Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
May 25, 2010 -- You've probably been at a party where you discovered you didn't know a soul. Remember the feeling you got when a total stranger came up to you with a friendly smile and welcomed you? With that one warm greeting your anxiety probably went down, you stopped second-guessing your decision to come, and you started to enjoy the party. When it comes to retiring to a strange place, states and towns that seek out retirees might give you that same warm feeling. This article will explore what we think makes for retirement-friendly states, cities, and towns.
Types of friendliness
States (and towns and cities) have several types of friendliness that they could offer:
- Economic. This is mostly available in the form of tax relief, of which
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Published on May 24, 2010
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
May 18, 2010 -- Nobody loves a good list more than we do. To that end we decided to come out with our own 10 Best of the Best List. Our goal here is to assemble the best of Topretirements in one place, making it easier for our visitors to find our best stuff, quickly and easily. In this list you will find:
- The best places (towns and cities) to retire
- The best places in the world to retire
- The best under-rated places to retire
- The best active adult and 55+ communities
- The best retirement feature articles
- The best retirement blog stories
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Published on May 18, 2010
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Category: Retirement Real Estate
May 11, 2011 -- The sky is falling in Greece and Europe, the stock market went so crazy last week that blue chips went from $30/share to 1 cent in 15 minutes, the Gulf of Mexico continues to spout millions of gallons of crude oil - and amidst this encouraging backdrop you have to decide what to do about your retirement. You might be excused to be a bit uncertain about whether you should you buy...rent...or stay. This article will discuss some of the important factors you should consider in making your decision.
Buy?
Buying a place for retirement is a dream and a plan for many baby boomers. Here are some of the factors
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Published on May 11, 2010
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
May 4, 2010 and updated April 6, 2015 -- Florida and Arizona have long been the favorite 2 states for retirement migration. A study from Del Webb, however, finds that the Carolinas, North and South, might have usurped FL and AZ's traditional positions as the favorite retirement destination states. This article will concentrate on how and why North Carolina overcame Florida to become the number 1 retirement destination in some people's eyes. In addition to trying to explain how this important shift has come about, we will also review some of the top places to retire in this diverse state. We encourage you to read all of the articles in our Dueling Retirement series (listed at the end of this article), including: Dueling Carolinas: NC vs. SC
North Carolina's Secret Sauce
A warm winter climate has traditionally been the most important reason
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Published on May 4, 2010
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Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues
April 28, 2010 -- The "coming of age" movie and TV show has just taken on a new dimension for us baby boomers. "Sunset Daze", a TV show that debuts today on WE TV, shows just how far (and how low) we are about to go as a generation. Once we were celebrated for our youth in movies like "The Graduate" and events like "Woodstock". Now, the age group just a few years older than us oldest baby boomers is starring in what the New York Times calls a "boozy, oversexed reality TV genre". The Times has given the new show unusually full coverage with a front page article yesterday and a generally very positive review in today's television section. Yesterday's article was "Boozy, Bawdy Reality TV, With a Few Wrinkles", today's is "The Golden Years: Feisty, Fit, and Flirty"
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Published on April 27, 2010
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Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues
Younger baby boomers, those aged 50 years old in 2010, foresee a vastly different retirement world than 50 year-olds who were surveyed in 1996. According to a pair of surveys by active adult community developer Del Webb, today’s 50 year-old plans to retire four years later, at a median age of 67 versus age 63 nearly fifteen years ago. Fully 73% of baby boomers plan on continuing to work in retirement. That contrasts with current retirees living in Del Webb communities, of whom just 40% have actually worked since retirement. The conclusion drawn by Del Webb is that today's younger boomers don't see retirement as necessarily the end of their working life, but possibly something pushed out further or which includes work in some form
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Published on April 27, 2010
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Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues
One of the nicest additions to anyone’s garden is the aster, a late blooming flower that helps sustain color and variety as fall turns to winter. The metaphor works for retirement planning, since people who plan their retirement tend to do it a lot better than those who leave it…
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Published on April 26, 2010
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
There are so many different factors to consider when it comes to choosing your best place to retire. Climate, cultural and political environment, location, cost of living, taxes, and recreational opportunities - just to name a few. But there is another key factor to be considered that can dramatically affect your quality of life - walkability. This article will explore how the ability to walk to most of your daily activities and chores can not only enhance the quality of your life, but be a good investment as well.
In its "Tale of Two Cities" article The Daily Kos recently reported on the contrast between a very walkable town and another where residents need a car to go just about anywhere. Both Venice (FL) and Lehigh Acres (near Ft. Myers, FL) began as planned communities. But the similarities stop there. Venice has a beautiful
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Published on April 20, 2010
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
April 5, 2010 -- There are as many theories about where baby boomers will retire to as there are people writing about the topic. There are certain patterns though, and they can be helpful to others who are pondering the question: "What is the best place for me to retire to?" This article will explore the question of how many people move in retirement (and how far), why they are moving, and where they are moving to. We finish up the article with an extremely interesting report - the real places where Topretirements' visitors have told us they are moving to.
How Many People Move in Retirement?
According to a recent study by Boston College's Center for Retirement Research, "Americans on the Go: How Often, Where, and Why?", and results from the Census Bureau, not very many older Americans move in
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Published on April 5, 2010
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
This is the second of a multi-part article on retirement confidence and the ability of retirees to have a comfortable retirement. The first article was called "Retirement Confidence Hits Rock Bottom".
A new study from the Boston College Center for Retirement Research shows that 6 out of 10 retirees (61%) are at risk of not having enough retirement income to maintain their pre-retirement living standard. Those who choose to use a reverse mortgage to increase their retirement income can reduce their risk to 51%. For many reasons, however, only
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Published on March 30, 2010
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