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	<description>How to Find Your Best Place to Retire</description>
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		<title>Results Are in: Where You Think the Best Place to Retire Is</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Best Retirement Towns and States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[May 21, 2013 &#8212; The heck with what all the so called &#8220;experts&#8221; think with their fancy best places to retire lists &#8211; you&#8217;ve told us what&#8217;s most important &#8211; where YOU think those places are. So thanks to the more than 130 members who took the time to answer our recent survey &#8211; &#8220;Tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Assisted Living Option &#8211; And Preventing Being a Fraud Victim</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Eldercare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[May 20, 2013 &#8212; On our sister site, BestAssistedLiving.com, we just posted a pair of interesting articles. The first explores an option to assisted living when budget is a problem. Some facilities in Mexico offer first rate care at a fraction of the cost in the U.S. The second is a link to a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up and Coming Places to Retire: Are you Willing to Take a Chance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 20:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Retirement Real Estate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[May 14, 2013 &#8212; Here you are in a strange, not yet &#8220;rediscovered&#8221; town. You can see there are some obvious problems. But look &#8211; here&#8217;s a pleasant street lined with stately Victorian, Queen Anne, and Georgian homes. Some are proudly restored, and others are in various stages of rejuvenation. You keep walking through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Len and Ann Think The Villages is the Perfect Place to Retire</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 20:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Active adult communities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[May 7, 2013 &#8212; Note: This is an updated version of an article we ran in early 2012. It is basically the same content as before, but this update allows us to start over with fresh set of Comments. Our goal is to portray a variety of active baby boomer retirement lifestyles for our members, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Share: Where Do You Think is the Best Place to Retire?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 18:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Best Retirement Towns and States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[May 6, 2013 — Like we did in 2012, it is time again to ask our members to share their retirement plans. But we would like to ask the question in a little different way. Specifically, where do you think is the best place to retire, based on what you know now. When we asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding a Tax Friendly State for Retirement: A Checklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Financial and taxes in retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax friendly states for retirement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[April 30, 2013 &#8212; Note: This is part 2 of our Most Tax Friendly Places for Retirement series. Part 1 was &#8220;Finding Your Tax Friendly Place for Retirement&#8220;. Let&#8217;s assume that you are a person looking for a tax-friendly state to retire. You need to start your search by realizing these key facts: your tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retirees Beware: Pension Loans Trap the Unwary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 29, 2013 &#8211; A front page story in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times spotlighted the newest way for retired Americans to get into serious financial trouble. The story, &#8220;Loans Borrowed Against Pensions Squeeze Retirees highlighted the growing trouble in Pension Advances. The idea behind them is that in exchange for an upfront advance (called an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Finally the Right Time to Buy (or Sell) Your Home?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Retirement Real Estate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[April 24 &#8212; Oh what a contrast from 4-5 years ago. In the dark days of real estate reporting in 2008 and 2009 there was a steady drumbeat of foreclosures, short sales, record home inventory backlogs, and falling prices. There were no buyers, it seemed, and although there weren&#8217;t many sellers, it wasn&#8217;t from lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pros, Cons, and Considerations of an International Retirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International Retirement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[April 23, 2013 &#8212; Notes: This is Part 2 in our recent series about International Retirements. Part 1 provided our list of the &#8220;10 Best International Places to Retire&#8220;. Also of note, Part 1 generated an interview request from Radio Kerry (Ireland), which was delighted in Ireland&#8217;s #1 ranking on our list. The short radio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Work Baby Boomers Struggle to Survive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 16, 2013 &#8212; Millions of baby boomers have been forced into earlier than intended retirement. Surviving that experience has become a brutal challenge. A study from the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank, found that it took more than nine months for half of those over 50 to find a job. Many have not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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