There are countless things you can enjoy in Santa Clarita Valley during your retirement. It offers many happy adventures. There is something for everyone to do here — whether it’s pursuing a hobby, mastering a skill, or enjoying the great outdoors.
If you decide to retire in Santa Clarita, here are some wonderful things you can do in this beautiful city just north of Los Angeles.
Get to Know Your Neighbors
Whether you’ve spent years here or you’re a new resident preparing your new home in Santa Clarita for retirement, one thing you may not have done is get to know your neighbors well. If you’ve lived in Santa Clarita for many years, you may simply have been too busy with your working life to get to know the people in your neighborhood, and if you’re a new resident, then you just haven’t had a chance to hang out with some of the friendliest people in Southern California.
Since social distancing is necessary to avoid the spread of the pandemic, knocking on your neighbor’s doors and inviting them over for dinner may not be a great idea right now. Even if you’ve been vaccinated, other people may still feel nervous about the idea of social mingling. Still, a new app called NextDoor makes it easy to get to form virtual relationships with your neighbors.
You’ll be impressed with the versatility of the app. You can use it to introduce yourself and chat with people who live in your neighborhood. The forums are warm and friendly places, and the designers have even added safety and security features that instantly flag inappropriate posting, such as NextDoor racial profiling. You can use the app to make new friends. You can use it to buy or sell things. You can use it to inform people about local events in your neighborhood or the city.
Design Retirement to Suit Your Interests
If you love active life, then see retirement as an opportunity to pursue other ventures. Perhaps it’s a chance to start your own business or volunteer for something that you always wanted to do but never had the time for.
If you relish the idea of having the whole day to yourself to do as you please, then you can view retirement as a chance to slow down and do something other than spend all day at work. Perhaps it’s a chance to deepen your spiritual practices or become a writer.
People have mixed feelings about retirement. Some people don’t look forward to the idea of quitting their job and staying at home. They love their work, enjoy the time they spend with their colleagues and customers at work, and find meaning and fulfillment in living an active life. Other people just can’t wait to retire. The idea of staying home every day, not fighting traffic to get to an office, store, or factory where they don’t want to go in the first place is a huge relief. When the option to retire comes up, they throw a retirement party to celebrate and might even go on a post-retirement road trip.
Whether you are or are not looking forward to it depends on how you think about it. Define it to suit your interests. See it as a new phase in your life rather than simply being forced to disengage from the world and trying to find something interesting to do with all the time you now have on your hands.
Final Thoughts
Besides redefining retirement either as a chance to continue to work on something that excites you or as an opportunity to choose a whole new way of life, where you retire makes a big difference. If you live in Santa Clarita, you’ve already found the perfect place to retire. If you don’t live in Santa Clarita, you might want to visit for a few days to figure out why so many people love to call it home.
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