The accountant says we can retire early. Woohoo!!!

[ultrarunner]

The starting over and packing up isn’t fully comprehended unless you have experienced it.

Have you ever checked your parents Hayward home or your San Leandro home estimated market value?

 

[EddieWalker]

I just looked on Zillow for the house I grew up in, and there isn't anything in the area that's for sale right now, but they have $1.35 million listed as its value. They sold it in the late 90's for $350,000 and thought they did very well. They bought it in the mid 70's for $27,000

 

[ultrarunner]

Amazing isn’t it?

Just think the annual property tax if that home was in Oakland today would be a few thousand short of what your folks paid…

This is why many here retire by cashing out and leaving…

It’s been a few years but my co worker retired to Alabama where her husband is from.

They sold their double wide in California for 220k and bough a brick home with a little land for 110k and pocketed a 100k

 

[EddieWalker]

When I moved to Tyler in 2002, it was easy to buy a really nice brick house in a good neighborhood for $150,000. Land was a thousand an acre. I looked at some houses on some of the local lakes with nice docks, an acre of land and around 2,000 square feet of living area for under $200,000. Now it's all triple that amount except the land, that's getting hard to find at $10,000 an acre.

 

[ericm979]

After these current work projects, I really am done. Or extremely selective of what projects I take.

My former employer contacted me last week and asked if I'd be willing to do some consulting. I actually thought about it for a few minutes before saying no.

 

[ultrarunner]

Several offered early buyouts during pandemic have been courted to come back.

So far no takers.

 

[jyoutz]

When I decided to move to Texas, my first choice was in the Kerrville area. I really like the terrain and all the free ranging exotics. But it didn't feel like a good area to find a job, and the land was already very pricey there. I looked farther out, but that meant fewer opportunities to find work.

Sometimes we talk about where we would move to if we left Tyler, and the Hill Country is still one of our choices, but so is Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota. In all reality, we're probably just going to stay here as long as we can. I really hate the idea of packing up, selling all my stuff, and starting all over again.

I have always liked the Kerrville area, but real estate isn’t cheap there.