Hi, I'm Don. I live in the fastest growing city in the USA, Port St. Lucie, FL (seriously; officially declared by the US census). It's a nice place to live; it has also been named the safest large city in Florida for at least 6 straight years. I've been there 33 years, which is virtually a pioneer; my name is in the history book (seriously).
But, it is the fastest growing city in the USA, so about 3 years ago, Betsy and I bought 5 acres in rural Okeechobee, FL, about 50 miles inland, at the north end of Lake Okeechobee, the second largest freshwater lake completely within the USA borders. My daughter is the band director at Okeechobee High School, so she and her husband bought 2-1/2 acres in Okeechobee about 9 years ago. Our property is next to theirs, which is nice, because it puts us close to our 3 grandkids, 2 girls and a boy, 5, 3 and 10 months. My son-in-law is a county fireman/EMT and just finished paramedic school; he's just waiting for the state exam schedule before he gets the "big raise". He's a pretty decent kid as sons-in-law go; we work pretty well together, and he has borrowed, lost or broken only a few of my tools. Fortunately, he takes pretty good care of my TC18.
All we're waiting for to build our retirement house is a set of working drawings; so far I've burned through 2 designers and an architect with no progress; the latest kid looks promising. In the meantime, I'm moving dirt. About 4,000 yards, so far, with 4 big mountains of dirt yet to go. Some of it was moved with decent equipment, but currently I'm moving it 1/3 yard at a time with the TC18. I am having fun; it's a kind of mindless activity that becomes automatic after a couple of thousand bucket-fuls.
We just sold our North Carolina mountain cabin and are going to invest some of the proceeds in a new RV, based on the Mercedes-designed Sprinter van, most likely a RoadTrek. We've been sort of tied up for the past 6 years because we also care for my wife's Mother, who just turned 101 years old in August. However, we have a full-time caretaker, now, who will also stay 24 hours a day from time to time so we can get away.
I'm retired from owning a barbecue grill company, prior to which I was a free-lance computer programmer & consultant, prior to which I was a real estate broker, prior to which I owned a small fiberglass boat-building company, prior to which I was a cost accountant for a land developer, prior to which I was a state director of public education for the American Cancer Society. I've had a checkered past...Betsy is a physical therapist specializing in home health therapy visits under contract to the Visiting Nurse Association, loves it and will probably never fully retire. We're both 65.
Whew! I'm getting better at that. It used to take me 10 paragraphs.