Books
- America's 100 Best Places to Retire (America's 100 Best Places to Retire)
- America's 100 Best Places to Retire, Third Edition: The Only Guide You Need to Today's Top Retirement Towns (America's 100 Best Places to Retire)
- Worldwide Ship and Boat Repair Facilities: Shipyards, Repair Yards Adn Dry Docks (Foreign and U.S.A. Companies): 1 (Pelletier, James Laurence, Mariner's Directory & Guide (Series), V. No. 1.)
- Offshore Oil Platforms - Rigs - And Offshore Oil Support Vessels, Owners, Operators and Managers (Mariner's Directory & Guide , Vol 3)
- Deep-Draft Vessel Owners, Operators and Managers, Fishing Vessels - Shallow and Deep-Draft, Yachts Sail & Motor (Mariner's Directory & Guide , Vol 5)
- Deep-Draft Vessel Owners, Operators and Managers (Mariner's Directory & Guide , Vol 7)
- New Radiance Metaphysical & Holistic Florida Directory
- New Radiance Metaphysical & Holistic Florida Directory: Statewide Directory of Body-Mine-Spirit Professionals and Organizations Since 1990
- The Angler's Yellow Pages: Your Silent Fishing Partner 1997
- Finding a Preschool for Your Child in San Francisco
- Take Your Pet Too!: Fun Things to Do!
- How to Buy Stocks Factory Direct and Save
- CareerXroads: The Directory to Job, Resume and Career Management Sites on the Web (Careerxroads: The Directory to Job, Resume & Career Management Siteson the Web)
- Careerxroads 2001: The Directory to Job, Resume and Career Management Sites on the Web (Careerxroads, 6th ed)
- Careerxroads: The World's Leading Reference Guide to Job and Resume Websites (Careerxroads: The Directory to Job, Resume & Career Management Siteson the Web)
- The Golfers Reference: Dictionary Illustrated (The Golfers Reference)
- Casino Player's Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Where and How to Play in America's Casinos
- 300 Incredible Things for Sports Fans on the Internet
- 300 Incredible Things for Travelers on the Internet
- 300 Incredible Things for Health, Fitness & Diet on the Internet
- 300 Incredible Things for Auto Racing Fans on the Internet (Incredible Internet Book Series)
- Healthinform's Resource Guide to Alternative Health: An Annual Directory of Information Sources on Alternative and Complementary Therapies
- Have Dog Will Travel: Comprehensive Guide To Over 2,200 Dog-friendly Accommodations
- Have Dog Will Travel Northwest Edition: Oregon-Washington-Idaho, Hassle-Free Guide to Traveling With Your Dog
- Adoption Directory
Average customer rating:
- How do you rate a place?
- 100 Best Places to Retire
- Left a little to be desired
- I have found this book less than useful
- Almost as good as the previous edition
|
America's 100 Best Places to Retire: The Only Guide You Need to Today's Top Retirement Towns
Manufacturer: Vacation Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Aging
| Personal Health
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
Aging
| Aging Parents
| Parenting & Families
| Subjects
| Books
Retirement Planning
| Aging Parents
| Parenting & Families
| Subjects
| Books
Directories
| Catalogs & Directories
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Health Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
Look Inside Parenting Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
Look Inside Reference Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
Similar Items:
- Retirement Places Rated: What You Need to Know to Plan the Retirement You Deserve, Sixth Edition
- Retire in Style: 60 Outstanding Places Across the USA and Canada
- America's Best Low-Tax Retirement Towns: Where to Move To, and From, to Slash Your Taxes in Retirement!, Second Edition
- Where to Retire, 5th: America's Best and Most Affordable Places
- Where to Retire, 6th: America's Best and Most Affordable Places (Choose Retirement Series)
Accessories:
- Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator (AED)
- philosophy hope in a jar daily moisturizer
- RESPeRATE Blood Pressure Lowering Device
- Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers
ASIN: 0964421690 |
Book Description
This book blends highly readable personal accounts with essential statistics on climate, cost of living, taxes, housing costs, crime rates, and health care.
Customer Reviews:
How do you rate a place?.......2006-06-25
Some towns seem to have a permanent place on the sweetheart lists of books dedicated to relocation and retirement. It is unusual to see such books without Charlottesville, Virginia, Branson, Missouri or Grand Junction, Colorado and indeed these locales, along with 97 others, fill the pages of AMERICA'S 100 BEST PLACES TO RETIRE.
