It seems each generation likes to redefine retirement. The Silent Generation (now 70 and up) flocked to golf courses. Their parents spent a lot of time in the easy chair reading the newspaper. Boomers can’t sit still; they’re taking on new challenges and traveling the world.
And while each generation goes about retirement a little differently, one constant for each new wave of retirees is dreams of where to live in retirement. They migrated to the sunbelt like geese near the turn of the century. Thriving urban areas have been the magnet for the last decade or so.
So what about you, Gen X: Where do you want to live in retirement?
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I’ll go first… (see comments)
Retire Gen X 
Dolores, CO
I don’t dare tell my wife, but I dream of Dolores often. Dolores is a rustic little town of less than a thousand people on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies. I envision starting my days with a thermos of coffee fly fishing down at the banks of the Dolores River on the edge of town. If I land no rainbows there, no worries. After it warms up a bit, I just launch my boat and try my luck at the McPhee Reservoir on the other side of town.
I’m guessing around November each year it will get a little cold for fishing. That’s when I’ll get my ski gear tuned up and count down the days till opening day at Telluride Ski Resort about 65 miles up the hill. When I need a break from fishing and skiing, I can choose between hiking and bicycling. The reason I don’t dare tell my wife of this grand plan is it’s loaded with things she wants no part of: cold temperatures, fish, snow and small towns. She does like to hike though. Oh well, you can’t win ’em all.
We’ll probably keep one foot in the Phoenix area and take trips around the southwest and California or wherever our daughters end up putting down roots.
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