Never Retire: Living The Semi-Retired Life

Never Retire: Living The Semi-Retired Life

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Is The Grass Greener On The Other Side?
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Is The Grass Greener On The Other Side?

It's a question that the doers rarely, if ever ask. Because it doesn't matter.

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Rocco Pendola
Oct 24, 2024
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When you tell people you’re moving abroad — in real life off and online — you receive all sorts of reactions.

While most of the responses are positive, encouraging and even super helpful, a significant minority — (around 35%-40%?) — are decidedly negative.

The negative Nellies tend to do one of two things —

  • Project their own fears or failures on you. They assign them to you.

  • Tell you that you think the grass is greener on the other side. That once the euphoria fades, you’ll be in for a rude awakening.

Les Longino
, who moved from Arizona to Barcelona with his husband about a year ago, summed things up nicely in an exchange we had here on Substack—

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