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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
The City of Palm Coast is an enormous planned community of approximately 90,000 residents (2020), located on Florida’s northeast coast, equidistant from the large cities of Jacksonville and Orlando. Many of its residents are active adults using it as a retirement community. Palm Coast is one of the more interesting hybrid communities in existence. Planned originally by ITT as a…...
Occoquan is a small village adjacent to Woodbridge in suburban Virginia. The affluent population of this artist community is about 900 people. The town has charming streets laid out in a grid on the Occoquan River (see photo above of marina). People like it for its walkable streets, charming shops, and restaurants. It is convenient to I-95 and the Potomac…...
San Buenaventura is a village near the southern (Pacific) coast of the beautiful and unspoiled country of Costa Rica (San Isidro del General region). This area is near the beach, Ballena National Park, and not far from the regional airport. For more about retiring to this beautiful country see our retirement guide to Costa Rica....
Port Charlotte is a suburban community to the northeast of busy Fort Myers, Florida. Located in southern Florida, Port Charlotte attracts many retirees who come for its warm winters - the average age is quite high at 49. Port Charlotte is an unincorporated town governed by Charlotte County. When you think of a retirement community on Florida's west coast Port…...