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August 15 , 2024 — One of the most common things that retirees say they want to do is travel, now that they have the time, and maybe the money, to do it. Couples usually spend a lot of time deciding where and when to go. For example, they might…
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
August 6, 2024 — The New York Times reported on a phenomenon that is literally uprooting retirees and others in Florida and elsewhere. In “Skyrocketing Insurance Is Clobbering Consumers” the Times reported on the crippling escalations in homeowner insurance that are forcing many homeowners out of their homes.
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Category: Social Security
August 6, 2024 — In case you haven’t been paying attention, a real crisis is brewing for Social Security. According to its Trustees, its reserves will be exhausted by 2035 (just 11 years away), at which time the only money available will be from taxes paid by current workers. Only…
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Category: Active adult communities
August 1, 2024 — Pocket Neighborhoods were a surprising favorite in our recent poll of your preferred type of community for retirement. (Use this link to see all results from the poll). Last week we did a feature on another winner, New Urban Communities, so here is the lowdown…
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Category: Social Security
July 31, 2024 — Ordinarily Social Security or the IRS will not contact you by email or phone – unless it is from the mail, consider it spam or some kind of ripoff. But if you got an email recently from the Social Security Administration titled “Important Changes to Access…
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Category: Active adult communities
New Urban Neighborhoods Have “Lots” to Offer July 24, 2024 — New Urban Urban Community was the surprising winner of our recent poll of favorite retirement community types. Of the 5 possible choices in that poll, New Urban got 28% of the votes, narrowly beating out “I wouldn’t live in…
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Category: Active adult communities
July 18, 2024 — The results are in from our recent poll of your favorite community types, which we labelled “The Search”. In 2 polls featuring 10 different types, we asked our Members and visitors to vote on which type of community they would most like to retire in. The…
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Category: Active adult communities
July 14, 2024 — We had to read this one a couple of times to believe it- yes, Taco Bell is starting a retirement community. It is called The Cantinas and is located near San Diego, California. Their marketing slogan is “Come Live Más at the ultimate playground for your…
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Category: Active adult communities
July 11, 2024 — Continuing on from Part 1 of last month’s “The Search” feature, here are 5 more retirement community types for you to vote on at the bottom of this page. With 10 community types to consider, we broke this series into two sections to make it…
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Category: Adventurous retirement
July 3 , 2024 — A trip to Scandinavia might be on your bucket list. It certainly was on ours. After talking about it for many years, Roberta and I went there for 2 weeks in June. We highly recommend it – the sights are magnificent, the people are…
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