. Cabins do nothing for me. Even in Minnesota where it seems everyone’s passion is to someday be able to afford a cabin ‘up north’ that they can go to every weekend during the summer. I’ve been invited to friends several times, I get bored quickly, and these days I take a pass.
It’s one of those things that if I suddenly inherited one I’d sell it tomorrow for 1/4 of it’s value just to be rid of it.l
We can be neighbors.
I’ve been traveling a lot the last few weeks, but am taking Thursday off to see it with my son. In the meantime, I’ve been avoiding any thread that looks like a movie thread, and Twitter entirely.
Ass.
It’s less of a problem for someone like Tony Stark who can afford to have amenities quickly flown in, or himself quickly flown to amenities, if the need or impulse strikes. Also, he has enough high-tech equipment at home to engage in advanced engineering design just as readily as he could in the city.
I zealously agree with ZPG! I’m used to virtually all the modern conveniences and have easy access to every personal service, outstanding restaurant, and form of entertainment you could possibly imagine. I’d be sick of a cabin in the woods within a week.
I’ve been living in a cabin (small log house) in a rural part of Ohio for 20 years. It’s on 15 acres of partially wooded land, and the cabin can’t be seen from the road.
I love the privacy. But there’s a price to be paid: I spend my summers replacing/installing chink and sealant while perched atop ladders & scaffolding. It’s a never-ending job. 
Retiring to a cabin sounds like a nightmare to me.
There are no amenities nearby. I find the wilderness boring after two days. Plus a cabin always needs upkeep. Wood needs to be chopped, roofs repaired, animals fed, crops tended to. And as you get older that stuff is more and more tiring and possibly not doable.
Sounds like hell. Tons of hard labor you aren’t paid for just to maintain a subsistence living with long periods of boredom.
I think it’s a metaphor for getting away from. Society though. But society is nice.
I intend to retire to a small condo in an urban area.
I’ve lived 30 minutes from the nearest grocery store, and an hour to a shopping center. No, thank you.
The privacy is the thing for me too. It’s a ton of work where I live, but I still love it.
If I get enough money to retire, I am living smack dab in the middle of a big bustling urban city. Albeit next to a big leisurely park, though, if possible.
I want to be near:
Numerous options for good restaurants so I don’t eat Mac and cheese from a box for 20 years.
An airport so I can experience new things.
A hospital and good ambulance services so I don’t die for dumb reasons, like having a heart attack that can be responded to in minutes instead of next Thursday after the snow clears.
People because solitude rots the brain.
YMMV.
You’ll have to scrimp and save.
I absolutely would love to live somewhere where the closest neighbor was not only not visible but out of hearing range, too–no motor sounds, nothing. Trees on all sides, only far enough Way that there is no risk of one falling on the house. There would be a stream near enough to hear from the house, and ideally a small pond with an even smaller island in the middle, just big enough for a few trees, reachable by rowboat (a relative of mine used to have a pond like that a couple of hundred feet away.)
Of course it goes without saying that I’d want to still have broadband internet access, too.
Oh, HELL, no! I want convenience and things to do. For the record, all those sweet old ladies wearing flowing clothing and doing light stretching while they paint pretty watercolors in their garden while waiting on their adorable grandchildren to stop by* don’t reflect my reality or wishes. A cabin in the country sounds like pure hell to me.
I need public transportation, a bar, entertainment, a gym, a pool, stuff going ON! I have macular degeneration so at some point, I will have to give up the car. I don’t need “peace and quiet” now; I can’t imagine why that would change in the future. My parents and grandparents both moved INTO town from the country as they got older. Fixing stuff that breaks down, dealing with ice storms, septic tanks, water wells, and the occasional rabid animal (foxes and skunks, no thanks) is a young person’s game. I’ll stay in town with a bus pass and 5G wifi.
(*As illustrated by every insurance, blood pressure, diabetes, and laxative commercial aimed at anyone over fifty.)
The only way it could work for me is if I was not completely alone physically (with some family or friends with me, or at least nearby), had access to Internet so I wouldn’t be alone or bored mentally, and was able to get everything shipped to me.
And, yes, it counts as a spoiler, IMHO, since one of the things people had been wondering about from the previous movie was what the survivors were up to. Sure, normally the starting parts of a movie aren’t spoilers, but it’s a bit different with sequels. And it did seem that people were genuinely surprised by this revelation. If people were surprised, then I think it counts as a spoiler, even if only a minor one.
But, even if you disagree think so, the idea is silly that, if you haven’t seen it in three weeks, you’re not interested and thus it’s not a spoiler. It’s not even out of theaters, let alone available on home video yet. Clearly there are people who still haven’t seen it.