Bowling Green, Kentucky is a picturesque and growing college town that makes a perfect retirement community for active adults who would like to stay near the Midwest. This town of about 61,000 in southwest Kentucky has development projects totaling hundreds of millions of dollars underway or newly completed. It is about an hour’s drive north of Nashville. Bowling Green has…...

Ridge is a town in Suffolk County, Long Island of about 13,000 people. It is north of I 495 and near Manorville and Medford.  Because it is some distance from NYC it is becoming home to many active adult communities, including some large ones (see Active Adult Communities link at top left). The Zillow Home Value Index was $324,757, in…...

Lucca, Italy is a charming little town in Tuscany that has become a popular retirement spot for the British, French, and Germans in recent years. Although the city as a whole contains about 84,000 inhabitants, the old walled city, by far the most interesting part of town, has a population of only 7,500. Lucca's location in Tuscany about 50 miles…...

Tooling along in your Corvette across Arizona on classic Route 66, you will eventually drive through Flagstaff. This small city of 52,000, centered amidst some of the most enchanting physical landmarks in the world, is a top rated community for retirement. At an altitude of 6910 feet the climate is dry and much cooler in the summer than anywhere else…...