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In reply to the discussion: The media is targeting US birthright citizenship [View all]DFW
(57,085 posts)Otherwise known as "Schwyzerdüütsch." I'm OK with Basel or Zürich dialects. Get out in the hinterlands like Bern or Interlaken, and it gets harder for me. Get out to Chur, Appenzell or Uri, and I start to cry for help, too. Even my colleague from Geneva threw in the towel long ago. He's OK with English or Italian, but Schwyzerdüütch might as well be Uzbek to him.
I have only one retirement setup. I have the Roth IRA and a 401k which I can't access until I stop working. If I stop working, I figure I'm dead within a year, and won't be able to enjoy much of anything I take out of that 401k anyhow. That's relatively small to begin with. It's different if you have two million dollars in there. I don't, unfortunately. Other than the Roth IRA and the 401k, I have a jumble of some stock, some gold coins, and a savings account back in Dallas. I also have tiny sliver of my company which is frozen colder than Greenland's last surviving glaciers until the company is sold, which I probably won't live to see. If I do, then I can afford--what? No mansions in Beverly Hills, no private planes, so, what, then? I'd probably invest in a private recording studio and make music, or something. Maybe commute to Atlanta and play on more sessions with The Freedom Toast? I briefly fantasized about a house on Cape Cod. My sensible wife stopped that one cold. "A house we won't see for eleven months out of the year, but have to pay taxes on 12 months out of the year, pay for upkeep and renovation, and might fall into the ocean if the winter storms get too violent. Are you out of your mind?" Well, I may well be that, but I have been cured of looking to buy a house on Cape Cod. We'll just keep on keepin' on. It's worked out for us so far, anyway.
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