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Best Sports for Longevity?
January 15, 2025 -- Want to live longer - we sure do, assuming we have some degree of functioning. This interesting article from the NY Times shows results of multiple studies on longevity and various activities. Those include walking, biking, tennis, and golf. Guess which one seems to give the highest boost to living a long life? It's tennis. One…...
Top Retirement Towns
Washington, D.C., the Nation's Capital, is a tremendous place for people who want to retire in an urban lifestyle. It is expensive, but there are many beautiful neighborhoods and always something to see or do. Particularly for people who have spent their careers here, the idea of retiring to Washington is very appealing....
Independence, Missouri is justly famous for a number of reasons. For one, this growing town of over 120,000 people was the starting point in frontier days for the Oregon, Santa Fe, and California trails. The National Frontier Trails Museum commemorates that history. Harry Truman, one of America's most popular Presidents, hailed from here and indeed lived here in the home…...
Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is estimated that over 200,000 UK citizens have retired in South Africa, drawn for the climate, scenery, proximity to game parks, and outdoor recreation. Cape Town and Johannesburg draw more retirees than Durban. After Johannesburg it is the second most important manufacturing hub in South Africa. Durban…...
Active adults over 50 looking for a new community where the outdoors is important should consider Bend, Oregon. Located on the Deschutes River on the eastern edge of the Cascades, the area offers great scenic beauty, skiing, mountains, golf, fishing, and more. Word about how nice this city is has gotten out: the population was 99,178 in the 2020 census,…...