In the last couple of weeks, I've begun to harbor a secret fantasy... My fantasy has captured my imagination, and whenever my mind has time to rest quietly, I find myself dwelling on the possibilities...
In my fantasy, we sell our cars and our homes; liquidate everything; we take our respective retirement benefits -- and we retire to Mexico.
There is inexpensive health care available there. We could easily rent a comfortable and attractive home for a about a quarter of the price we pay each month for our two condos. We'd have less stress. We'd have more time. No more packing our lives in around our work and the demands that makes.
In my fantasy, we sell our cars and our homes; liquidate everything; we take our respective retirement benefits -- and we retire to Mexico.
There is inexpensive health care available there. We could easily rent a comfortable and attractive home for a about a quarter of the price we pay each month for our two condos. We'd have less stress. We'd have more time. No more packing our lives in around our work and the demands that makes. It seems like heaven to me. I keep finding myself imagining a life that is simple and uncluttered and that moves at the pace we set. I am, I guess, wanting to run away from all this grown up worry and work. It is completely and utterly impractical I suppose, but somehow my mind just won't let it go.
Maybe I'll start studying a bit of Spanish... Won't hurt anything, and it will feed my dream.
swan
It sounds like a really, really nice dream.
ReplyDeleteMy mother is actually renting a place in Mexico for two months this winter (she hates the cold, so she likes to get away for the bitterest months).
I've been invited to visit. (I have the distinct feeling this is because I'm conversational in Spanish and can teach her how to ask for more wine.)
I'll let you know if I fall in love with it. I'll probably take a lot of pictures to add some warmth to my blog in the frigid months. And maybe I'll conjure up my own dream while I'm at it.
~Chloe
my sister spent a year in a small Mexican town around 3 months after her twins were born. Her husband sold his business, they packed up a station wagon with twins, 2 year old and belongings and travelled across the states into Mexico where they spent around 14 months ... just kicking back, enjoying life - so it can happen.
ReplyDeleteMyself, I want my little cottage with my dogs on Grand Manan ....
i for one most definitely "hear" you swan........ especially after the last couple of weeks of stress for Sir.. and for me - i have to admit - the thought of retiring off somewhere far away from the hustle and bustle sounds pretty damn good....
ReplyDeleteIn fact just the thought that Sir and i could actually be together 24/7 sounds pretty damn good !!!
When we have times like these - that is the time i most spend dreaming about life after ______
Then things turn around a bit... and i put those thoughts to the back of mind.....
morningstar (owned by Warren)
Me, too, me, too! I love my loved ones, and I am so lucky to have them when others don't, but we are going through a very long period of working all the time trying to keep them all afloat while they wish we did more. When we make it home, things here are a complete wreck, and falling apart for the lack of time and care we are spending at the multiple other residences. Sigh. Take me to Mexico with you; he can take pictures, I will quilt. We can have adult conversations, and sometimes none... Heaven!
ReplyDeleteHi everyone -- thanks for sharing in my little mental journey into the realm of make believe. I don't think I am so much attached to a place as I am to the idea that such a radical life change might be possible. Mexico appeals mostly because it seems it might be economically feasible on much less, and therefore much earlier than some other possibilities.
ReplyDeleteI am just so fed up with cramming the part of our life that I enjoy into one day on the weekend while all the other days and evenings are sucked up just working our tails off trying to stay alive. I know that we aren't that old in absolute terms, but I hate the thought that we might have to grind this out to the end of our days, or until we are just to old and sick to care anymore...
swan
I hear Costa Rica is pretty nice...less crime than Mexico too. *winks*
ReplyDeleteVery similar to my longing to win the lottery. I don't want a bigger house or anything fancy, I just want more available time. And my perception is that more money (or smaller expenses) will give me the gift of time. Time to enjoy and relax and live as His, without having to leave the house for 10-12 hours a day to work. And then when I do return home, out of energy and spent, there are still all the household chores to take care of. I need more time, and more energy. I think that's also what you want. I suspect a siesta everyday would be good too, lol!
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