Retired at 40 story // WE'RE MOVING to Iowa

[@jakecooks9801]

How many people love retired at 40 I love your videos 👇🏽

[@live.life.simple.]

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[@nathanmiller5689]

Welcome to Iowa, you'll enjoy the community you have moved to!

[@live.life.simple.]

We are really enjoying it!

[@Holio88]

I lived in Carroll iowa I loved it! About to move back actually!!

[@live.life.simple.]

@@Holio88 It's tough to beat the humble, hard working folks here. It's nice to be around down to earth people again.

[@richardcolligon4277]

I moved all my stuff about 20 years ago to Aurora Colorado in a Honda Civic from Philadelphia. It was 1786 miles and now I'm moving to Arizona and Lake Powell. God bless and good luck!!

[@live.life.simple.]

lake powell is amazing. We went for the first time a couple of years ago and were hooked

[@birdlynn417]

Cute video, good job, guys!! Say yes, to change and adventure and new beginnings!

[@jononfirebudgetinginvestin3897]

Congrats! I'm 26 and recently decided to make a goal to retire early as well! Seeing your journey is so empowering and inspiring! Good luck with life in Iowa!

[@live.life.simple.]

Best of luck to you on your journey. Stay disciplined, ride out the storms and stay positive🔥

[@sea6bear]

Best to you and your family.... I’m sure the increasing cost of real estate in Colorado made for a nice profit as well...Great timing.

[@live.life.simple.]

It was good timing for sure. High real estate and doing all of this during COVID made for a nice bonus that we weren't expecting.

[@ballHand]

Why is real estate cost increasing in Colorado?

[@dianep4795]

Congratulations, looking forward to all your new videos.

[@live.life.simple.]

Thank you!

[@rynedoughty]

Welcome to Iowa! Proud Iowan here! Glad you’re here with us. Cheers!

[@Betis91]

Dont let the blue donkey IQ idiots ruin our state

[@EzStreetz515]

Welcome to Iowa!! I live in Des Moines if you ever need any help with anything, also heavy into gardening and the simple living!! Time to slow down and enjoy life!!

[@live.life.simple.]

Just started putting in my garden for this year!

[@EzStreetz515]

@@live.life.simple. just did the same and got our section tilled up on Sunday, now to wait for the rain to stop!!

[@unleashnow226]

Hello fellow Iowan! I am a farmer's daughter and was born & raised here. I love it here! Love your channel!

[@live.life.simple.]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@robininva]

Bless you, young man...and wife and kids! Wishing you the best!!

[@live.life.simple.]

Much appreciated!

[@kmaynor16]

Nice new digs! Thanks for showing us! Packing and moving and unpacking is a bear, but it will be behind you soon enough. Looking forward to your upcoming videos. And tell us what you plan to do with that nice pond in back. Fish? Shrimp? Ducks?

[@live.life.simple.]

Almost entirely unpacked now. It has been never ending it seems. The pond has quite a few bass and crappie. What i would like to do is use it as a way to get fresh fish consistently. Fishing pole to table 🎣

[@elizabethjohnson3095]

Just found your channel last week as I was looking for reviews for freeze drying food. What a great channel you have! I am excited to see more, LOVE the storage unit videos as well as the freeze drying videos. Congrats on the new house and land, it's beautiful! God bless.

[@live.life.simple.]

Thanks so much. I will try to keep doing some storage units but it will be a little more difficult where i am. A good reason to take a drive though! Thanks for watching!

[@jerrysmith372]

Very nice area you found there. Small pond in back and a larger lake not far away. Hope it has good fishing. I don't envy your move - I actually hate moving. So much now to move it would take a semi truck. Just as a precaution for you - since your now in tornado ally - you may want to consider a storm shelter. Iowa winters can be very harsh as well - maybe a whole home backup generator? Always better to be prepared and never need these things than to not have them when the time arrives. Good luck to you and your family. Stay safe young man.

[@live.life.simple.]

Funny you say that. Yesterday we were hit with a massive storm with 100 mph winds. I have a safe room that is concrete on all sides 10 inch concrete. Lots of fishing around and i plan to try to make a sustainable pond that will feed us. Lots of new things to learn. I love it!

[@jerrysmith372]

@@live.life.simple. Ya, I saw the news and wondered how you made out - no real damage I hope. Just remember your pond has to be deep enough to not freeze solid - or your fish won't make it.

[@live.life.simple.]

@@jerrysmith372It came out of nowhere and i am glad i was home, or i would have lost anything that wasn't bolted down. The fish survived last winter and it was excavated a few feet deeper early this year.

[@Bullfrog0302]

Good luck in your new venture I love watching and learning on your videos 😊

[@jerrysmith372]

@@Bullfrog0302 Yes - I too like his videos. He puts so much work into it and always has great content. Do you have your own freeze dryer? I've been using my large dryer and oil less pump for almost 2 years now - love it. I run it almost 24/7 and have done many different foods. I like Brian because he will even show his fails - so I can learn what not to do too. Stay safe young lady.

