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An Appealing Choice: A 55+ Neighborhood Within a Larger All Ages Community

November 19, 2025 -- The most interesting retirement concept of the last 65 years has been, hands down, the success of active adult communities. Sometimes called permanent summer camps for adults, offshoots of the concept pioneered by Sun City in 1960 offer every kind of amenity from golf to swimming pools to pickleball. Plus clubs and non-stop activities of every…...

Top Retirement Towns

Leonardtown is a very small town located in a pastoral section of Maryland between the mouth of the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay at the southern end of a large peninsula. This area has been slow to be developed because of its distance from any city and the bridges that had to be crossed to get here. On the way…...
 
Let's start by saying Lake Mary Florida is #4 on Money Magazine's Best Places to Live 2007 list. That list is aimed at a general, not a retirement, audience, but the basic appeal is here for all groups. Lake Mary, population 13,000, is particularly suited to people who want to retire to a place where family life and exposure to…...
 
 
East Brunswick is a suburban town of about 46,000 in northern New Jersey that straddles the NJ Turnpike and sits on the south shore of the Raritan River. It is considered a suburb of New York City, about 30 miles away, and Philadelphia is just 60 miles south of East Brunswick. Photo of Lawrence Brook (Westons Mill Pond section) courtesy…...
 
Grand Junction, Colorado comes up near the top of many people's "best places to retire". For one thing, this fast-growing town perched on the border with Utah has a relatively low cost of living. It is also a college town (Colorado Mesa University has over 10,000 students on campus here). Natural beauty and recreation is abundant with the Rocky Mountains…...
 
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