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America’s Most Affordable Places to Retire
by Maurna Desmond
Thursday, September 4, 2008
A significant number of Americans will soon retire, but many won’t be looking so much for a place to settle down as to live it up.
That’s what they’ll find in Columbus, Ohio. This river city tops our list of most affordable places to retire, thanks to reasonably priced housing relative to income and a 4.5% inflation rate that allows a buck to stretch a little further than other quickly growing areas. With tens of thousands of Ohio State Buckeyes, folks will enjoy the verve and energy that comes with a bustling college town.
Cynthia Rickman, a spokesperson for the Columbus Department of Development, says Columbus attracts retirees because the community is walkable and has a low-cost of living. What’s more, empty nesters are migrating in droves from the suburbs to the city�s recently revitalized downtown.
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- Short North is 22nd Best Place to Retire in the US
I think this is obvious if you just take a look at German Village or Commercial Point.
or Bollinger.
or Bollinger.
Very funny!
Really? I’ve never heard anyone call it that before. :lol:
That article was all over the place. It read like a conglomeration of my posts over a three day period. It also called Columbus a college town!
All the cities they mentioned seemed like great places to retire, minus Nashville. I know there are a lot of old people, but when I was in Nashville I was just straight up bored! It’s a pretty slow town.
I’m from Nashville and I wonder where you went there? It is not slow at all compared to Columbus IMO.
We were downtown. There was only a strip of bars and then a Hard Rock Cafe…aside from that, we really didn’t have much to do! Maybe I needed a “Nashville Underground” to help me find all the fun places ;-)
Walker and I drove through there recently and they had like five carriage rides going on! We thought it looked like a city worth going back to to visit. not so much?