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