[@IowaKim]

Welcome back to Iowa. I moved here 40 years ago & haven't looked back.

[@jimsimpson8169]

Thanks for the inspiration. Retiring next year. Moving from Florida back to Des Moines to be with my daughter and son and grandkids.

[@live.life.simple.]

Brian your winter coat😁

[@bellyacres3jillyandkerry281]

Just found this, I moved back home to Iowa in 2007...I love it here!

[@Ldybugsrus-Nadine]

Woo hoo! Congratulations. I'm excited for you and looking forward to all the new videos and experiences you will have. Nice lake, don't be mosquito food. LOL

[@live.life.simple.]

Thank you! Will do!

[@SarahMBreaux]

I moved to Clinton Iowa 2.5 years ago... I love living on the river and that Iowa has 4 seasons!!

[@quincekreb6798]

We moved to Iowa almost 2 years ago, since I grew up here, it's slower paced and more economical on disability income.

[@sandianaya5141]

Hope we see more of Iowa

[@hwe68]

This is my dream , I live in the UK at the moment. Going to make it one day.

[@rondadavis9789]

Welcome to Iowa! I'm in the part of the southeastern part of the state. This is my first time seeing your channel. I look forward to learning lots of new things.

[@live.life.simple.]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@aurorahornbuckle3479]

Have fun, and God Bless, Beautiful house indeed.

[@live.life.simple.]

Thank you!

[@ForeverKeller]

Congratulations on your successful move! Your home is beautiful. My father is from Iowa, wonderful state.

[@live.life.simple.]

Thank you so much!

[@lostman65]

i don't know man... i love colorado. i've been here 25 years. i've been to iowa many times, it's a very nice place. good luck and have fun!

[@live.life.simple.]

I have done just about everything CO has to offer in the 18 years that i was there. The thing it does not have to offer is my kids grandparents. I can travel anywhere i want when retired. 😃 Iowa is quiet, way less populated, less expensive and has good schools. My priorities have certainly changed as i have gotten older.

[@WhiTiger]

Welcome to Iowa!! Hope the storm on the 10th missed you.

[@live.life.simple.]

We survived! You?

[@WhiTiger]

@@live.life.simple. so glad to hear that! We were winged. Just some dead branches down from our old oak but nothing major. Our neighbors lost a couple of trees . South of us was hit really hard. We still have friends without power.

[@live.life.simple.]

@@WhiTiger wow! Still no power?

[@WhiTiger]

@@live.life.simple. yeah, some of our friends south of us. It's a real mess. About 43% of Iowa's corn crop was destroyed. Damage can be seen from space.

[@joannoleary]

Welcome back to Iowa. I am a native Nebraska girl, but love living in Iowa now.

[@live.life.simple.]

👍🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽

[@chadbrown1886]

From a fellow lifelong Iowa resident welcome home

[@live.life.simple.]

Thanks. It's been awhile, and it's good to be home!

[@Homestead17]

Well ya did it buddy and back to my motherland as well. Navy took me out of there and we retired on Whidbey but we've discuss that before. I knew you were on I80 and right where you were at as I had been thru there quite a few times. Congrats man and God bless boys gonna love that pond. Get some Crappie stocked in there..LOL

[@live.life.simple.]

I need to toughen them up a bit. They already love to fish, and they will get plenty of that in the coming years. They have been city kids a little too long.

[@sickofthebs93]

Cedar Rapids here, welcome!

[@Ntroendle88]

Welcome Back to Iowa guys.

[@live.life.simple.]

Good to be home!

[@bennyproof6027]

Welcome to iowa yall! im assuming by the roads yall are up northern iowa? Im down in southeast iowa but either way best of wishes man

[@lloydwagoner5511]

Good luck!! More freeze right, great news

[@live.life.simple.]

👍

[@joebolling]

Welcome back to Iowa!

[@live.life.simple.]

the motherland!

[@drydreams8513]

Hopefully you live next to Cory Taylor that would be sic

[@GAMarine137]

Congrats

[@live.life.simple.]

Appreciate that!

[@doratheexplorerbegins]

Iowa is our home state. Great state to live in.

[@live.life.simple.]

We have been back for a few months now and it has been a nice change. Buckling down⛄🌨❄ for winter though

[@doratheexplorerbegins]

@@live.life.simple. we grew up in Iowa. It’s nice to come back to snow for a visit. Lol. Enjoy!

[@roniniowa1661]

Welcome to Iowa. I’m in Eastern Iowa. If I can help with anything just holler!

[@live.life.simple.]

Appreciate it Ron!

[@live.life.simple.]

Where in eastern Iowa?

