The 20 Most Popular Active Communities Outside of the Sunbelt
Category: Active adult communities
May 12, 2020 — Not everyone wants to retire in the Sunbelt. One reason is that people who already live in the northeast, midwest, or northwest are reluctant to retire far from where they live now, and would prefer to stay close to the familiar, including their relatives and friends. To help those folks looking for an active community in the northeast or northwest, we went exploring in the Topretirements visitor files for the last six months to find the communities that seem most popular on this site.
The results are a combination of big surprises and pretty much what we expected. No big surprise, Delaware ran away with in this “most popular” sweepstakes with 6 communities in the top 20. Virginia netted 3 places, and Pennsylvania 3. The biggest surprises were a community on a lake in Canada and a Lutheran community near Fort Wayne, Indiana; the popularity for which are not clear. Almost all of these most popular, non-Sunbelt active communities were in the northeast, plus one in Idaho and another in Oregon. It was a bit of surprise not to see a better showing from communities in New Jersey, which has many large developments to choose from.
Comments on "The 20 Most Popular Active Communities Outside of the Sunbelt"
jemmie says:
We enjoyed discussing this new list which proves there a lot of different choices in homes and types of communities people are looking at-the list of the 20 most popular included single family homes, condos, manufactured homes, cottages, and a CCRC. We are snowbirds and live in northern Pennsylvania but don't want to live in Florida when it is time to choose an area where we will go to downsize and live full-time. So it was nice to see both PA and DE communities on the list, which we have taken into consideration. One thing (of many), that the pandemic has pointed out to both of us is that a little cottage home or small condo just won't work, we need a house where we each have our "zones".