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Try It NOWCategory: Retirement 101 Course
February 20, 2019 — By now you have hopefully taken our online “Retirement Preparation Quiz” and seen your score. If you haven’t, you can take it here. Please realize that the original passing score (70%) was chosen subjectively – your opinion of the state of your retirement preparation is…
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Category: Retirement 101 Course
Note: The 4th module in our Retirement 101 Online Retirement Preparation Course is a 20 Question Quiz February 20, 2019 — One of the wisest pieces of advice we have ever heard is to “know what you don’t know”. The adage applies perfectly to the world of retirement, where good planning can lead to a…
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Category: Travel
February 17, 2019 — A potential solution to one of the biggest problems facing older retirees is on the road in The Villages, the world’s largest retirement community. Voyage, an automated taxi service, is testing driverless cars within parts of that community’s road system. If successful, the project will help…
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
February 11, 2019 — Our “Dueling States” comparison articles remain all-time favorites at Topretirements.com (see complete list at end of article). Yet none is more popular than the one on “Dueling Carolinas“. At last count there were 631 Member comments going back several years, and right up to several…
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
February 10, 2019 — If you have been reading this Blog for awhile you know that fixing Social Security is one of our pet issues. In 2034, if nothing is done, the system will start to fail the millions of Americans who are counting on Social Security for their retirement.
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Category: Active adult communities
Note: This is the third module in our Retirement Planning 101 online training course. Here is a link to the entire retirement planning series. Updated Oct. 2023 (originally Feb. 2019) — If you are visiting this website the chances are you are thinking about living in some kind…
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
February 4, 2018 — Millions of Americans are getting on their bicycles in retirement. Bicycling gets you outside, provides cheap transportation, and is great exercise. Your editor loves it and bikes almost every day. Unfortunately there is a dark side to biking; it can be dangerous. This article will talk…
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
January 29, 2019 — Perhaps you have heard of the FIRE movement, which stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. The idea is to retire in one’s late 30s or early 40s by a combination of aggressively cutting down on spending and amassing retirement savings. There are hundreds of thousands of…
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
Note: This is Module 2 in our Online Retirement Planning 101 Series. See end of article for full list. January 26, 2019 — The overwhelming #1 suggestion for our Retirement 101 series was “How to Retire on Less than $1 million” (smaller numbers were suggested to). Certainly most retirees…
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Category: Retirement 101 Course
January 23, 2019 — We had so many wonderful suggestions (48 comments in all!) on the future direction of our Retirement 101 Course (Module 1) – thank you! They were so helpful that we felt it important to summarize them here. This is a list of all the current “Retirement…
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