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If they move at all.

Information coming from  AARP shows that seniors tend not to move,but if they do they relocate to a smaller city that resembles the city they came from, just a more  accessible version. My parents relocated to coastal Carolina as it allowed them the same amenities of the region they left with the  access to a college town, beaches, and year round golf.

“That’s the national myth. The reality is … most people don’t move,” she said. “Community is incredibly important to our older citizens. They feel connected to their community.”
A quieter part of a major metropolitan area anchored by a large city, often in a warmer climate, is a popular relocating-retiree choice.
“Generally, people are moving from metropolitan counties where there are dense populations to other metropolitan counties that are less dense,” said Ron Manheimer, director of the University of North Carolina’s Center for Creative Retirement in Asheville, N.C.
Seventy-one percent of people age 60 and over who have relocated to another state in the five years leading up to the 2000 Census settled in metropolitan counties, Manheimer said, citing statistics from a forthcoming book that he edited: the second edition of “Retirement Migration in America,” by Charles Longino.
These days, the county’s top county for new retirees is Maricopa County, Ariz., which includes Phoenix. In that five-year period, almost 69,000 people 60 and over settled there.
“People want all the amenities of the big city; they just don’t want to live in it,” Manheimer said, noting that the availability of shopping, major airports, cultural attractions and medical services figure into the decision on where to relocate.

Read the rest at the Real Estate Journal .

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