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Your First Job in Retirement: It Has Nothing to Do With Money
Most people spend decades planning how to retire financially. Surprisingly few spend even an afternoon planning what they'll actually do once they get there. That's a mistake. Your first job in retirement isn't managing your investments—that's important, but not job #1. What's Your Most Important Job in Retirement? So just what is Job #1? The answer is a lot simpler…...
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Saratoga Springs, also known as Saratoga, is one of the more interesting towns in New York, if not the country. For one thing, it is best known for the Saratoga Race Course which opened on August 3, 1863. This thoroughbred track is the oldest continuously-operating sporting event of any kind in the United States. Many race regulars come here to…...
Bluffton is a small town with a population of about 13,000 (but 37,000 in the area), on the coast of South Carolina just off of Hilton Head Island and near the Georgia border. Home to many retirement communities (see link at top right), the town is located on a bluff overlooking the May River in an area long known for…...
A former farming village on the Coginchaug River, Durham is a small town of less than 10,000. The lovely town center is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The west side is flanked by Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous traprock ridgeline. Picture of View from Pistapaug Mountain courtesy of Wikipedia and 5ju989nfhs50,Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0/...
Martha's Vineyard is a large and affluent island about 7 miles off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The year round population is about 16,000 but during the summer months it swells over 100,000. Several U.S. Presidents have spent their summer vacations here, notably Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. According to this quote from Wikipedia, Martha's Vineyard is made…...