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Originally Posted by BMill
We are about 70, healthy, active and live in South Florida in a nice area. We will keep that home.
My husband is self employed as a CPA and I am a mortgage broker. We have employees but need to continue the self employment for our income. Plus, the employees aren't ready knowledge wise or financially wise to take it over.
I am trying to get my husband to understand he could work remotely. We would be entertaining TV for the social activities including golf. It is hard to pull him away from work and there is always one more phone call to make or one more thing to get done.
However, I know we are getting older and I have 3 questions -
(1) We do not look as old as we are. Most of our friends think we are under 62 are their comments are "Well, you don't even qualify for SS yet....etc" We are not vain. Are we too old to fit in at TV? We are not the sit around and watch TV type.
(2) If we go out to eat, we like a bit more upscale. Not chain unless it's Cheesecake Factory or Capital Grille. Any good places around? (We'd rather eat at home and go out for special times).
(3) Is it possible to get business for our self employment businesses or are people turned off talking about work?
We are planning to come up this summer and rent for a month with our most adorable Sheltie (soon to be joined by a Collie puppy).
Also, when he is actually pulled away from his work, he's fine.
Thanks for any help.
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My wife and I moved to The Villages when I was 58 and she was 57. I worked as a college professor teaching accounting and finance classes and it was done entirely remotely. She was also an accountant and wound down her business before we moves, except for a few who would just not take no for an answer, She worked remotely with those few for several years, using email, fax, and snail mail or Fedex and it worked wonderfully well. We loved being able to be together 24/7, though we each had an office setup in separate bedrooms (we hired a contractor to build in a desk setup with cupboards in each of two bedrooms in our home. Close the closet doors and you couldn't tell).
Personally we both feel the restaurants around The Villages are mostly just adequate. Palmer and Lopez are nicer and the food is better than most of the other country clubs, in our opinion. I'm 71 and my wife passed away nearly 2 years ago now, but I feel like I fit in still. As for generating new business, by and large the majority of the population here are retired folks. They still have a need for tax prep and investment advice, but beyond that most do not want to talk about business from my experience. Others may have a different opinion, but that was our experience. Good luck to both of you.