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Go Back to College for Retirement?
Note: This is part of a series on college town retirements. See Further Reading below for links to the other installments. Now updated, it originally appeared in 2014.April 2025 — Ask someone to name the most exciting years of their lives, and many will tell you it was when they were in college. The breathtaking new freedom, intellectual challenges, and stimulating…...
Top Retirement Towns
Ithaca is a town of 30,000 located on the shores of Cayuga Lake, one of New York’s finger lakes. Home of the Ivy League's Cornell University, Ithaca makes an ideal retirement community for active adults 55 plus who would like to live in bustling college town. During the school year the population doubles as Cornell and Ithaca College’s student body…...
Manassas is the site of two famous Civil War battles (the first and second Battles of Bull Run). This town of about 35,000 people is close enough to Washington D.C. that is a suburb of that city, yet far enough away to provide some refuge for retirees who want to stay in the area in retirement. Five colleges have branch…...
A town of under 7,000 in Sussex County, and growing rapidly, Millsboro is located in southeast Delaware, not far from Rehoboth Beach and Delaware's beaches. It is a small, pretty historical town. Its origins come from being the first point on the Indian River narrow enough to build a dam for water power. Millsboro had always been a market center…...
Salem, located on the Willamette River in the northwest part of the state, is the capital of Oregon. This growing city depends on state government and agriculture for economic support. This city of over 175,000 always has something going on - a festival, museum show, or some entertainment from the several colleges hosted in Salem. It has a park system…...
