Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

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Never had any friends, so moving anywhere didn't matter in that regard. For most of college/my early adult life my parents were away overseas in places like Iraq and Israel, so didn't matter if I was near them, though I generally stayed within a day's drive of "home" pretty much. Never was able to make a social circle anywhere I moved to, either, so I can pretty much just go wherever and it won't matter.
 
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Do you have the ability to get HK residency easily through your parents or something at least?

I am planning for my semi-retirement in the next decade out in Wyoming. Just looking for a property I really want.
yea if i wanted to i could obtain dual nationality
 
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I really like the way western wyoming looks,
You and everyone else. People pay millions to look out the window at a mountain. If you can learn to love sagebrush and wind you can have *way* more land and way fewer neighbors in eastern Wyoming. I'd like to know how many acres you could buy out there for the price of an acre in Jackson Hole. The other thing about anywhere near Jackson Hole is that no matter how rich you are there will be people around that make you look like a pauper.
 

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You and everyone else. People pay millions to look out the window at a mountain. If you can learn to love sagebrush and wind you can have *way* more land and way fewer neighbors in eastern Wyoming. I'd like to know how many acres you could buy out there for the price of an acre in Jackson Hole. The other thing about anywhere near Jackson Hole is that no matter how rich you are there will be people around that make you look like a pauper.
Enough wind to justify a turbine?
 
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You and everyone else. People pay millions to look out the window at a mountain. If you can learn to love sagebrush and wind you can have *way* more land and way fewer neighbors in eastern Wyoming. I'd like to know how many acres you could buy out there for the price of an acre in Jackson Hole. The other thing about anywhere near Jackson Hole is that no matter how rich you are there will be people around that make you look like a pauper.
Yea, the prices get comically insane in the good areas. 1 acre or less lot homes for the local paupers costing 10million dollars. Especially since its basically your personal ski base a few months out of the year with how bad the winters have to be. I'll settle for a nice oil painting hanging on my wall and flying out to the mountains if I feel the need. I'd much rather have land to work on anyways. As pretty as mountains are to look at, I have more fun driving a tractor around.
 
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moonarchia

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For sure. They're building giant wind farms out there right now.
Good to know. One of the dream endings for me would be a nice tiny home on a large empty bit of land. Be as off grid as possible. Starlink. Solar and wind. I would be just fine until my corpse was found decades later.
 
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Haus

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Chicago has gone full retard. If my company wasn't headquartered here and I didn't have family here, I would never come back.
I once worked in a small company, it was sold to and absorbed by a larger company based in Schaumberg. They were so cheap they figured the best way to have a company sales kick off was to force everybody to spend a week in Schaumberg (sp? like IGAF?).. And spend it there for yearly kickoff.. in Feb.
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They did that the first year after acquiring the company I was at around Thanksgiving the November before. High temp for the week we were there was... I believe... 8. Within 2 months over half the people from the little company I had been at quit.


I think I'm looking at it from how hard it's been to form a circle of quality people over 20+ years living in the same place here. It's tough and it's getting tougher. Good to hear you guys have been able to do it successfully, it's definitely something I'm worried about.
Yeah, only gets worse as you get older in my experience. In my 20's I was the ringleader of a 60 person crew of people partying constantly, camping as often as we could. Now in my 50's , I have my wife, one really close friend, some yahoos I'm in a fantasy football league with, and well... all you jackwagons. May God have mercy on my soul.
 
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I think I'm looking at it from how hard it's been to form a circle of quality people over 20+ years living in the same place here. It's tough and it's getting tougher. Good to hear you guys have been able to do it successfully, it's definitely something I'm worried about.
Standard adult problem. Very few shared interests, no spare time, been there done that syndrome. It gets more pronounced as you age. Most simply, adults over age 45 just want to be left alone and even moreso empty nest.

Friends of mine have 1-6 kids. They all want my peaceful existence. Friend with 6 daughters for SURE gives me sideways looks. Circumstance swap type of thing.

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I once worked in a small company, it was sold to and absorbed by a larger company based in Schaumberg. They were so cheap they figured the best way to have a company sales kick off was to force everybody to spend a week in Schaumberg (sp? like IGAF?).. And spend it there for yearly kickoff.. in Feb.
Justin Timberlake Judging You GIF

They did that the first year after acquiring the company I was at around Thanksgiving the November before. High temp for the week we were there was... I believe... 8. Within 2 months over half the people from the little company I had been at quit.



Yeah, only gets worse as you get older in my experience. In my 20's I was the ringleader of a 60 person crew of people partying constantly, camping as often as we could. Now in my 50's , I have my wife, one really close friend, some yahoos I'm in a fantasy football league with, and well... all you jackwagons. May God have mercy on my soul.
Schaumberg is at least safe, but it's not a destination. I used to go the mall there with my friends when I was a kid. it was, indoors, decent, and a lot of cute girls lived in those parts. Winter sucks in the Chicago land area, though.