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Northampton

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What it's Like to Retire in Northampton

Set in the western portion of Massachusetts, Northampton is an exciting college town (Smith College) in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. It is a sought after retirement community among its graduates and many literary types. Northampton boasts a very rich cultural environment. Several famous movies have been shot here including parts of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, “Cider House Rules”, and “Sylvia”... more >>

State: Massachusetts

Lakeland

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What it's Like to Retire in Lakeland

Lakeland is a city of 94,000 in central Florida, east of Tampa with Orlando to its east. Lakeland is part of the Lakeland-Winterhaven Metro and growing fast, having grown 18% from 2000 to 2008. Florida Southern College with its enrollment of just under 2,000 is located in town... more >>

State: Florida

Cheektowaga

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What it's Like to Retire in Cheektowaga

Cheektowaga, New York, a suburb of Buffalo, is located in Erie County and has a population of just over 75,000 (2010 census).  The town was named by the Erie-Seneca Indians and means "Land of Many Crabapples" due to the abundance of Hawthorn trees in the area.  Cheektowaga  was orginally a farming area, but was then developed during the World War II subdivison boom... more >>

State: New York

Louisville

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What it's Like to Retire in Louisville

The City of Louisville, located in Boulder County, Colorado, began as a coal mining town in the late 1800's, and has recently become recognized as one of the top choices to live and raise a family in the United States. The Miners Memorial statue which stands in front of City Hall, is a symbol of the coal miners who built Louisville, as millions of tons of coal were produced from beneath the town before last of the mines closed during the 1950's... more >>

State: Colorado