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IN YOUR OWN  HOME  TOWN - part 1

For one thing, perhaps you are already living in one of the land's bargain paradises. Perhaps your home is already in Florida, Southern California, Arizona, or the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Why leave? Why not retire where you are already?

In fact, there are often advantages in simply retiring in your own home town. Possibly you have a house already paid for, and undoubtedly you have a good many connections, not to speak of friends and relatives. Very possibly your credit is good at the bank, to start a retirement project.

And, of course, there may be many reasons why you cannot just get up and go—as I did—leaving the old world behind you. Possibly you have aged parents depending upon your presence. Perhaps you have children in the local schools, and hesitate to take them from their friends and classes.

But whatever the reason, this chapter is devoted to the reader who wishes to retire but is in no position to leave the home in which he now resides.

Books on retirement are a dime a dozen, and you can go to the local library and find an armload of them to study. They'll give you a multitude of ideas on how to cut prices, to live cheaply, to make a hobby of bringing prices down. I could give you a good many of these too, everything from suggesting that your wife start canning her own fruits and vegetables in season, to you learning to repair the family shoes and cutting your own hair. Such items can save a mint of money if you're trying to live economically. However, space limitations make it a bit of the ridiculous side, my competing with all the library books, Government Printing Office pamphlets and the other publications devoted to retiring on a budget.

The purpose of this book is more to get you in the frame of mind to take this retirement step. To show you examples of others who have done it successfully. To give you that little push that will result in your getting off the treadmill and making a more satisfactory way of life.

But there is one thing I'd like to stress in this matter of retiring in your own home town. If you packed your things one day, collected whatever savings you had, and took off for Sarasota, Florida; Grass Valley, California; or Sante Fe, New Mexico, and once there started your new way of life, there would be nobody to look you askance. It would seem completely natural to them, as would any project you might develop in order to augment your income.

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