Retirement Places Rated: What You Need To Know To Plan The Retirement You Deserve

Profiles of 200 retirement areas in more than 40 states

In this completely revised and updated edition, the top retirement areas are ranked and rated by seven essential criteria to help you make the right choices for your lifestyle:

The best places to enjoy the performing arts and the outdoors

The most reasonably priced places to live, including information on owning, renting, and retirement communities

The most stable and comfortable climates

The safest and most crime-free areas

The best in health care, shopping, continuing education, and other services

The best opportunities for employment

Only in "Retirement Places Rated":

A personalized quiz to help you determine the factors that are most important to you

Additional resources you can contact to make the most informed choices, from newspapers to tax commissions

The bestselling guide to the best places to retire in the United States.

Completely revised and updated, Retirement Places Rated is an indispensable reference for the estimated 40 million Americans who will be 65 or older by 2010. Dividing the United States into 18 regions and 200 cities, towns, and counties, retirement quality-of-life expert David Savageau draws a detailed statistical portrait of each locale, ranking each for cost of living, climate, crime, services, employment opportunities, and leisure and recreational amenities. A rundown of the top 30 overall retirement places along with assessment tools, easy-to-read graphs and charts, interpretive commentaries by the author, and extensive appendices help retirees evaluate their relocation choices and make the right move.

For the seventh edition, new features include: 22 new places A new chapter on housing, with data on shelter choices (homes, condos, apartments, and mobile homes), plus home prices and property taxes An expanded ambience chapter, and new data on age, education, politics, and diversity An expanded services chapter, with new data on air travel, physician specialties, and hospital services Easy-to-use relocation resources, including Web sites, addresses, books, and other information David Savageau Washington DC has traveled throughout the country since 1982, visiting locations that attract older adults. He wrote the "Quality of Life" column for Expansion Management magazine, and has been a featured speaker at the U.S. Department of State's quarterly seminars on retirement.