Beach retirement
This is my last night in Australia.For me, Australia is not a tourist destination, rather, it is a place to do my family routines and personal businesses. Therefore every visit tends to be busy and not very relaxing.Anyway, people around my age cannot relax much, because we have little children, we have full time works, we have properties and home loans, many paperworks and complications etc. etc... I have to accept that it is my life.However, when I get to the retire age, I hope I will have less things to do so it is a time to relax!!! And I think... Australian beaches are excellent place to retire.I talked to my wife, the idea of buying a retirement flat in Sydney's beach suburbs. Buy a small size flat just good for two person (as it is easy to take care), within a short stroll to beaches, cafes and small shops. When we are in working ages, we will let the beach flat rented out, spend our time in Tokyo or London or New York or Singapore or whatever high-paying cities (hope Sydney is one of those). When we decide to retire and our children became adults, we will be moving into the small beach flat and relax.The price of a beach flat is not cheap so I focus on paying it off before retirement. Plus, I would like to retain at least a couple of apartments in Japan, to help generating cash flow in Yen.I briefly looked at flat prices around Bondi, Bronte, Coogee area. Some of those are affordable (probably thanks to world economy crash last year). Let me get one and have a nice dream of after retirement :-)