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Is a Golden Girls’ Style Retirement in Your Future?

Category: Cohousing

February 23, 2022 — We have heard many people fantasize about home sharing like in the popular TV show “The Golden Girls”, which featured four older women having a ball sharing a home and life together. NextAvenue.com had a great article and…

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Published on February 22, 2022
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Baby Boomers and Millennials Move More Than Other Groups: But They Won’t Be Meeting

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

February 21, 2022 – Two demographics are more likely to move than any other. The group with the highest tendency to migrate is highest is young adults, who tend to move in search in jobs and fortune. At retirement age (commonly around 65), there is another big spike in migration. Although…

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Published on February 20, 2022
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Which of These 5 Social Security Myths Will Wreck Your Retirement

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

February 15, 2022 — Everybody knows some things about Social Security, the benefit that changed retirement for the good when it was signed into law in 1935. Unfortunately, some of the items many people think they know either aren’t true, or are just plain wrong. This misinformation could have a…

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Published on February 14, 2022
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A Dream Unfulfilled – CT Cohousing Project Foreclosed

Category: Cohousing

February 13, 2022 – A group of Connecticut would be homeowners and investors is greatly disappointed about the demise of Rocky Corner, a planned co-housing project in Bethany, CT. It was to be Connecticut’s first collaborative living project, but ultimately failed because it took too long to develop and costs…

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Published on February 12, 2022
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Heart Valve Disease Week – Are You at Risk?

Category: Health and Wellness Issues

Feb  15 – Feb 22 is heart valve disease awareness week. As many as 11.6 million Americans are estimated to have heart valve disease, and each year around 25,000 people die from the disease. Fortunately, valve disease can usually be successfully treated in patients of all ages. Getting personal…

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Published on February 9, 2022
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To Rent or Not to Rent: That Is the Question

Category: Retirement Real Estate

February 3, 2022 — Chances are that for most of your life it was drilled into you that home ownership is the road to economic security. Pay off that mortgage, count on rising property values, and someday you will have accumulated substantial equity. But now that you are approaching your…

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Published on February 2, 2022
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Retirement Is A Chance for Fun: The Games People Play

Category: What to do in retirement

February 2, 2022 — When people retire they (and their friends and spouses!) wonder how the new retiree will fill their day. Will they just shuffle around the empty house, rearranging the tools in the garage, and counting the hours until they can crank up the riding mower? Or will…

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Published on February 2, 2022
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10 More Unusual (and Really Great) Places to Retire

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

January 26, 2022 — A while back one of our Members asked if we could come up with a list of more unusual places to retire. As he reminded us, not everyone is looking to retire in a place that is famous, or where there are warm winters and gentle…

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Published on January 25, 2022
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Unique Communities Where Learning And Staying Busy Are a Priority

Category: Active adult communities

January 22, 2022 — Each year many of us make new year’s resolutions that we have every intention of keeping, at  least for a couple of weeks. Many of those resolutions may involve health, fitness, learning, and keeping up with the technology that surrounds us.  Fortunately, there are many communities…

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Published on January 22, 2022
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