I know a few consultants in my office are doing this. They will work for another 5 years till they are 65, make about 1million from consulting ($200K per year for 5 years), then they will trully retire. And many of them will buy a house in the South such as Florida and will live there during the winter, then come back to Canada for the other three seasons.
I do not see this as a "loser strategy". Of course, there are some people who always think only the U.S. is the best, just like when we were in China, there are a few students in our class, who were born in Beijing, would always say that Beijing is the best, and all the other cities in China are "loser cities".