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Are You Prepared to Die?
March 27, 2023 -- If that is an unpleasant question, it certainly is. Less than half of Americans have discussed their end of life plans with a relative. The result of that inaction is incalculable trouble and work for those left behind. Like finding out that all your money is a checking account you don't have access to. Or not…...
Top Retirement Towns
Fredericksburg is a fast growing old town near the Rappahannock River in Virginia. The area is extremely popular as a retirement community with many active adult communities either recently or in the process of being built. The population increased by 5,000 from 2010 to 2018 - from 24,200 to 29,200. There is a 40-block national historic district in the city's…...
Denver, Colorado, the "Mile High City", offers just about every type of living arrangement, recreational opportunity, and cultural program that an active adult could want. All of this is in an unusually beautiful setting with the Rocky Mountains towering overhead. The City and the County of Denver has over 715000 residents (2020), and about 2.4 million in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan…...
Choosing Seattle, Washington as your retirement community has many advantages. You get a walkable downtown with great public transportation. Many apartments and homes overlook harbors, lakes, parks, and mountains. Great boating, skiing, hiking are all at your doorstep, as are many cultural programs. Opportunities of every description for paid work or volunteering are all around you. Seattle (population 737,000 in…...
Thomasville, Georgia, the City of Roses, can be an interesting retirement community in cotton plantation country. The surrounding countryside can be quite beautiful, although one cannot say that about all areas of town. It does offer a reasonable cost of living. The active brick-paved downtown has been restored with live oaks draped in Spanish moss, magnolias, antebellum homes, and fragrant…...