Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
January 4, 2020 -- Who wouldn't want to wake up to a loon calling in the distance. Or the sound from the gentle lap of waves on the shore. Here are 20 great places to retire on a lake where you can do all of these things. Having the grandchildren up to enjoy some fishing or a boat ride. Not to mention the pleasure of an early morning dip in velvety lake water.
Lakes to retire on are everywhere.
The good news is that the country is filled with lakes and ponds of every size and description. Some are edged by major cities (Chicago or Madison WI), while others have bucolic towns on their shores. There are lakes where you can retire that have nothing around them except the occasional camp or cottage. By choosing just 20 lake towns in this report, it means that we have omitted dozens if not hundreds of other great candidates. We have tried to focus on lakes where it is possible to live on or near the lake, and where there is some kind of nearby town for entertainment and the necessities of life. Some of these lake towns were suggested by members.
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Published on January 4, 2020
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
January 7, 2020 — We are conducting a quick poll here on this Blog and in our Best Places Newsletter. The question is: Did you make a New Year’s Resolution this year? Please answer Yes or No in the Comments section below. And if you care to comment…
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Published on January 7, 2020
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
January 8, 2020 — Our friend Dave Hughes, the creator of the retirement website Retirefabulously.com, has just released a helpful new book. The Quest for Retirement Utopia is designed to help you find your best place to retire. To see…
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Published on January 8, 2020
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Category: Uncategorized
BULLETIN: Software glitch unsubscribed you from our Weekly Best Places Newsletter! We are sorry to burden you with this, but it appears that because of operator error and a badly designed interface, we accidentally UNSUBSCRIBED ALL of our weekly Best Places Newsletter subscribers! If you would like to continue…
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Published on January 9, 2020
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
January 13, 2020 -- Many thanks to the over 400 members who took the time to contribute their valuable insights to last week's "Retirement Happiness" survey, We appreciate your spirit of giving back to this community!
As promised, here is a detailed report on the survey. We've included links to hundreds of interesting Member responses to various questions - they are definitely worth reading to get a better understand happiness and retirement. At the end of the article you will find a list of reports to all our previous surveys.
BackgroundThis is the first time we have surveyed on your retirement happiness. Here are the highlights from the 18 question poll. Detailed findings the questions are listed below that.
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Published on January 12, 2020
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
January, 2020 — One of confusing things about Medicare is that it has two different open enrollment periods. We are currently in the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period, which runs from Jan. 1 through March 31. We have previously written about the Medicare Open Enrollment period and which type…
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Published on January 19, 2020
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
January 28, 2020 — Having tried to cheat you out of your money in dozens of other ways, hackers are now targeting retirement accounts. Unfortunately it can be very easy for them, and even worse than that, you might not get your money back if they steal it. With retirement…
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Published on January 27, 2020
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