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They are vicarious travelers, not real ones. They don't really want to travel but just think about it, and read about it, and talk about it.
Or we might mention two friends who publish a small magazine in Florida called the Florida Opportunity Bulletin. It is full of information about retiring to Florida, or setting up a small business in Florida, or finding employment in Florida. They distribute by advertising in national publications and in newspapers in the northern cities. They have literally tens of thousands of subscribers. Most of these subscribers they find are vicarious dreamers who will never take the step. They would love to leave the coldness and drabness of their northern homes but for whatever reason don't. Each month they get their copy of the Bulletin and moon over it, and discuss the various Floridian cities and towns, discuss the various jobs, the business opportunities—but they never actually pull up roots and go.
All of which is a rather lengthy build-up to what I'm driving at.
This book is not meant for the vicariously inclined. There is no way that I can prevent a reader from planking down his money, taking this volume back to the safety of his room and dreaming about getting out of the rat-race and living a real life, but never getting around to doing it. We can't prevent this but we can insist that this book is not meant for such readers.
It is meant for people who truly want to get off the treadmill and retire in comfort and to enjoy a better way of life than is lived by the overwhelming majority of Americans today. We are determined to do it, if at all possible, and it is possible and this book will prove it.
The question becomes WHEN?
And the answer is NOW!
It is either now or never. If you put it off today, you will find even more reason to put it off tomorrow and a double amount of reason to put it off next month. Until finally you will find it is next year, and five years and ten and you'll look up someday and find that life has passed you by. That you've spent it dreaming about a better way of life but never quite had the courage to reach out and take it, although it was always there to take. You'll find youth gone, and many of the best things in life never realized. You will have
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