Over the past twenty years the future climate has often been characterised as dangerous, affecting people’s willingness to envision, discuss, and plan for the future. Despite this, a few concerned people are constructing and sharing future oriented narratives. They use these stories to support personal planning and discussions with friends and family who aim to adapt to climate change. Impacts from climate change are frequently characterised as something that will happen at a distant time and, especially in relatively wealthy and politically stable countries, in a distant place. Recently however, discourse regarding climate change impacts has become more immediate and personal, as reflected in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report showing that near-term climate change will influence our environment over the next twenty years. A need therefor arises to better understand how climate change is reflected in expectations of the future. Accordingly, this study asked people interested in adaptation how they think their personal lives will be affected by climate change up to 2035. Using interpretive and reflexive analysis of interviews, narratives emerged that indicate diverse expectations of both the extent and immediacy of climate change impacts. These narratives will be discussed in light of Futures Typologies that have emerged from the analysis. A better understanding of these developing narratives can provide opportunities to support pro-active and positive discourse in community climate change adaptation and to better deliver climate information.