Rethink Retirement – Longer Term Plans

Thinking about retirement … some people think long term, with others it will creep up on them.

Good to think about different things – location, activity

But also the longer term … can we make our home age appropriate, move to something smaller and have to clear the clutter. Its easy to do this at 60, but could we do this at 80?

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