Anonymous wrote:

Charlottesville will not work (I am a Hokie)

Seriously? You're nearing retirement and you still give a crap about college rivalries?

What I would want in a retirement community is enrichment activities, decent climate, good medical, and low cost of living.

Ithaca is great, but too cold (lived in a neighboring city for 10 years).

Blacksburg would work for me (I am a Hokie, but I am unsure of the medical care).

Charlettsiville will not work (I am a Hokie)

I am guessing a place like Old Miss or Tuscolusa AL would be ok for some, but I am too jewish.

Austin sounds nice, but it is not cheap, from what I hear.

LaJolla, CA would be perfect if the cost of living was reasonable.

I am 50, and it looks like I might need to transition my career soon -- my industry is dying due to DoD budget cuts.

California's taxes are not favorable to retirement incomes.

Anonymous wrote:Ithaca sounds great. I love cold, snowy winters, especially if I don't have to go anywhere. I'd go for Portland, Maine, too, just by the sound of it.

Portland is a great city, with a couple of schools (U. Southern Maine and U. Maine Law School), but I would not call it a college town.

Isn't retirement to a college town too cliche?

anyone? do you think they'll hate us? the college students that is.

Providence RI

Chapel Hill, NC
Ann Arbor (might be too cold)
Williamsburg is full of old coots, according to my friend who lives there

Anonymous wrote:Ithaca sounds great. I love cold, snowy winters, especially if I don't have to go anywhere. I'd go for Portland, Maine, too, just by the sound of it.

If you live in Ithaca, you hear weather reports from Rochester and Syracuse and think you have it relatively good.

The airport isn't great, and while day-to-day healthcare is fine, you'd have to go to a larger town for advanced medical care (friends' parents have had to deal with problems from dental implants to brain cancer and had to travel for it).

Fort Collins Colorado

Austin is awesome but the weather stinks (extremely hot and humid, frequent droughts). I would point out, though, that it's much more than a college town -- it's the state capital.

Ithaca sounds great. I love cold, snowy winters, especially if I don't have to go anywhere. I'd go for Portland, Maine, too, just by the sound of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Ithaca, NY

Nice town....Very nice in the summer, but brutal winters. However, if you can handle the cold, it would be a great place to retire to.

Gorgeous winters! They plow the streets! And if you are retired, and not forced to head out to work, stay home with you food from Wegman's and get the fireplace going!

Ithaca also has a Kendal retirement community, and they are great (also locations in Oberlin, Lexington VA, Hanover, Chicago . . . . they build in a lot of college towns).

Anonymous wrote:Davis, CA - super close to Napa, San Francisco & Tahoe (45min-2hr drive to these destinations)

Davis is a hell hole, as is nearby Sacramento. Most of Berkeley is run down. The nice part of town is insanely overpriced. Santa Barbara and San Diego are much nicer college towns.

Burlington, VT.

Middlebury, VT.

Hanover, NH

Williamstown, MA

Swarthmore, PA

Madison, WI

Ithaca, NY

Ann Arbor, MI

Middletown, CT

Davis, CA - super close to Napa, San Francisco & Tahoe (45min-2hr drive to these destinations)