[@expandfreedom2283]

Welcome to Iowa friend!

[@live.life.simple.]

🌽thanks🌽

[@susananderson1071]

I'm thinking youll miss Colorado. The mountains, people, activities...

[@live.life.simple.]

Mountains filled with activities and filled with so many people you cannot do the activities

[@iowa_lot_to_travel9471]

@@live.life.simple. facts 100 percent

[@gtohavoc7257]

Good for you Colorado sucks! I moved from there to Kansas, I love it! Country living.

[@live.life.simple.]

Colorado has been good to my family, but it time to move on

[@jameshattermann1372]

If you would have back the truck in you could have saved 30 steps with every box or load carried.

[@lineman10able]

What part of the state do you live in?

[@wwlt.trevor0512]

I wanted to retire there until I discovered Iowa has one of the highest rates of cancer in the country due to pesticide use.

[@travist2176]

I got that all your rentals are already in Iowa. You must have double your real estate moving from Denver to Iowa

[@live.life.simple.]

it's almost 2 for one!

[@careyjohnson1784]

When you said gas is cheap during your video how much is it per gallon here in Atlanta $2 a gallon or better

[@live.life.simple.]

It's right around $2, but was under on the way to Iowa. Back when that exact footage was shot i saw it for under $1🚐

[@iowa_lot_to_travel9471]

Storm Lake for 2 years. Loved it. Great people. Lower cost of living. Its hilarious to hear the 20 something kids talk how a 625 dollar a month 2 bedroom apartment is expensive. 🤪🤪🤪😆😆. If they only knew what we knew then

[@lynnscott8286]

Why did you move to Iowa?

[@gladegoodrich2297]

Iowa to Colorado I can see someone doing that. Colorado to Iowa just doesn't make sense.

[@iowa_lot_to_travel9471]

Priority list changes as one gets older The smaller towns make for a reminiscent picture from Norman Rockwell. Absolutely iconic. And yes I have been there. You learn the dedication and definition of hearty people and why the midwest crowd is tough mentally and physically Yes deer hunting is a thing here. And there are plenty of beautiful areas to camp in. Lake Hendick state park in Riceville Iowa is just one example

[@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824]

I live in Iowa, but vacation in Colorado. It makes perfect sense.

[@brettguercio4450]

What part of Iowa ?

[@lindamhargett9479]

How did you retire at 40 what did you do?

[@live.life.simple.]

invested heavily in real estate. saved 90% of our income by not buying useless junk. invested in rentals, paid them off and now have six figure passive income.

[@lindamhargett9479]

@@live.life.simple. wow good for you!

[@thirtythree160]

So why did you move? If the answer is in another video, then just point to the video?

[@live.life.simple.]

We have lived away from family for almost 20 years. It was time for our kids to be around grandmas and grandpas and for us to take a break from the big city.

[@barano9729]

Wow. Iowa isn’t very tax friendly for retirees under 55. Your tax bill must be through the roof.

[@livefree3864]

Why Iowa?

[@live.life.simple.]

good people, low population, community and family.

[@stormlakebobcat9058]

@@live.life.simple. 100 percent yes

[@xomthood]

But those property taxes!

[@live.life.simple.]

in colorado or iowa?

[@xomthood]

@@live.life.simple. In Iowa, they are absurdly high.

[@appallokelley3207]

I cannot wait to leave the communist republic of California and move to Iowa, I’m looking at homes next month. This was a fantastic video.

[@ckknutson]

Cornfields.

[@live.life.simple.]

very good observation

[@jakecooks9801]

First

[@live.life.simple.]

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[@jakecooks9801]

Retired at 40- Live.Life.Simple. Number 1 lol 😂

[@SuperJimmyBennett]

so title retired at 40.. so a. it must be nice and you wealthy or rich..

[@timh8349]

That was a bit naf

[@DirtySpriteDingo]

How cute a trust fund baby you are so manly bro

[@live.life.simple.]

Self made. You can watch other videos on how we did it. You should be less judgemental of people before you know the whole story....bro

[@fionmor4893]

gas is not cheap any more... thanks to that freeze dried Potato in the White House.... interest is up too like 6% right now

[@live.life.simple.]

Its not the gas I'm so worried about, its the 30% inflation on everything

[@cookingwithsquatch]

lol

[@lazy_lefty]

Yikes. You'll regret moving to Iowa. Im an Iowa native and I can tell you its a hellhole. The whole "Iowa nice" thing is just thinly veiled passive aggressiveness and racism lol.

[@sonistowe1448]

must be just you..ive been in iowa all my life..wouldnt live any where else...not sure where you are in iowa but not seeing it here where i am at..iowans are the best..js

[@joshrobinson4157]

Welcome back to Iowa!

[@live.life.simple.]

Thank you. We are enjoying the "motherland" once again 😀