Where to Retire, 4th (Choose Retirement Series) - Softcover

John Howells

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762706562 ISBN 13: 9780762706563

Publisher: Globe Pequot, 2000

Synopsis

Finding the ideal home base for your retirement years is a crucial decision. It is also a decision that can be confusing if you know you want to move but aren't sure where to look, or what to look for. In this well-researched and completely revised and updated guide, retirement guru John Howells gives the best advice not only on where to relocate in your retirement years, but why you should pick up and move just as life is settling down. Where to Retire provides guidance in the form of clear snapshots of life in hundreds of the most affordable, comfortable, and stimulating places to retire in the United States. This guide contains carefully researched, up-to-the-minute information on where you can live graciously, yet affordably, recreation opportunities to fit every lifestyle, the ideal climates for your health and budget as well as where to find the best health care.

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Review

When the joints start to ache, the salary dwindles, and freedom is yours at last, it's time to reflect upon where you'd like to spend your retirement years. Your obligations are few and the world is your oyster. If you're approaching those golden years, John Howell's guide to retirement living is a boon. It's not about retirement communities, it's about the towns and cities of the United States--what they offer the senior citizen in terms of recreation, culture, health care, and lifestyle; what to expect from their weather; and how much it costs to live in them. Howells investigates the relative tax burdens of each state, looking at property taxes, sales taxes, and whether each taxes pensions and Social Security. He also ranks the cost of living for housing, groceries, and utilities; provides the daily high and low temperatures; and lists the amounts of rain and snowfall across the seasons. From Georgia's Valdosta (population 40,000 and nicknamed "Azalea City") to Washington's Bellingham (18 miles from Canada, views of the San Juan Islands to the west and Mount Baker to the east), Howells paints portraits of more than 150 communities and their surroundings. Doubling as a guide for exploratory vacations and a pointer for anyone looking for a better place to live, Howells's research answers all the relevant questions. --Stephanie Gold

About the Author

John Howells has been a Linotype operator, English teacher, silver miner, and a travel and feature writer. He lives in Pacific Grove, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Globe Pequot
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0762706562
• ISBN 13: 9780762706563
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 384