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A Retirement Town So Pretty It Hurts – Edenton, NC

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

August 3, 2016 — Sometimes you visit a possible retirement town that is just so darn pretty you can’t stand it. Edenton, North Carolina is one of those. Here is where you can find our more detailed review of Edenton. But it proved to be such a…

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Published on August 3, 2016
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If A Town Has a Great Bookstore – It’s Probably a Wonderful Place to Retire

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

June 22, 2016 — Most everybody has a drop dead requirement for their best place to retire. For book lovers, that can mean living in a town where there is an interesting bookstore. Sure you can buy books online at Amazon, but for many there is no substitute for being…

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Published on June 21, 2016
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The Most Walkable Towns in Florida for Retirement

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

June 1, 2016 — Easy walkability to town, parks and lakes, and shopping were top considerations for retirement living when we surveyed our members 3 years ago. To help you find places that meet that criteria we have identified 10 Florida towns where it is easy and a joy to…

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Published on June 1, 2016
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11 Small Cities Perfect for Your Retirement

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

May 24, 2016 — Does the idea of retiring to a small town seem nice, but just a little too confining? Or do the bright city lights get you excited – until you realize the urban pace might be too big, too intense, too congested, too expensive for a retirement…

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Published on May 23, 2016
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10 Friendly Places to Retire

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

May 9, 2016 — The nation’s 77 million baby boomers face a life-changing decision – finding a place to live once they retire. Making a good choice involves many considerations, but the most critical is to select a place that helps them fit in and feel welcome quickly. After all,…

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Published on May 9, 2016
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Sandy and Annie’s Quest for the Perfect Place to Retire

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

April 11, 2016 — We love hearing stories from real people about their adventures in finding the perfect place to retire. So we were very fortunate recently to get an in depth interview from 2 old friends, Sandy and Ann, who shared their retirement search adventures. We hope you will…

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Published on April 11, 2016
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Best and Worst Places to Retire Lists: Worth the Time It Takes to Read Them?

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

April 6, 2016 — Are any of the Best States to Retire” lists you see so frequently worth the few minutes it takes you to read them? That is a pretty good question, since A: there are so many to read, and B: they seem to contradict themselves more than…

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Published on April 5, 2016
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Dueling Retirement States Series Update: VA, MD, NJ, DE

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

March 29, 2016 — Due to popular requests we periodically update our extensive series of “Dueling Retirement States”. The latest to be updated is the comparison of retirement in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware. The previous version of this comparison was from 2010. Since then most trends and…

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Published on March 29, 2016
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And the Nation’s Fastest Growing Metro…. The Villages, of Course

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

March 26, 2016 — If you asked most people to name the fastest growing Metro in the U.S., we think many would not be able to come up with the right one. The answer is a most surprising one – The Villages, the sprawling community of 119,000 in Central…

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Published on March 25, 2016
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Sarasota is the New #1 Most Popular Place to Retire: Announcing Our 2016 List

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

Update July 2017: See our all new 2017 Best Places to Retire List June, 2016 – Move over Asheville, there is a newcomer perched atop the Topretirements annual list of most popular places to retire. For the first time since we started publishing this list in 2007, Asheville,…

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Published on February 23, 2016
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