| There are so many Best Places to Retire Lists, but I | | | | some isolated resort areas like St. George, Utah, are |
| think I have found the key to what people are | | | | also popular. |
| looking for in retirement places. Looking at the | | | | If you manage a city and you want people to retire |
| searches being done on my website helps a little to | | | | there, make it first a vacation spot. People like to |
| know what people are thinking--they are not thinking | | | | retire in places they feel comfortable in; a place they |
| traffic, noise and pollution, for one thing. If you are | | | | can call home, and they usually find it by vacationing |
| not staying in your long time home for retirement or | | | | there first. There aren't too many real adventurers |
| downsizing and retiring to a community nearby, what | | | | when it comes to retirement places from what I can |
| are you looking for. | | | | see. |
| The most popular requests on my site are for the | | | | All those best places to retire lists need to cover |
| places that we already know about. There isn't much | | | | those areas thoroughly because people do not want: |
| unusual or surprising. Most of the searches are for | | | | sprawling areas where people are commuting back |
| communities and senior housing in Florida--not a very | | | | and forth to work and producing heavy traffic, cold |
| big surprise. Here are a couple more not-big surprises: | | | | weather or polluted air. |
| Arizona, Southern California, and Washington state. | | | | Once in awhile, there is someone who expresses |
| Here are some areas of secondary interest: the | | | | what we all are thinking when it is time to retire: Like |
| Northeast, areas like Tennessee and Arkansas, | | | | this phrase typed into the search engine: "quaint |
| presumably because known as low-cost areas. Beach | | | | places to retire." That sums it up for a lot of us. |
| and resort areas like Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and | | | | Enjoy my Best Places to Retire List on my website. |