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Originally Posted by Dirigo
That's straight to the point! As a cancer survivor I sense my hospital bed is waiting for me and it is just a matter of time before I have to get back in it. I'm all for retiring ASAP and living on whatever we have for money. You can always earn more money. You can't earn more time.
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Dirigo, and fellow Mainer, I couldn't agree more. I, too, am a cancer survivor and this darned disease sure causes us to wake up and smell the roses...NOW. I don't regret for one minute the decision to stop working and retire early. All one has to do is read the obituaries every day to realize that many of us will not make it out of our seventies. There are not enough words to express how grateful I am to have had these 13 years here in The Villages. Our first several years here were tough, financially, but we found plenty of things to do that fit within our means. I would much rather have had a retirement on a budget during those years than to have not had that time here at all.