This is a helpful book, but not an indispensable one. A good half of the towns or counties listed here are also in the 203-item RETIREMENT PLACES RATED (2004), which uses statistics far more than AMERICA'S 100, and generates competitive rankings. AMERICA'S 100 does, though, look at its places in a great deal more detail. An info box in each chapter, alphabetized by town name, offers brief stats as to climate, hospital beds, major housing developments and the like, as well as contact lists for the various Chambers of Commerce or whatever other agency is responsible for promoting each place. This brings in some objective data into what otherwise is a subjective process.
But the bulk of each chapter is given up to a narrative description of each particular place's "vibe" and a series of interiews with residents who relocated there either in middle age or during retirement. These are almost always middle-class couples with enough money to spend on middle-rank (or above) housing, or the wherewithal to build their own. Those interviewed will be a mix of people from the same region and those from far away, who fell across their new communities through a combination of research, personal recommendations, and plain old serendipity--stumbling across it on vacation, say. Together with the info box, such narrative discussions average three pages per town, or the equivalent of a medium-sized magazine article (no photos, though). I did feel, though, that many of these (admittedly subjective) town descriptions were quite boosterish; if any of these places is saddled with a rotten economy or a soaring crime rate, you're not likely to hear about it here.
Perhaps the most useful--or at least most enjoyable--aspect of AMERICA'S 100 is its listing of ten "Top 10" towns from its ranking, using categories such as "Best Budget Towns," "Best Beach Towns," "Best College Towns," and so on.
One caveat--America teems with the retired and soon-to-be retired. Therefore the housing costs in this book, which are at least four years old, may be fairly on the mark in some instances but woefully understated in others. One solution is to contact the chamber of commerce listings, where your address will inevitably be passed on to local realtors, most of whom belong to the local C of C. AMERICA'S 100 doesn't overwhelm the reader with its number of locations or hard data, but it does its best to convey the real feeling, the experience of living in each place.
100 Best Places to Retire.......2006-02-27
Excellent referral information and explicit for cost, weather, local features, and amenities
Left a little to be desired.......2006-02-17
This book could have done a little better job in giving information. If you were interested only in the best places to retire in order it is good. However, I would have liked more information than what was given.
I have found this book less than useful.......2005-04-27
I have owned two books on "places to live" -- this one on retirement and another on general living areas, thus I have a good basis for comparison. This book on retirement is mostly anecdotal and insufficient to make an adequate factual comparison among the various cities and towns. Why did the editor leave out the average cost of living for several of these cities, for example? My other book had numerical ratings for all sorts of critically important categories like weather, access to colleges and universities, health care and hospitals (public and private), public transportation, indoor and outdoor recreation, the arts, state sales taxes, state income taxes, property taxes, housing costs, general cost of living, etc. The editor of this book includes some of this information but it is not consistent and not in any type of graphical or rating form so it is impossible to compare the various cities, which is what we are inclined to do if we are choosing some place to retire. Another caveat: I think every book on retirement should have big bold letters printed on the cover, in red: WARNING!! NEVER COMMIT TO A NEW CITY UNLESS YOU RENT THERE FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS!! Based on just a few vacation visits to our chosen retirement town, plus information from this book, we spent two months renting, found and bought a house and have regretted it ever since. The glowing and gushing tales quoted about city and town life from every corner of the country in this book can be countered by equally dark tales of horror (we have more than a few about Whidbey Island, WA). So do you see why I think those human interest stories that fill the book are truly useless in helping you choose your final destination? I also lived for five years in Ojai, CA, one of the editor's favored towns, and I wouldn't want to be buried there, much less step foot there ever again. What is one woman's hell is another's paradise. A book of dull yet solid statistics would have been much more useful, in my humble opinion. Oh, wait, I have just the book you need, easily ordered from Amazon! Try "Cities Ranked & Rated" by Bert Sperling and Peter Sander, 2004. No meaningless subjective blather from gushing residents, just the facts, ma'am. Try it, you'll like it!
Almost as good as the previous edition.......2003-10-05
The change of authors from the second to third editions coincided with the publisher's decision to eliminate crime rate statistics from the compendium of worthwhile data in the latest volume. These stats were held to be skewed because of population fluctuations in popular vacation destinations, and that omission is unfortunate. The good news is that the articles are interesting, and the interviews that form the basis for these descriptions do much to bring each spot to life. This remains one of several good books to have at one's disposal.
