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How To Retire Without Money
By Bob Belmont
CHAPTER 2 WHERE TO RETIRE
Page 1 of 6
THIS book is going to show you how you can attain the good
life. It's going to give scores of examples of others,
including this writer, who have done it. I don't care what
your educational background is or how much money you have in
the bank, or if you have any at all. I don't care how old you
are, or whether or not you have any skills. This thing can be
done. You can retire from the rat-race, and I'm going to prove
it.
If you have some savings to help out, fine. If you have a
pension, no matter how small, wonderful. If you have a skill,
swell. If you're a teacher, very well indeed; if you're an
artist, or would like to be, or a writer, or would like to be,
excellent. If you have any kind of industrial know-how, or
construction skill, or if you're handy with tools, great.
Any of these things will help—but none of them are necessary.
And all of this I'm going to prove. I'm going to take you by
hand, and step by step, show you how to do it.
Meanwhile, however, I want to set some background. Otherwise
much of what I've already said in the last chapter and much of
what I will say after this one, will seem nonsense. So bear
with me while I cover this subject of WHERE.
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Let's face it. More than four out of every five people living
in our country live in unfortunately grim surroundings.
The world is literally full of wonderful, desirable places hi
which to reside. But rather than seek them out the
overwhelming majority of us live in such traps of humanity as
New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore,
Cleveland, St. Louis, Washington, Boston, Pittsburgh,
Milwaukee or Houston. And I've not even mentioned such real
holes as Gary, East St. Louis, the coal towns of West
Virginia, the textile towns of New England.
And even in our more attractive cities such as Los Angeles,
San Francisco, New Orleans and Miami, the majority of the
citizenry live in such poor neighborhoods, in such comparative
squalor, that the basic attractiveness of the town is lost to
them.
It is true enough that even New York or Chicago can be
attractive and have their desirable attributes if you have the
income of a millionaire but for the average reader of this
book such cities mean drab living, too much heat in the
summer, too much cold in the winter and sickening carbon
monoxide fumes all year round. They also mean high cost of
living, even though the living is poor indeed.
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