When you retire from your life-long profession you will find that your life will change in many positive ways.
Here are some of the great things about being retired. When you no longer have the routine of work you can: decide where you want to live and change your surroundings in other ways too:
Do you want to stay in exactly the same neighbourhood as you have lived in for years or do you want to downsize or upsize even.
It’s common to want to live somewhere smaller after retirement in order to save money on expenses. On the other hand having somewhere bigger might be your choice in order for friends and family to have a place to stay when they visit you if they live too far to come over for a few hours only. Maybe you would prefer to be near the sea, or in the countryside, or near to a bus route, or not far from the shops.
Retirement is a time when people tend to re-assess their home environment and decide what would suit them better and what sort of choices they now have.
You may feel you are not so stuck geographically as you were when you had to be near to your workplace so thinking about retirement might include considering places to move to which would not have been practical before.
Life is always about getting a balance between what you want, what your partner and family want, and what you will be able to cope with as you get older. Hence consideration about buses and train stations in case driving is not something you wish to continue in the long term.
You might consider moving to a different part of the same country or even moving to another country especially if you have close friends or family living overseas.
If you decide to stay living in the same place as before you can change your surroundings in other ways by re-arranging furniture; having a good clutter clear-out by getting rid of a lot of things you no longer want or need any more; changing the colour of the walls or flooring; buying a different style of furniture; and making your surroundings look different. it is an excellent way to mark your transition from a work to retirement, since you are entering a different and new stage of your life, you will be indicting to your sub-conscious mind that from now on not only your day to day routine will be different but so will you too.
