By
Vic Odarve
To find a great place to
live after retirement is not an easy task. Environment, climate, and cost of
living should be the top priority among the concerns. Environment includes its
neighborhood, crime rates, and cultural diversity. Weather, too, considering
the extremes, cold and hot, often affects old age health. Living cost, for
many, must be sustained. The golden age years is a life altering event; hence a
place to live in must provide a great sense of joy and happiness.
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| Playing with kids |
The environment dictates
the way on how you live. And it is just a matter of your choice. It could be
from rural areas to a bustling city or in the land of your birth. It depends
much on your way of life… spending time in sandy beaches to forested scenic
beauty or to cities nightlife. Others want to sing hymns and praises in the name of the Lord;
thus devoting more in the church activities. It is getting to the part of life
where we can just enjoy after retirement.
After getting a good and
sound environment, extreme weather conditions must be checked. The place must
not be extremely hot or cold. Temperate weather throughout the year is usually
the best. Typhoons, hurricane, tsunamis, and other related weather disturbances
can be a threatening scenario among older age. Weather conditions must not
affect any of your health problems. Excruciating pain from rheumatisms, muscles
aches, and heart problems are largely aggravated by an extreme weather.
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| Relatives and friends are more precious than other resources |
Whether
you have enough savings or investments, the cost of living could not be taken
for granted. Savings and investments sometimes go wrong. Bank closures and
investment misfortunes are in the mess. Usually, living in great cities, cost of living is higher than nation’s
average; but for those who can afford with the lifestyle, it may set up your
mood. It also has all the required amenities and is pleasantly bustling city
life. Try to locate one which is the most cost effective and safest cities in
the country. Select a quiet, and peaceful cities where the crime rates are
impressively low. Living in rural areas, however, are not expensive as in
cities and it may help well to sustain your daily needs because you do not know
how long you live. Some retirees may live 100 years or
more—a centenarian— a rarity, but today it is common. Whatever
you have money in banks or investment, it can be sustained further by choosing
your lifestyle in retirement.
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You ought not to spend
your life at home alone in old age! Although money can give conveniences, there
are happiness and enjoyments that make your retirement life worth living.
Friends, relatives, family, and good health are far more important than your large
savings or investment. If by God’s will you have enough resources, learn to
share with others and it will transform your life. Being a grandparent, leaving
your sons and daughters and their grown up kids successful makes you feel happier.
Indeed, to find a
place where to spend the twilight years is a difficult task. Like Elijah on his
journey to Mount Horeb, the angel of the Lord reminded him;
"Get up and eat, for the
journey is too long for you." 1 Kings 19:7
Indeed, life is a journey, nothing less. A place to live in our twilight years must be prepared.
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