Retire Downtown

Retire Downtown
Author: Kyle Ezell
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0740786571

Are you a Ruppie? More and more people are trending toward living downtown. Author Kyle Ezell demonstrates how empty nesters can live out their golden years full of fun and independence in the midst of the city. Ruppies--Retired Urban People--are cropping up all over the country. The populations of city downtowns are exploding nationwide. Also known as active retirees, Ruppies are quickly becoming a big part of that population. Downtown living can help them stay active both physically and mentally while keeping them entertained in the process. After all, there's always a live theater or jazz band playing right around the corner. Author and noted city planner Kyle Ezell has assembled information on living downtown, shopping, eating at exciting new restaurants, getting around, staying active, downsizing to one car, volunteering, keeping faith alive, and much, much more into Retire Downtown. Retire Downtown lists the top 20 cities for Ruppies across the nation, with a wealth of facts on each area and a breakdown of each environment. Learning how to locate the right downtown neighborhood in which to live, and discovering art galleries, cool hangouts, coffee shops, and farmers' markets, as well as the unique and trendy ethnic shops, are all exciting parts of Ezell's book--a must-have for every up-and-coming active retiree!

Retire in New York City - Even If You're Not Rich

Retire in New York City - Even If You're Not Rich
Author: Janet Hays
Publisher: Bonus Books
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2002-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781566251754

This is not your parents' retirement. With this book as your guide, you can embark upon an active and often exhilarating retirement in the most fascinating city on the globe. If you've enjoyed visiting, imagine what it's like to live there. Retire in New York tells how you can take an active part in the artistic, theatrical, intellectual, and political life of the city. Tourists go to shows, operas, and museums. But New Yorkers can get behind the scenes: talk with playwrights, watch dance troupes rehearse, and visit the studios where artists are perfecting their crafts.

Where to Retire

Where to Retire
Author: John Howells
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1493043676

Where to Retire offers the best advice not only on where to relocate in the retirement years, but why people should pick up and move just as life is settling down and provides well-researched and completely revised and updated information on how to find the ideal home base for the retirement years. To help the decision-making process, the book offers a list of items to consider when selecting the ideal community: safety; climate; housing availability; cultural and recreation opportunities in the area; social compatibility; affordability; medical care; distance from relatives and friends; transportation; and jobs and/or volunteer opportunities. It gives readers clear snapshots of life in hundreds of the most affordable, comfortable, and stimulating places to retire in the United States, including locations in Florida, California, the Pacific Northwest, the Gulf Coast, the Ozarks, the Appalachians, the Southwest, and the Rockies. It’s a must-have guide that helps readers decide where to retire happily.

Resilient Downtowns

Resilient Downtowns
Author: Michael A. Burayidi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134071264

Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for cities seeking to rejuvenate their downtowns for decades there is disquiet among downtown managers and civic leaders about the versatility of the program. Resilient Downtowns provides communities with the "en-RICHED" approach, a four-step process for downtown development, which focuses on residential development, immigration strategies, civic functionality, heritage tourism, and good design practice. Examples from fourteen small cities across the US show how this process can revitalize downtowns in any city.

Can I Retire Yet?

Can I Retire Yet?
Author: Darrow Kirkpatrick
Publisher: StructureByDesign
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989283021

You've worked hard, lived carefully, and saved diligently. You've reached major milestones and accumulated more assets than you dreamed possible, and yet you hesitate. ""Can I retire?"" This book will help answer that question by showing you.... The tools you need to live a secure and independent retirement, without worrying about money What you must know before leaving a career behind How much it will cost you to live in retirement, and how to manage your cash flow The current choices for retirement health care, including lesser-known but effective options The threat from inflation: two secrets that politicians and bankers will never admit A realistic assessment of the impact that income taxes will have on your retirement Social Security's role in your retirement: when you should claim and how much it's worth to you How to construct and manage an investment portfolio for income and growth in retirement About immediate annuities and why you need multiple sources of retirement income The key variables and unknowns in your retirement withdrawal equation Reviews of the best retirement calculators, and tips for how to use them accurately Beyond the simplistic 4% Rule to the latest research on safe withdrawal rates Realistic bracketing of your retirement savings needs, without over caution or overconfidence The history of economic cycles and the related asset classes for optimal retirement security A survey of strategies plus original research for how to orchestrate your retirement distributions A practical "retirement fuel gauge" alerting you to problems while you still have time to act Backup plans: the "lifeboat strategies" for ensuring you'll never be without essential income The 6 crucial questions to answer before you can retire The one, simple, powerful, non-financial reason that you can and should retire earlier than later

America's 100 Best Places to Retire

America's 100 Best Places to Retire
Author: Elizabeth Armstrong
Publisher: Vacation Publications Incorporated
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2002-09-12
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780964421691

This book blends highly readable personal accounts with essential statistics on climate, cost of living, taxes, housing costs, crime rates, and health care.

Scenescapes

Scenescapes
Author: Daniel Aaron Silver
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2016-09-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 022635699X

Setting the scene -- A theory of scenes -- Quantitative flânerie -- Back to the land, on to the scene : how scenes drive economic development -- Home, home on the scene : how scenes shape residential patterns -- Scene power : how scenes influence voting, energize new social movements, and generate political resources / with Christopher M. Graziul) -- Making a scene : how to integrate the scenescape into public policy thinking -- The science of scenes / with Christopher M. Graziul)

Where to Retire in Florida

Where to Retire in Florida
Author: Richard Fox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1999-02-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780964421660

Florida attracts more retirees than any other state--450,000-plus during the latest census. Many times that number are currently considering such a move. This new edition will top their reading lists. Fact-filled profiles of the state's top 99 towns for retirement are enlivened by witty and candid evaluation from the authors.

Choose the Pacific Northwest for Retirement

Choose the Pacific Northwest for Retirement
Author: John Howells
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008-08-13
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0762751835

This is the comprehensive guide to have if considering retirement in the Pacific Northwest. From real estate to weather statistics, this guide will empower you to help you make such an important life decision.