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Pick the Hybrid: 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…...
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Athens is an immensely successful (population just over 100,000) university town in the hills of northeastern Georgia. It is extremely popular as a retirement community. The University of Georgia has helped to create an unusually liberal community with a thriving artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual scene. The University of Georgia with its 38,000 students has a large and beneficial impact…...
Lakeland is east of Tampa, Florida. The dominant feature in Lakeland is the city's many lakes. Thirty-eight lakes are named. The population was 112,000 in 2020. Child of the Sun is the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world, and attracts 30,000 visitors each year....
A town of about 13,000 in New Haven County, Orange is a historical Connecticut town. Refer to New Haven to get an idea of the focal point of this area. Picture of The Henry F. Miller house built in 1948-49, is an international style house in Orange, Connecticut and listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places, courtesy…...
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…...