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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…...
Top Retirement Towns
Orangeburg, population 13,000, was chosen an All-American city in 2005. Located in central South Carolina this small town has several colleges (including top-rated Claflin University and South Carolina State University - both predominately black schools). It is known as the Garden City and has a lovely downtown. Orangeburg has an active and very successful redevelopment program. Photo of St. Paul…...
Situated on the southeastern Texas Gulf Coast, Rockport is a low-key tourist and retirement destination protected by barrier islands. Clean beaches offer great fishing and the surrounding areas offer plenty of birding opportunities. It's a relatively small community of about 10,000 that has been growing steadily - about 33% in the past decade. Fifty percent of the population is forty…...
Flagler Beach is a small town on Florida's north Atlantic coast, just above Daytona Beach and below Palm Coast. The town is named for the former partner of John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil, who went on to become a famous hotelier and railroad builder in Florida. The population has declined somewhat to just under 4,500. The peaceful 6 mile…...
Redding is an extremely affluent suburban community of about 9,000 people in eastern Connecticut. The median Household income is over $154,000 and unemployment is about 6%. The town is situated in a beautiful part of the state Mark Twain lived here late in life and gave many of his books to the town - today it is home to the…...
