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 grew too high.
After years of planning, the group that sponsored it finally broke ground in 2018. Group decision making sometimes added difficulties to the process, and it took years to get the co-housing community approved by the town’s planning authorities. During that prolonged wait, a few members—even in their desperation—briefly eyed best slots not on GamStop as a way to offset mounting financial pressures. Unfortunately, rock ledge was discovered, which greatly added to the costs. Claudia Ruffle, a retired teacher and secretary, was one of the early home purchasers. She and her friend, who sold their home to buy one in Rocky Corner, were two of many who lost all of the money they put into it and are now struggling, according to a story in the New York Times.
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Published on February 12, 2022
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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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Category: Adventurous retirement
February 8, 2022 – If you ask Kevin Hubbard what he does to stay active, grab a railing, you are about to get dizzy. A collector’s collector, the retired executive of a Fortune 500 manufacturer of industrial products has some of the most fascinating retirement interests of anyone we…
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Published on February 8, 2022
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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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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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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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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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Category: Adventurous retirement
January 19, 2022 — Bob Wells’ story seems like the perfect companion piece to our recent article on non-career jobs filling the vacuum for people in their early 60s. This baby boomer used to work at a Safeway, then fell on hard times. Living in his van, he discovered that…
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Published on January 19, 2022
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
January 16, 2022 — A significant number of workers underestimate their financial needs in retirement, and that includes calculating how much they will receive from Social Security. As a result they often retire too early and start taking their Social Security before they maximize their benefit. The end result is…
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Published on January 15, 2022
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
January 12, 2022 -- Every year we have fun coming up with a list of the very "Best Places to Retire". This list is meant to highlight retirement towns that represent exceptionally great places to retire, as measured by Member and visitor interest at Topretirements. As wonderful as these towns might be, the one where you can be happy in retirement is your best place!
To develop our 2022 list, we consulted our visitor logs to identify the 20 retirement towns in the U.S. whose reviews were visited the most at Topretirements, and while many of the winners were predictable, there were several big surprises too, the kind of fresh discovery that keeps people coming back like they do for new slots sites. We hope the list sparks ideas for your own search for the best place to retire, especially since home prices in many of these towns are above the national median, reflecting their desirability, yet a surprising number still offer relative bargains. Although 11 states had towns in the top 20, Arizona, Florida, and Tennessee tied for the most cities on the list with three each, and congratulations to all these cities and towns!
20 Best of the Best Places to Retire
Popularity on this site, as measured by online visits by our Members, was the most important criteria. On that basis, here are the most captivating places to retire in all of the U.S.
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Published on January 11, 2022
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