Locations other than Florida or California

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Mggs11

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Where would you say a lot of seniors live other than Florida,or California?
 

NYC has had such a balmy winter, I'm expecting the planting of palm trees! Got some great beaches, too. All I have to do is wait.....hope I have the time.
 

I live in rural Virginia. It's almost all seniors too old to have kids. Young people have to leave to find work and to find other young people. I miss young people. Many seniors leave too, just to be closer to a hospital or a graveyard. Sounds depressing on paper, but I wouldn't trade it.
 
We lived in Arizona for 14 years in Sun City West, which is a Del Webb 55+ community. It is mostly private homes, a commercial area with most everything you need. There is a full size hospital and more than 100 clubs and groups, 4 recreation centers with indoor and outdoor pools. The Mexican border is a day trip away. A lot of the residents are escapees from Kalifornia. There are a number of retirement communities in that area just west of Phoenix.

We missed the gulf beaches, so we came back to Florida.
 
Manatee said:
We lived in Arizona for 14 years in Sun City West, which is a Del Webb 55+ community. It is mostly private homes, a commercial area with most everything you need. There is a full size hospital and more than 100 clubs and groups, 4 recreation centers with indoor and outdoor pools. The Mexican border is a day trip away. A lot of the residents are escapees from Kalifornia. There are a number of retirement communities in that area just west of Phoenix.

We missed the gulf beaches, so we came back to Florida.
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Manatee...were you guys among those that left Florida because of the hurricanes? Have a friend In Pembroke Pines that had a lot of those around her area move to Arizona...heard that some have moved back. Now the issue is getting affordable insurance coverage in her area. Her insurance went up 50%!
 
Have often heard that Sun City Arizona is the original Fun City
Ruthanne said:
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Arizona. We lived there for almost 10 years and couldn't stand it another minute. So many transient retirees and not many were friendly if you had different ideas or opinions other then theirs. We got tired of seeing nothing but rocks and dust. We missed the change of seasons, trees and green grass and being able to live near lakes to go fishing in the summer so we moved back to PA.
 
A lot of seniors have made my town of Chatham Ontario the place they retire to. Many are snowbirds, but most are not. They came from the bigger cities such as Toronto.

You should see Seniors Day at the drug store ;)
 
NorthernLight said:
I never understood those "4 seasons" folks.
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When I was in Quito, a city right on the equator they were having fall sales in the stores, it was late September. I asked and was told that of course they had 4 seasons, just the same as in the US. Then I asked how the weather changed and was told not at all, same year round. But they still believed they had seasons, Christmas in Winter etc... So I guess seasons are relative.

However I sure like the weather in what we call summer a whole lot better... could live with that alone very happily.

Oh, I was in Manila once in December and the stores were having winter sales, same thing I guess...
 
NorthernLight said:
I think she meant they go to somewhere else for the winter.
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I think you are right, growing up in Florida I think of snowbirds as people who come down for the winter, I know they have to come from somewhere.

When I lived in northern Florida a lot of our snowbirds were Canadian, out winters were not as mild as further south. However our prices were lower, and beaches a lot less crowded. Still pretty mild winters compared to anything Canadian.
 

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