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Best Outdoor Retirement Towns in America

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

If you have been hankering to retire to a place where the great out of doors is, well, right out your door, there is a new book you might want to pick up.  "Best Outdoor Towns" by Sarah Tuff & Greg Melville. The authors researched the best outdoor towns by looking at access to state and national parks; pristine outdoor areas; lakes and rivers; plus recreational activities like windsurfing, hiking, snowboarding, cross country skiing, fishing, and more. Just to make sure that these are outstanding communities from other viewpoints, they also factored in

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Published on December 3, 2007
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Judging a Retirement Town by Its Bookstore

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

Authors Recommend Their Favorite Stores and Towns -- Baby boomers have begun the search for their ideal retirement communities. For many of them, the quality of the town's bookstore is a key selection criterion. Goldengrain, a member at Topretirements.com, put it this way: “I need bookstores, colleges, lectures, discussion (and) a good active library We feel the same way - communities without good book stores are ghost towns. This article will review some of the top retirement towns in America - based on the quality of their bookstores. The most fun part of this article is that we were able to enlist a helpful group of top authors to write about their favorite bookstore towns. Here is the list (and feel free to post blog entries to cover the ones we've missed):

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Published on November 25, 2007
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At Last – A List of Certified Retirement Communities

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

Updated July, 2014 -- So far 7 U.S. states have embarked on programs to identify certified retirement communities as part of their economic development plans. This article will provide a list of the certified retirement communities in those states.These states are all in the south - Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. In total over 85 communities have been certified (in West Virginia they are called "designated", in Tennessee the communities are selected

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Published on August 10, 2007
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A New Look at Topretirements!

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

Welcome to our newly redesigned Home page. Our goals were to add a “News” element (which you will see in this space, updated several times a week with news about retirement communities), as well as to try to keep our most popular features higher up on the page for greater…

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Published on April 24, 2007
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