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New York State Gets Big Win Against Snowbirds Changing Residency
January 11, 2025 -- So you decided to move from a high tax state like New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, or Massachusetts. You followed all the right steps, getting a driver's license in your new state, registering to vote there, and spending less than half the year in your old state. Problem solved? Not necessarily. A recent New York court…...
Top Retirement Towns
Athens is an immensely successful (population just over 100,000) university town in the hills of northeastern Georgia. It is extremely popular as a retirement community. The University of Georgia has helped to create an unusually liberal community with a thriving artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual scene. The University of Georgia with its 38,000 students has a large and beneficial impact…...
Florence, Oregon, is located on the Oregon coast at the mouth of the Siuslaw River, and is midway between Coos Bay and Newport. The population in 2012 was 8,484 with about one-third of that number retirees. The average age of the community is 57 years-old, which is 10 years older than the state's average age of 47 years. Florence was…...
Carlsbad is located in Southeastern New Mexico, straddling the Pecos River on the edge of the Guadalupe Mountains. The town, which is the county seat of Eddy County, has a population of 26,138 (2013 census), and was named after the European spa Karlsbad, because of mineral springs located north of the city that were believed to have medicinal value. It…...
Augusta, Georgia, the "Garden City," is a city of contrasts. On one hand it is home to the oldest autonomous African-American Baptist church in the country. Its new motto is “We feel good” in honor of native son James Brown. And yet it is home to the most prestigious golf tournament in the world – The Masters. Augusta (population 181,000)…...
