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Update February 24, 2016: The 2016 Most Popular Places to Retire is now out February 21, 2015 – When Topretirements members and visitors dream about their best places to retire, warm places in Florida are usually featured. The Sunshine State dominates our 2015 list of the best places to…
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
By Billy and Akaisha Kaderli At the age of 62, we are beginning our 25th year of financial independence. That is quite a feat! From the beaches on Nevis, West Indies, to the shores of Phuket, Thailand we have traveled extensively through these decades, and what a ride it’s been!…
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
— This article continues our Dueling Retirement States series. See Further Reading at end for links to the other regions compared in the series — Updated July, 2020 – Original article February 16, 2015 — The Pacific Northwest has continued to experience amazing population growth since the end of World…
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
February 11, 2015 — Baby boomers have many concerns as they contemplate their retirements, but some issues resonate more than others. The three issues that keep coming up week after week in your comments and emails are: water shortages (in Arizona and the southwest), sinkholes (in Florida), and humidity (mostly…
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Category: Bucket Lists
February 9, 2015 –Like many retirees you have probably been thinking about bucket list trips as the icing on a hard fought working career. If so the idea of visiting Australia and New Zealand might be near the top. The advantages of such a trip are many. Here we will…
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Category: Active adult communities
February 3, 2015 — If you have spent much time by now on Topretirements.com we would be surprised if you haven’t seen a lot of Member comments about Home Owners Associations (HOAs). To many, it would seem these mysterious entities are the devil incarnate. Usually without any actual experience with…
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
Editor’s note: This is an unusual post from one of our Members, Harv. He originally posted it as a Comment to our “Dueling Retirements: AZ vs. FL” Blog article. But due to its length we thought it might be good to break it out as its own article. Please…
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
January 19, 2015 — In your search for the perfect community, how many of these statements would you agree are your priorities? Would you like to: – Walk or bike into town instead of going by car – Live in a real neighborhood – Have interesting entertainment…
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
Editor’s note: In our recent article, “Is A Money Pit Going to Ruin Your Retirement“, we reported on that most baby boomers want to continue to live where they do now. To that end, many are undertaking home improvement projects to make their homes more livable. This guest article…
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
January 11, 2015 — We baby boomers are conflicted about retirement in so many ways. For example we spend a lot of time planning to find a place where we can pursue our dreams, yet fail to consider how those dreams might change in 20 years. We worry about our…
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