Comments on: Alternative Retirement: A Lighthouse?

By: daffodil

daffodil — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:29:32 +0000

My sentiments exactly!! Have you had any response to your query or any other ideas? I know many close-to retirement folks with the same dilemma. I will continue to search but would like to share some thoughts–just to see if I’m nuts or not.

By: Minimum Wage

Minimum Wage — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:05:56 +0000

I’m looking to find decent places where poor Americans could go to retire.

I imagine health care would be a major concern, since Medicare (to the extent it will still exist) won’t be any help to retirees outside the country.

Perhaps it would be feasible to retire, say, a few miles south of the border, and commute back north for health care?

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By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:13:45 +0000

This sounds great, but both government sites made it sound much rarer to buy one than the two business articles implied. One of the gov’t sites even said “Federally-owned lighthouses rarely pass into private ownership.” It said that in 1999 only one lighthouse moved to private hands. And the gov’t property auction site only had barren lots in AZ! That’s no fun at all :)

By: Mrs. Micah

Mrs. Micah — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:16:31 +0000

Maybe if it was on land. I’m claustrophobic and I think being out in the water itself would have a similar effect to being locked in a bathroom–panic!

A lighthouse on land, on the other hand, would be a great place for me to make quilts and put pictures of myself online looking like a nice quaint old lady who must make awesome quilts so you should buy one. :) (that was a convoluted sentence!)

The stairs would be good exercise until I got too old for them.

Still going with New Zealand.