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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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Needham is a well-off suburban town of 29,000 near Boston. It is home to the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, an engineering school. A nearby town is Wellesley. Photo of Cutler Park, a state-owned nature preserve and public recreation courtesy of Wikipedia and Zenswashbuckler (public domain)....
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…...
Healdsburg is a town of about 11,000 in the Sonoma County, not far north of Santa Rosa. Tourists come here for the food and wine as well as to bicycle through the hills and vineyards. three of the most important wine-producing regions (the Russian River, Dry Creek, and Alexander Valley) meet in Healdsburg. The town is centered on a 19th…...
Lenox is a small, seasonal town in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts. The official population is about 5,000 but it swells to many times that in the summer. Over the years many famous wealthy people made this their summer home; it also became known for its many cultural activities. The biggest thing going on here is Tanglewood, the summer…...