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December 17, 2025– I am sad to report that the last issue of our Best Places newsletter was sent out this morning. Unfortunately, and for a lot of reasons, visits to our site have slowed down dramatically in the past few years. That means that it is no longer economically viable to continue the weekly newsletter. The Topretirements.com website will…...
Top Retirement Towns
Bluffton is a small town with a population of about 13,000 (but 37,000 in the area), on the coast of South Carolina just off of Hilton Head Island and near the Georgia border. Home to many retirement communities (see link at top right), the town is located on a bluff overlooking the May River in an area long known for…...
Brick Township incorporates several towns in Ocean County New Jersey above Toms River. Parts of the township are inland while others are on the Barnegat Peninsula. Many retirees are escaping suburban New York and New Jersey to move to this less dense part of the State by the Jersey shore. Newsmax named Brick as one of the "Top 25 Most…...
Walla Walla is the county seat of Walla Walla County in southeastern Washington. It is home to one of the top small private colleges in the country, Whitman College. With just over 34,000 residents (2020), it is a reasonable size and growing steadily. It makes an excellent retirement community - in fact Money Magazine at one point ranked it as…...
Gainesville is a very small but extremely affluent town of about 6,000 in northern Virginia, close to Manassas and Washington D.C. Many battles of the Civil War were fought in this region....
