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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
York, Pennsylvania is one of the most inexpensive places in the USA to live in. Homes cost on average less than $100,000. The area obviously had some rust-belt type setbacks, but is now actively looking for economic growth. York is on Pennsylvania's southern border, closer to Baltimore (48 miles) than Philadelphia (108 miles). Photo of the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center…...
If there is an archetypal small town in America, it is Peterborough, New Hampshire (population just over 3,000). After all it is been portrayed lovingly in one of the most popular high school plays of all time, Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. And more recently it is warmly portrayed as the place for a gangster from the TV show, The…...
Eureka, California is a port city on the Humboldt Bay of California’s northern coast that makes an excellent retirement community. The population was 27,000 in 2018. Eureka was founded in 1856, and soon became an important port city for northern California's logging and commercial fishing industries. Eureka’s northern isolation means that it missed much of the post-war redevelopment. As result…...
California is a town of 10,000+ people in southern Maryland on a peninsula near the Chesapeake Bay. This part of Maryland is a bit too far to commute comfortable to Baltimore or Washington so it retains a more rural, small town feel than places closer to those Metros. It is a great place for watersports as the Patuxent River empties…...
