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Into the Woodlands

By Jeff Alden May 18, 2026 --Yesterday Paulette and I drove out to visit The Woodlands again. We’d been on thewaiting list since 2018, when we moved to Greenville, S.C. from Minneapolis. We were almostten years younger then. The Woodlands at Furman (the small university it’s loosely connectedto) is billed as a “Life Care Community,” designed to take you from…...

Top Retirement Towns

Naperville is an affluent suburb that is west of Chicago.  The population is over 140,000 so it is a small city in its own right, and is the headquarters of several large corporations including Nicor.  Money Magazine voted it a best place to live in 2006. Several colleges have satellite campuses in town....
 
If you would like to retire in a community that has the ocean and harbor on 3 sides, a vibrant, large and interesting downtown, and has one of the largest concentrations of beautiful and historic homes in the country, Newport, Rhode Island (population 26,000) is for you. In colonial days Newport was the most important port in Rhode Island. It…...
 
 
Lebanon is a small town of about 25,000 in southeastern PA, in the beautiful Cornwall area, and is equidistant from Harrisburg, Reading and Lancaster. The downtown is historic with some of the buildings dating back to the 1700 and 1800's.  Harrisburg Area Community College has a branch campus here.  Picture of the Reading Railroad Station on Eight Street, and picture…...
 
Ocala, known as the Brick City because that is how it was rebuilt after a disastrous fire on Thanksgiving day in 1883, and is now one of the larger towns in north central Florida. The population is almost 61,000 people with many more in the surrounding area. Originally a citrus growing region, Ocala is now famous as horse country, with…...
 
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