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 wellresearched and completely revised and updated information on how to find the ideal home base for the retirement years. To help the decisionmaking 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 andor 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.