Ah crap...

[JimCoronette]

If you can transfer and keep your present pay, DO IT!

I was booted at 28 years of service at the age of 47.
For 9 years I haven't been able to find a job even close to the pay I was making.

Work as long as you wish, but it feels much better, psychologically, to leave when You want to.

 

[bearman]

This is what we did with both financial planners, but obviously we should run the new criteria to see if 2 years early will make much of a difference.

Health benefits are DoD

keep going 2 years you will do on your head easy. also moving out of ny is always a good idea.

 

[Hey-O]

As stated, check the bottom line if you go now. I retired at 52 and never looked back!! I have no payments and owe no one. That's very important. I loved my job to, but life is short and getting shorter. Good luck Matt!!

 

[44070dart]

Agree with ^ Blacker, may depend on where you will be transferring to. If it's somewhere you would like to live during your retirement, then why not. I was unlucky/lucky and retired at 51 due to a workplace accident. Screwed up shoulder, but it's been 18 years of 6 Saturdays and a Sunday and I ^highly^ recommend retirement if financially possible, and I liked my job.. I also live in WNY and will be leaving in next year or so (God willing) to follow my grand kids. If your wife is on board.......see ya.

 

[GetX'd]

Sounds like you have the money to bail. Also sounds like you love your job and want to move anyway. I’d see where the job was - take it and explore a little. If you were going to stay in NY I’d bag it. Since you’re going to move anyway why not do so a little early and make some extra bread while seeing a different area of the country. I bailed at 57 because I couldn’t take the stress any longer and I had the means. No regrets

 

[wahya]

I can tell you one thing. The 13 years since my retirement seemed to go a lot faster than the previous 13. I think the clocks are moving faster or something.