Those Best Places to Retire Lists Keep On Coming
Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
Note: Coincidence or not, one of Topretirements’ Best Places to Retire lists was picked up as a feature on January 26 by both TheStreet.com and MSN.com (“Best U.S. Cities to Retire in”). We are definitely honored!
January 20, 2018 — How many “best places to retire” lists have you come across this month? We know we’ve seen plenty, in fact our son even forwards them to us. The big question about the never ending barrage of lists is, are they worth reading? Here we will explore the somewhat wild and crazy of best places lists, a topic we hope you will find interesting.
#1 – There is no limit to how specialized these lists can get
Thanks to a Denver Post article we learned a whole lot of new ways to tackle the “best places” list game. Consider some of these candidates
Comments on "Those Best Places to Retire Lists Keep On Coming"
Elaine in Tucson says:
Today I read this 2017 list of the best places to live in the U.S., mostly small towns: http://time.com/money/collection/best-places-to-live-2017/
Lists like these are useful for me because I don't want to retire in a senior community, but I do want to be in a diverse community with different age groups and interesting things to do. It keeps me young thinking and acting. Potentially a town that is good for families is good for older citizens, depending on people's abilities and interests while living their 24/7 lives. Of course a good senior center in an active family town is a strong consideration.
Maybe in another 20 years I'll be looking at different factors that draw me to a more "senior" place to live, but right now, I prefer to be mixing with young people. I would go nuts living in Green Valley (I'm about 30 miles from there now and have visited for different purposes) or The Villages. I'm not worried about living in a state with different political leanings than I have because I can help purple it up. And although Scottsdale is technically small, it butts up against the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler area so that it's part of that metropolis sprawl for the most part. I consider it as part of the big city.
sunny says:
These lists are informative and fun to read but we really need to make our own lists of course. I think what it will boil down to for us is close to an airport and close to medical care, and although many of the mentioned amenities are important, it may be give and take.