Average customer rating:
- This book is very helpful
|
America's 100 Best Places to Retire, Fourth Edtion: The Only Guide You Need to Today's Top Retirement Towns (America's 100 Best Places to Retire)
Elizabeth Armstrong
Manufacturer: Vacation Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Essays & Travelogues
| Reference & Tips
| Travel
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Travel
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Travel Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
Similar Items:
- Where to Retire, 6th: America's Best and Most Affordable Places (Choose Retirement Series)
- Cities Ranked & Rated: More than 400 Metropolitan Areas Evaluated in the U.S. and Canada
- Retirement Places Rated: What You Need to Know to Plan the Retirement You Deserve, Sixth Edition
- Retire in Style: 60 Outstanding Places Across the USA and Canada
- Choose the Southwest for Retirement, 3rd: Retirement Discoveries for Every Budget
ASIN: 0978607708 |
Product Description
From the editors of Where to Retire magazine, America's most authoritative source of information about retirement towns and developments, comes accurate and reliable help for all those seeking a great new town for retirement. Completely updated, the fourth edition is fact-filled with statistics on population, climate, cost of living, housing costs, taxes, education, transportation, health care and more. Because facts and figures alone can't capture the beauty, personality or public spirit of a town, there are interviews with people who have relocated to each town, telling what retirement in their new hometown is really like. Included among the 100 are the editor's designations of the nation's 10 best towns for art, lakes, beaches, colleges, mountains, lower-cost living, small towns, undiscovered towns and main streets.
Customer Reviews:
This book is very helpful.......2007-05-13
Easy read with a lot of good information about various retirement areas. The best information has to do with taxes and health care. I do question why some of the people who already live in one of the 100 best places to retire are highlighted as moving to another one of the best 100 places to retire. It does make one think.
Average customer rating:
- Where is the rest?
- Too much anecdote, not enough facts
- A fresh start?
|
America's 100 Best Places to Retire
Manufacturer: Vacation Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Retirement Planning
| Aging Parents
| Parenting & Families
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Regions
| United States
| Travel
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Travel
| Subjects
| Books
Directories
| Catalogs & Directories
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
Similar Items:
- America's 100 Best Places to Retire: The Only Guide You Need to Today's Top Retirement Towns
Accessories:
- philosophy hope in a jar daily moisturizer
- Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers
ASIN: 0964421674 |
Book Description
In depth profiles of the 100 best cities and towns for active and fulfilling retirement lifestyles, as chosen by the editors of Where to Retire magazine.
Customer Reviews:
Where is the rest?.......2005-06-30
America is the whole Western Hemisphere from Greenland to Argentina. I find it strange that every single one of the top 100 places to retire in America are in the usOFa.
Too much anecdote, not enough facts.......2001-07-19
This book looked rather like the author decided to make a trip around the country and stopped in at a number of towns to interview people. Based on the interview, he decided whether this was a great retirement place. While some statistical facts are presented, there is little to substantiate "Joe and Velma's" statement that "this is a really nice place to live". I know several of the places included and had a great deal of difficulty understanding how some of them got into the book (and why some others were left out).
A fresh start?.......2001-05-19
Good overview of 100 locations picked by logical categories:
Ten best Seaside Ten best lakeside Ten best college town Ten best low cost Ten best mountain, etc.
Naturally there is a great deal of subjectivity: I have always been highly sceptical of the Pseudo-scientific approach taken by the "place rated" books.
Interesting to hear from locals; unfortunately continuity and judgement is lost by using different people for each town.
Useful for anyone planning a retirement move.
Books:
- Folio's Medical Directory of New York Upstate, 2000
- Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World and US Volunteer Opportunities
- Star Guide: Where to Contact Over 3200 Movie/TV Stars & Other Famous People (2000-2001) (Star Guide: Where to Contact Over 3200 Movie/TV Stars & Other Famous People)
- The Thomas International Photo Directory of Antique Cameras
- The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Pacific Coast States: California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii (Used Book Lover's Guide Series)
- America's 100 Best Places to Retire (America's 100 Best Places to Retire)
- The Network to Home Repair and Decorating Services
- The Blue Book of Canadian Business 2000 (Blue Book of Canadian Buisness, 2000)
- The U.S.A. Comprehensive Public Camping Guide: Delaware, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey
- Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures: v. 7
Books