Me and the little woman, have recently discussed selling out completely. Buying a motor coach and spend our retired years traveling North America. Just bouncing around and taking it all in.

I had rented a place for a few days in Concord Heights (Westwood area) and the folks I rented from lived on the other side of the road and said they lived in Angelina county and the taxes were cheaper. The rental was across the road and in Jasper County. Crazy !

We plan to move to AR to my wife's childhood home in 2023. House was built in 1965 but we've pretty much redone everything but still have one bathroom to redo. My wife retires from her job after 37 years of employment. Only job she's ever had since graduating with her masters degree from UofA. We've been in DFW for 21 years now but I'm ready to move to the country. I will continue to work from home and still travel. It will be culture shock moving to a little bitty community called Ratcliff, AR, pop. 202 as compared to DFW. It will be very different, no doubt. We have 25 acres and an old 1965 built 1800sq ft 3-bedroom house, no neighbors within yelling distance, and a 15acre tank that's loaded with fish that is on 100acres next to us that is SIL and BIL property that we treat as our own. I won't miss the rat race with all that. Just put a new roof on the house. I am fixing to start construction on a 30X50 metal building next to the house. Guttering goes up in two weeks. Full electric reroute from overhead to all underground is underway now. It'll all be ready to go before we know it. As long as my health holds up, I'll prolly work at least another 10 years. I'm 60 now but I also love my job. Why quit when you're having fun? We thank the Good Lord every day for this opportunity that we have. If we don't sell the place once we get too old to take care of it, we will give it to our children. Hopefully, they will have a family someday and be able to enjoy it like we have done. DFW has been an experience, and we've had a blast here. We raised our kids in Texas, so that's what they consider themselves. I'll always be an Okie, though, no matter where I go.....

We have kicked a few things around. I’m like TexDawg and have talked about moving out of the country but realistically that’s probably not going to happen. Thinking about buying a home in Pagosa Springs. We have friends who live there and they love it. Not sure about that plan either as we don’t want to be too far from our kids and hopefully grandkids at some point! Lots to consider. I do know that there is a less than zero percent chance that I will retire where I currently live. I miss the country

You know how to pick 'em. My wife doesn't want anything to do with that. I think it would be fun for a few years.

Sounds like some hard work, good living and a dream plan come true. I wish you - and family - nothing but the best!!!

My mom grew up in Branch.

Thanks, Sawhorse. Davedave....I remember you telling me that. The thriving metropolis of Branch is about 350 population. You know what I mean by adjusting to the culture shock. Nobody moves very fast over there. But there’s a bunch of good folks and that’s all that matters.

Currently investigating places where my SS can cover monthly costs of ownership/rental. Looking very favorably towards the mid-central TX area, near Richland/Chambers reservoir.

There's not many areas that my SS can cover. Sad prospect for VNVets and others. God BlessAmerica ! ! !

I am 61 and have too much [censored] going on to even think about retiring, I have places to go to if I need to get out of the city, fortunately I have what some of you are looking for, good luck to all of you, you have worked your tails off for many years, you deserve whatever you want.

East Texas Dan. Yeah we're all on meth but we're happy livin with our sister/wife in our single wides.

Lowest COL in Texas unless you get down there in the brush country or maybe some of west Texas

58. Planned to retire at 65. Don’t know if I can hold out that long. Already 40 years at the same job so retirement income will be decent. So tired of the city and all the wokeness. Looking forward to small town life somewhere. Need to start figuring it out. Thinking two small homes in different areas of the country. Stay away from both bitter cold and blazing heat.

We bought a little house in Seadrift 12 years ago, strictly fish camp, family place to go. If you're looking for a dullsville nothing going on little town this is it. The gravy maker decided this was going to be where we checked out of society, and we bought the "stick" house knowing it needed a full renovation, but it was cheap, and was on a canal, which is really rare. We started working on it, stripped down to the studs, all new new new new everything from wiring to plumbing to windows, deck etc etc. Did 90% of the work myself, you'd get help and they'd vapor in two days.

Anyway, at the Marble Falls house two years ago, which is way out in the country, fella drives up and says he works with my neighbor (two miles down the road) and said you might want to sell your place. 8 acres, 2 acre pond, house, guest house horse barn, not fancy but solid. Well I haven't really thought about it. Well what would you want for it? Really I haven't thought about it,what would you offer? He spit out a number.....way above anything I would have even dreamed of. Yeah, we can do that. He has cash, no realtor, nothing but sign the deed over. Two weeks later he had the keys.

And last month we officially moved in for good. I travel for work, so home is wherever I want it to be. I am thankful that we are here for the past year, it never changed. Plague, lockdown, election, didn't matter, Seadrift never varied one bit. If some Karen tried to hoard toilet paper or something, the cashier would tell them to put that stuff back, and come get what you need. We're not running out, and especially not running out because of YOU....

Four years and I'm done for good. Don't owe anyone for anything, and live in a place you want to be at. I love Texas and Texans.

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I've known and met several that have done this. Met many in some of the RV places we've been. I still like having a home base. It is near stores and doctors and hospitals. The best of both worlds would be having a lake house somewhere semi-secluded and rural and a suburb place. If you buy one of those huge Phaeton motor homes, you will still need to buy a puddle jumper car to pull behind it. You wouldn't want to have to disconnect everything every time you needed to run to the Wallmarx.

Really good topic & find myself wanting a barndominium on a quiet 10 acres. Gotta get pretty far out of town to find something affordable in central Texas hill country. Liking Rockdale area, San Saba, Gonzales, Giddings... the list goes on.