Category: General Retirement Issues
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…
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Published on December 16, 2025
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Category: General Retirement Issues
August 5, 2025 — Topretirements will be returning to Mailchimp as the service that sends out our weekly “Best Places” newsletter. We apologize for the confusion that changing back from Substack might create. The switch back to our old newsletter style will take place with the August 7 issue. We…
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Published on August 5, 2025
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Category: Estate Planning
January 14, 2025 – Green Burials are growing trend among very environmentally conscious people. The numbers are pretty small, but they are catching on. The idea is that your body is disposed of in a way that is friendly to the planet: no preservatives used in embalming, non-biodegradable materials, or…
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Published on January 13, 2025
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Category: General Retirement Issues
January 3, 2023 — The most read retirement articles of 2023 at Topretirements are always interesting to look at. That is because although we are often convinced a topic will hit a sweet spot for our Members, it doesn’t always work out that way. 10 Myths That…
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Published on January 2, 2024
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Category: General Retirement Issues
This interview with the author Lisa Black first appeared on JungleRedWriters.com. We are reprinting part of it here with permission because her positive take on Florida and retirees is so interesting. Lisa’s new book is What Harms You. Lisa Black God’s Waiting…
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Published on July 9, 2023
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Category: General Retirement Issues
December 27, 2022 — In many ways 2022 was better than 2021, and far superior to the pandemic ruined bust that was 2020. People finally got to take all of their postponed trips from years before, so traveling is back. Fear of dying from Covid relaxed a bit, although all…
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Published on December 27, 2022
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Category: General Retirement Issues
December 20, 2022 – There is a new crush of retirees coming to town, and they are not Baby Boomers. Generation X, those born from 1965 to 1980, are finally getting their turn in the retirement spotlight, a very big demographic shift in the making. The eldest GenX-ers will turn…
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Published on December 19, 2022
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Category: General Retirement Issues
Sept. 21, 2022 — Topretirements is about to enter its 17th year, hard to believe. During that time we have covered about every topic we could think of, from best places in all kinds of categories, to Medicare and Social Security, to what to do in retirement, and a whole…
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Published on September 21, 2022
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Category: General Retirement Issues
December 29, 2021 — This year has been mighty interesting. As 2021 winds down and we look with hope for a happier, less chaotic 2022, it is always enlightening to peer backwards. Which topics and articles resonated the most with our Members, and which ones were duds – knowing that…
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Published on December 28, 2021
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Category: General Retirement Issues
October 3, 2021 — Subscribers to our Daily Alert were probably confused on Sunday, Oct. 3 when they received 3 copies of the same email. We are sorry about that. Probably as a result of our server being bombarded by someone try to index our content, the Oct 1 and…
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Published on October 3, 2021
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