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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
Located in Southwest Florida, just northeast of Fort Myers, Babcock Ranch is America's first solar-powered town and has been thoughtfully designed with a 870-acre solar farm implementing renewable energy as a part of everyday life. The new development is comprised of 18,000 acres, and boasts several neighborhoods, a wilderness preserve, hiking and biking paths, greenways and lakes. The entire town…...
Eugene, population 158,000, has many attractions as a place to retire. For one, it is a vibrant college town; 17,000 students attend the University of Oregon here. It has the Cascade Mountain range for unlimited hiking, skiing and outdoor opportunities. The wild and rugged Pacific coast is just an hour to the west. The city, birthplace of Nike, is famous…...
With the nickname "Blue Hole" one might not know what to expect about Sequim, Washington. Pronounced (skwim), this growing town of about 6,600 (with 20,000 more in the area) gets its name because pilots kept noticing that there was almost always blue skies over the area - it is in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains. At about 14"…...
Sebastian is one of the fastest growing areas in Florida. The town on the east (Atlantic) coast is just north of Vero Beach and is considered warm in winter. It is on the shores of Indian River Lagoon on Florida’s Treasure Coast. People in retirement make up one of the most important demographic groups in Sebastian which has an estimated…...
