Retirement towns

[wildcatter]

Surrey. Your stuff will slowly get ripped off making the estate easier to manage for your kids......

Haha, I like that one!

[wildcatter]

Think carefully about medical services when choosing a retirement location. Inevitably, as we age, we need more and more access to hospitals and good specialists.
Having to travel to Kelowna from Nelson for heart issues, as happened to a friend of mine, sucks big time.

Well you know I never thought much about that, as I been always healthy, till I found out I have cancer.
I am now stuck in the city, even though I'm building my retirement place in the Cariboo.

[dapesche]

Nelson and some of the smaller towns in the west kootenays are nice.

Nelson is amazing but not a place you want to retire to when yiu have many nice options in the area.

Like 325 note, it's expensive and that'll eat into the pension. Castlegar, trail or grandforks would be cheaper options.

[Island Idiots]

Healthcare can be an issue. I know first hand. Living in Castlegar with heart issues means you might be doing the 4 hour ambulance ride to Kelowna in a blizzard, or the helo if they can fly and you need it bad enough. It doesn't bother me, I still love this place, surrounded by good hunting and fishing and boating and atving.
Kelowna has a great hospital and the one in Trail is expanding. A fair amount of new houses being built as folks sell homes in Kelowna and pay cash for a new place in the Gar. Banking a buttload of cash doing so.
If your seeking peace and quite and small town atmosphere, you have to make sacrifices. We don't have Cosco, but we don't have a lot of other stuff no one wants either.

[338win mag]

That's what I was thinking.
They are self sufficient.
They don't need government services.
This is what I like.
Land away from the flock. Don't care about what the location provides in terms of "comfort and services".

They keep their nose clean, don't look for government handouts and probably have some exemptions so government leaves them alone.
They don't have comfort and service and yet they keep going just fine.
Other than their "religiosity", I have respect for these groups.

You dont need to be part religious or ethnic group to be any of the above.

[weatherbyjunkie]

I have some family that just moved to a rural property just south of Barriere earlier this year and they seem to like it a lot. Cheap place to live, close to Kamloops, no bugs, decent weather not too wet, not too dry...

Out of most areas I would second Barriere. Close to Kamloops,which means things you need as you age. Still affordable. Also consider how close you will be to family or friends who would be helping younif needed-how close are they or will they be. My friends parents moved to Vancouver Island,as their father started having medical issues they found it very hard to juggle young kids and going to see him and assist him and their mother with medical needs and household stuff.

[REMINGTON JIM]

With the recent canfor mill closure, this might be a practical place. Has a hospital, but a shortage of doctors although Kamloops is not too far away. Close to some real good fishing at Bridge and Sheridan Lakes. Wells Grey Park out the back door. Not too far to the head end of Adams Lake. Probably has the best potential for those entering into retirement now.

SADLEY ! Gonna be some Cheap Real Estate there and around 100 Mile House Soon ! RJ

[Moose63]

Parksville/Qualicum would be my pick

[IslandWanderer]

Port Alberni would be good. Inexpensive homes and good access to hunting and fishing.

Maybe a bit too working class for some folks though.

[IslandWanderer]

Parksville/Qualicum would be my pick

Yes, mine too. No question.