This topic can grow to encompass a broad range of dicussion categories with feedback from our users helping to determine the future content of this topic.  For the founders of LifePast50 “where to live” has different meanings and are the sub-topics for this page:

Downsizing – implies selling the family home and moving into usually smaller but almost always more a more suitable living environment; suitable can mean smaller space, bigger gardens, or less maintenance and maybe even moving downtown from the suburbs.

Moving to the Cottage or however one defines escaping to a location that is quieter, more rural and usually more recreational.  This could be a chalet near a ski hill or a cottage on a lake, river or ocean.  We’ve escaped to these spots over our lifetime and retiring there became, if not an ambition, then surely a something to think seriously about.

Living Somewhere Warm is certainly a goal for many of us who just dislike winter in Canada.  A few Canadians chose to move permanently to Florida or California.  Others either rent or buy in warmer climes intending to live there during winter months only.  So we’re looking for your stories – successes or failures to help guide the many that are planning on spending more time south.

Buying Recreational (Vacation) Property is a subject applicable to the entire “where to live” topic inasmuch as we are buying a property where we’ll be living much of our time at.  This can be a cottage (cabin, farm, chalet), a condo in Arizona or a boat you can call home.