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SummerOnTheWay1
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March 13, 2024

👴👵 Find Out if the Rust Belt Is Right for Your Retirement (AARP Article)

  • March 13, 2024
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ANYONE MOVED BACK TO THEIR "HOMETOWN" TO RETIRE OR LEFT FLORIDA OR WANT TO MOVE TO FLORIDA?  🤔  WELL, I AM LIVING IN "BOTH" FLORIDA AND VIRGINIA WHILE I "VERY SLOWLY" MOVE BACK TO FLORIDA. RETIRED!  😎
 
FROM THE ARTICLE - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE.
 
Is the Rust Belt Right for Your Affordable Retirement?
 
Older industrial cities tout low-cost housing, revitalized downtowns to draw back retirees with local roots.
 
By Michael Anft, AARP. Published March 13, 2024.
 
When a couple of financial adviser Ryan Carney’s clients grew tired of retirement living in Florida last year, they picked up stakes and returned to their old hometown, the Sunshine State’s polar opposite: Buffalo, New York.
 
Low living costs, well-established health care facilities, a downtown makeover and proximity to Niagara Falls have helped make the Rust Belt city on Lake Erie more attractive to retirees like them, despite its lake-effect snowstorms and subzero temperatures.
 

https://www.aarp.org/retirement/planning-for-retirement/info-2024/rust-belt-retirement.html

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    Tempest332
    Community Champion ⭐
    March 18, 2024

    The rust belt better be, as here I am stuck.   My house has been paid off for years, yet not increased in significant value to allow me to sell & freely buy elsewhere.  Not necessarily a bad thing, but again not a great thing.  

     

    Not everyone's retirement is happy joy, joy..  fun in the sun, playing golf daily, cards at the club in Coconut Creek with your friends, visiting the grandkids, deciding what color your new Lexus will be, or several yearly vacations. You have to.....

     

    SummerOnTheWay1
    Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
    March 18, 2024

    📎   Lol @Tempest332 , it's been awhile and I am VERY OLD = is that Oscar?  🤔

     


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    The rust belt better be, as here I am stuck.    Not everyone's retirement is happy joy, joy..  playing golf daily, or cards at the club in Coconut Creek with your friends, visiting the grandkids, several yearly vacations. You have to..... ***]


    Tempest332
    Community Champion ⭐
    April 17, 2024

    At least you weren't stuck in the Rust Belt!