Best college towns - to retire to

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Anonymous wrote:Austin!!! But then, I'm a peri menopausal alternative person with a leftover piercing from law school. YMMV

Clearly your peri menopause doesn't feel like mine. I was thinking maybe Madison. An Austin summer with hot flashes would kill me and all who got in my way.

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State College - we own a house there now and spend +/- 2 months a year up there.

Will probably end up spending 8-9 months in retirement and the rest someplace warm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:State College - we own a house there now and spend +/- 2 months a year up there.

Will probably end up spending 8-9 months in retirement and the rest someplace warm.

Creepiest place on earth.

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Perfect.

Glad I won't see you there.

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Anonymous wrote:Perfect.

Glad I won't see you there.

+1. My mom is retired there and having the best time of her life. I visit anytime I can.

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I am amazed how many people consider New England for retirement. I moved from up north and won't go back if I can help it. Also, why college towns? What exactly is the attraction?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Austin!!! But then, I'm a peri menopausal alternative person with a leftover piercing from law school. YMMV

Clearly your peri menopause doesn't feel like mine. I was thinking maybe Madison. An Austin summer with hot flashes would kill me and all who got in my way.

I'll go to Madison with you.

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Anonymous wrote:I am amazed how many people consider New England for retirement. I moved from up north and won't go back if I can help it. Also, why college towns? What exactly is the attraction?

Why college towns? They attract an educated population and generally inquisitive crowd, so it's not a massive cultural adjustment if you're leaving the DC area, many universities offer free/cheap continuing ed classes for retirees, and because they offer lots of diverse cultural amenities - museums or other art space, theater, restaurants....

I dearly hope to move to a New England college town in a few years, just before DCs enter kindergarten/first.

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Anonymous wrote:State College - we own a house there now and spend +/- 2 months a year up there.

Will probably end up spending 8-9 months in retirement and the rest someplace warm.

Creepiest place on earth.

seconded - and i'm an alum. i would never want to go back there.
yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State College - we own a house there now and spend +/- 2 months a year up there.

Will probably end up spending 8-9 months in retirement and the rest someplace warm.

Creepiest place on earth.

seconded - and i'm an alum. i would never want to go back there.
yuck.

Willing to bet just about anything that you are not an alum.

I have never met an alum who feels this way. Not one.

[Anonymous]

Bloomington IN

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State College - we own a house there now and spend +/- 2 months a year up there.

Will probably end up spending 8-9 months in retirement and the rest someplace warm.

Creepiest place on earth.

Where is the town of "State College"? I've never heard of it, but it sounds creepy, like Stepford.

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Anonymous wrote:I am amazed how many people consider New England for retirement. I moved from up north and won't go back if I can help it. Also, why college towns? What exactly is the attraction?

We are considering it b/c we have a 6 yr old and want a bucolic, New England, rural but close to college towns childhood for DC. Also, there are excellent schools there. Also, we are buying an apt in NYC - Manhattan - for us.

Admittedly, we would not be retiring to New England but for our kid. I went to college in New England in the area we are considering for retirement and wasn't too thrilled with it when I went to college there.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State College - we own a house there now and spend +/- 2 months a year up there.

Will probably end up spending 8-9 months in retirement and the rest someplace warm.

Creepiest place on earth.

seconded - and i'm an alum. i would never want to go back there.
yuck.

Willing to bet just about anything that you are not an alum.

I have never met an alum who feels this way. Not one.

PP you quoted.

how much are you willing to bet? i hope you are one of the HHI 7 figure, ward 3 bitches - i'll bet your family's entire net worth that i'm an alum.

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Anonymous wrote:Austin!!! But then, I'm a peri menopausal alternative person with a leftover piercing from law school. YMMV

Clearly your peri menopause doesn't feel like mine. I was thinking maybe Madison. An Austin summer with hot flashes would kill me and all who got in my way.

Seniors love Madison. They like to audit all the classes, sit by the lake, and go to the weekly Farmers Market.