Last night I watched an episode of Destination Truth... they were on Easter Island, which really drew my attention.

After the kids are grown and out of the house.. my plan is to move someplace in life were the population is low, the lifestyle is a much slower pace and the governmental oversight is very lax.

Immediately I thought of North Dakota.. but too damn cold. :)

So I added another requirement of mild to warm weather all year long; if possible avoiding real hot weather in the summer season.

With the path that this country is going down.. I am kind of crossing off the thought of Hana on Maui's north shore.

So that opens the door to anywhere outside of the United states..

This is where PH.com comes in and the vast amount of knowledge and experience can be tapped.. throw some ideas out on a location to retire in comfortably on a moderate nest egg and hitting the criteria above.

Yes this is probably 15 to 20 years off.. but you know the 7 P's. ;)

I think I may fit in well on Easter Island.. albeit I might go stir crazy on that small of a land plot and a lack of hunting game.

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Sounds like you're moving to Colorado. It's never cold here. Okay, if you ask around here, they say 60 is cold, but truthfully, 60 here feels like low to mid 70's in Green Bay. The nights get down to the sub 30's, but then the high is 50's - 60's at least ... nearly all year round.

Considering you can go to "Weed Shops" to get stoned, I'd say the government is fairly lax here.


Let's trade, I wanna go home ...

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Resided in Denver for a couple of weeks in the mid 90's.. beautiful backdrop but way to populated for me.

Now.. outside of Glenwood Springs.. possibilities.. but that still places me under US law and taxation.. if I am staying in the US territory.. I will be lounging on the north shore of Maui. 🙂

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Who said Denver?? Nice area to visit, but I don't think I'd live there. Fort Collins is great, because there is an amazing amount of unbelievably attractive women roaming around. Although, at times, too many people. But the ladies here, ... wow. Back home you find a 7 or 8 once in a while. Here, you see half dozen going through Walmart.

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Move out here to Bismarck my man. We are on the edge of the Banana belt and the winters are getting more mild (coldness wise, cue the video from VR shooting holes in my theory). You know we get all that Fed gov't pork, so the economy is booming. The oil business is eliminating our tax burden. You get awesome bird hunting and I'll take you mule deer hunting. You can buy a beautiful condo for 200K and have no yardwork, buy a pontoon and fish the Missouri all summer. The month of January and February are a bitch though, but that's what Vegas, Arizona and Florida are for. No riff, raff or cultural bull shit to deal with either.

Rapid City isn't bad either, but not nearly as nice a city as Bismarck is. Fuck Colorado, full of dumbass Bronco fans.

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More Packers fans here than you'd guess. In fact, the lady who lives below me is a huge Packers fans.

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Easter Island would suck for the same reason Iceland & Haiti would suck - it's been mostly denuded. I like trees. You won't see any there.

The world would be so much nicer if 3 billion humans would drop dead.

OK, you want real ideas instead of fantasy? Move to New Zealand. It's only got 4 million people. Well, for now. Just wait until someone with white liberal guilt comes into power and starts talking about how NZ needs more diversity and suddenly, the population will skyrocket to 30 million and it will suck just like everywhere else.

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Take my word for it.

TAIPA New Zealand.

Simmply remarkable and some of the most remarkable people I have met in my life. The Mauri people are so incredibly family oriented and kind. The Mauri children will knock on your door eery night and ask if you them to get you anything for dinner from their fridge. Which just happens to be the Ocean. Then they will go out in their boats and free dive for your dinner. I always ordered Green muscles which you cook on the barbie until they open up and then pour beer on them.

You can take a drive over to 99 mile beach, drive miles on the beach, set up a tent and not see another human for a week.

www.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipa-Mangonui

R.P.

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I second what RP said. NZ folk are the nicest people you'll ever run into. I just pray they don't liberalize their immigration policy. It's no coincidence that all the great outdoor movies (Lord of the Rings for instance) will be filmed there. There is still unspoiled land out there (and I'm not talking about tundra, I mean something worth seeing).

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New Zealand I pondered.. but thank you for the input.

Yes.. this is a serious thought.. it will be something I plan for, if I can obtain it and be amble enough to enjoy it may be the question. But I have to readjust the goal.. I just lack the long term confidence in this nation on its current path. So.. plan B needs to be constructed.

Easter Island was an example.. probably not a true consideration past the low population numbers. I have done the big city life.. it does not wear well on me. Heck a town of 900 and 10 acres of land feels restricting.. I have this concrete type phobia, lol.

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