Re:Early Retirement (2006)
by myth_drannon on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:28PM
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Living far away from your children and grandchildren is really sad, especially once you get old and need help and company.
Re:Early Retirement (2006)
by spacedcowboy on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:52PM
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But... I won't be ?
I'm a Brit. I have lots of family in the UK. My wife doesn't have any siblings, her mother lives in Costa Rica, and her father lives in Southern CA but hasn't visited in the 10 years we've been married (we've been there).
Perhaps it wasn't clear, but I was expecting the kid (man, at that point, I guess) to come with - there's plenty of excellent universities in the UK, and he'll even be legally able to have a beer or two...
Re:Early Retirement (2006)
by toomuchtodo on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:04PM
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Some might say you're giving your son a gift having citizenship in both the US and the UK. Options are freedom.
Must be raging that that doesn't include EU citizenship now
Re:Early Retirement (2006)
by spacedcowboy on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:24PM
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What can I say ? Idiots.
Not that I had any say, I've been out of the country too long to vote now.
Plenty of that happens in the US too though. I grew up in the Rust Belt but have lived my entire post-college life (more than 2.5 decades) on the west coast.
By the time you need to get on a plane to visit, 2000 miles vs 5000 miles isn't a tremendous difference. (Assuming normal times with open borders).
Re:Early Retirement (2006)
by myth_drannon on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:46PM
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Every time your elderly father gets sick are you going take the plane? Take him to the doctor? Wash him, prepare dinner.
Not everyone can afford retirement facility.
The long term plan was always to make sufficient money to retire early, then go home. Complicating this easy straightforward idea was that I got married (!) and now have a kid who I don't want to uproot. So now I wait for college-days, and then sod off back to the UK :)
The cost of my (paid off) house in the Bay Area will fund a small mansion by the sea in the UK. Long walks on the beach with the dog seem appropriate, and will even be good for my old age :)