Yes, and that high economy is one reason people and business are leaving, they ain’t getting there moneys worth anymore…
I am stopping there due to getting too political… 
The ability for many people to work at home is another reason. Why live in CA when I can buy a house in NC or GA for 1/3rd the price. I’ve stated this before in this forum…a guy who worked for me left CA (Silicon Valley) and moved to MA (one of the highest priced home markets in the country) and took $100/yr cut in pay so he could afford to buy a home.
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I worked with someone on a project where the main work was in Gilbert, AZ. My counterpart lived in Florida and did most of the work at home. He moved during the project to Tennessee, north of Huntsville, Alabama. When he needed corporate services he went to his company’s offices in Huntsville and still occasionally put in an appearance at the factory in Gilbert.
For the most part we work at home. But I have to be in the office 2-4 days a month. But that all ends at the end of this month. I’m FINALLY retiring.
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Welcome to Slacker Nation, @MikeInNH 
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Good for you. Retired is the best job title I ever had .
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Oh, I’m sure the wife will have a LARGE honey-do list for me.
@MikeInNH, I am not picking on you but your recent posting gives an opportunity to remind all that are just retired, are soon retiring, or dream of the day when they can retire…
When that day comes, the retiree needs to remember that the spouse that stayed at home, whose job it was to maintain the home is not retiring… Everything they did, the housework, the yard work, the grocery shopping, the meal planning, the cooking, the cleaning, the laundry, etc still needs doing and perhaps even more so that there is one more body hanging around the house all day “enjoying their retirement…” messing the place up…
I retired almost 25-years ago and I picked up many of those day-time chores that were done while I was at work… Also, I volunteered at my local Veterans Administration Hospital for a couple of years. Then I volunteered at two of my local libraries and my local senior center and taught computer classes until the pandemic hit. Then I started taking more college classes, auditing the fun classes, and enrolling for real to get the credit for another degree…
Mike, I hope you find retirement in all the wonderful ways you and your family have worked for and make every moment count and make lots of memories…
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This is not 1950 .
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What an astute observation… But many of the retirees that have fallen into this trend (I’m retired now…) were born in 1950 and there about…
My wife is still working - full time job as a marketing manager for a large IT company. And all those tasks have been shared by both of us for decades since we both had careers. Wife could have retired 6 years ago. But now she’s waiting for some of the stock options to mature. She works at home, sets her own schedule, has a good group of people that work for her. If things change then she may just retire and forget about the options.
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My wife was also a career person. Maybe Lord Thunder needs to look around more and he might just find out that he does not know everything about everything.
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… also he might consider that it isn’t necessary for him to post all of his lengthy comments in bold font.
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We have a lot of two-family incomes here in New England. Cost of living is one of the highest in the country. And unfortunately, we have 2 family income’s that are homeless because they can’t afford rent (averaging over $2,000/mo).
This could get political very quickly.
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I’m a little late to this party, but I don’t see any indication that the sign is a fake? The second article has the date the sign was put up and the reason for 6 different restriction times. The bit in the first article about the township not putting up the sign could be because the county did, depending on which is responsible for that road.
Believe what you want, but I Googled the White Lake Township, Michigan schools as noted along Bogie Lake Road, and here is a screen shot of the signs from Street View today…
Pretty sure stickerj is talking about the sign in reply #25.
That is what I thought also. When I saw the original photo in post #26, I performed a Google Video/Photo search and found the original posting of that photo and I referenced the Newspaper and Newscast that covered the sign in my post #35.
I believe that the sign as well made and authentic looking as the sign is could be real.
I cannot believe that any municipality would expect the drivers to be so aware of the time that they would slow down at the stroke of 6:49, 7:52, 8:37, etc…
After @strickerj posted, I googled the town and the school locations out of curiosity to see what signs they are using today and that was my posting of the sign in #57.
The article says the sign was put up in January of 2012, and the next Google street view of that location is in 2017 though.
And yes, the articles you found are of the one in reply 25. We actually used to live in that area, but we didn’t drive that particular section of road, so I can’t verify it from experience. I’m not saying it’s definitely true, just that it isn’t definitively false.