Your Guide to the Best Retirement Communities

Beautiful and friendly small town with lots of culture and activities and very little downtown auto traffic. Walk to the beautiful Town Square. Hayesville is near the mountains and lakes. There is hiking, golf, bicycle trails, mild climate, cool summers. Plus it is only 2 hours to Atlanta, Asheville and Chatanooga......

Thomasville, Georgia, the City of Roses, makes a picturesque retirement community in this historic cotton plantation country. It combines graceful beauty and a reasonable cost of living. The active brick-paved downtown has been beautifully restored with live oaks draped in Spanish moss, magnolias, antebellum homes, and fragrant plantings. Thomasville (popula.....

Blountville is a small town in extreme northeastern Tennessee. Retirement in Tennessee is very attractive from a cost and tax perspective; as a result many active adult communities are being built in the state, including the Blountville area.

Average home prices had gone into the $100's in 2006-7 but have since retreated to about $100k in 2008......

Waitsville, Vermont (population 1,700) is an interesting retirement choice for someone who enjoys the outdoors and doesn’t mind cold weather. Often thought of together with the small adjacent town of Warren, Waitsfield is just a few miles from 3 top Vermont ski resorts, Sugarbush, Sugarbush North, and Mad River Glen. The town itself is cute and exudes a New England feeling as it meanders along R.....