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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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Gilbert is a very fast growing town of over 200,000 located southeast of Phoenix. It is between Mesa and Chandler. The city is a bedroom community for Phoenix and Tempe, as well as home to many retirees living in active adult communities. Gilbert is characterized as more suburban and more of a town than nearby Chandler, although the latter has…...
Amherst is a small town near Lake Erie that is west of Cleveland. The population is just under 12,000. It is known as the sandstone center of the world for its many quarries; the stone was used in grindstones and in local buildings. Photo of "Sandstone Center of the World" marker courtesy of Wikipedia and Chris Light, Licensed under CC…...
Chandler is a very fast growing community of about 276,000 people in Arizona (2020 census), southeast of Phoenix and Tempe. Chandler is home to some of the largest and fanciest active adult and 55+communities. People move here for the dry climate and the beautiful desert mountains nearby. For many of the people who live here Chandler, one of the newer…...
Tampa is the largest city in the very large Metro (4 million people) of Tampa-St.Petersburg-Clearwater on Florida's west coast. Located about half way down the coast, the city has a spectacular location on Tampa Bay and Hillsborough Bay, which in turn lead to the Gulf of Mexico. Formerly one of the world's largest cigar makers, 500,000,000 cigars were hand-rolled here…...
