Where to Retire

speckledhen

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Someone emailed this to me today; thought you'd get a chuckle out of it. (Not sure if this has been posted before, so sorry if it has)


You can retire to Phoenix , Arizona where
1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
2. You've experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
3. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave tow n.
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
6. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!

You can retire to California where
1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
3. You know how to eat an artichoke.
4. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
6. T he 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought.

You can retire to New York City where
1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan .
2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
3. You think Central Park is "nature."
4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
5. You've worn out a car horn. (ed note: if you have a car)
6. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.

You can retire to Maine where
1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco .
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for moose.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.

You can retire to the Deep South where
1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2. "Y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural.
3. "He needed killin'" is a valid defense.
4. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Sue, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc.
5. Everything is either "in yonder," "over yonder" or "out yonder." It's important to know the difference, too.


You can retire to Colorado where
1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and so he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.

You can retire to the Midwest where
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"

AND You can retire to Florida where
1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excelle nt dermatologist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you often appear to be driven by headless people.
 
Quote:
Cynthia, I LOVE this! I'll have to make one up for Cape Cod. But we do have plenty of headless people here, and they're not all blue-hairs!

Great post!
 
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Cynthia, I LOVE this! I'll have to make one up for Cape Cod. But we do have plenty of headless people here, and they're not all blue-hairs!

Great post!

Can't wait! It's at the top of my retirement list!
 
You can retire to Cape Cod if:

1. When someone says Minnesota, you look puzzled and ask "is that off-Cape"?
2. You think living rooms normally have a thin layer of sand on the floor.
3. You don't mind when friends let themselves into your house when you're at work and you open your fridge later to find two pounds of fresh tuna caught the day before (this happened to us yesterday!).
4. 10 months of mind-numbing isolation followed by 2 months of pure chaos won't bother you.
 
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Oh my gosh, these are so funny!! Me and my parents LOL'd.
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You can retire to GEORGIA where:

(1) Every person past the age of 5 years old can give you directions to the Big Chicken.

(2) There are 481 streets with the word Peachtree in their name, and thats only counting the ones in Fulton county.

(3) It is an unwritten state law that at first mention of the word snow you must go directly to a grocery store to buy milk and bread.

(4) You can own a home in the beautiful and historic town of Kennesaw, but only if you own a gun. (This is NOT a joke, it is a real law!)

(5) The four seasons are: Warm & humid, Hot & humid, Chilly at night & humid and Cold & humid.
 
These are funny. Here's another...

You can retire to Seattle if:
1. You know more than 10 ways to order coffee.
2. You can learn how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, and Issaquah.
3. You consider swimming an indoor sport.
4. You know how to design your kid's Halloween costume to fit under a raincoat.
5. You wear shorts when the temperature gets above 50 but still wear your hiking boots and parka.
 

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