Retirement Places Rated [With Maps]

by David Savageau

Book Overview

Whether you're considering retirement or scouting out the best location for a second home, Retirement Places Rated is an invaluable sourcebook. More than a quarter of a million people have turned to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028620844
• ISBN13: 9780028620848
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Retirement Places by Savageau

The book ranks retirement places from the first to last according to numerous categories including overall quality of life, safety, services and climate. For instance, dry climates may be found in Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Cloudy states are Oregon, Virginia, Montana and Vermont. Snowy winters are in Idaho, Colorado, Vermont and Maine. The most safe areas are portions of Georgia, Virginia, Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina and some areas of NYS. Services for seniors are best in Florida, North Carolina, New Mexico, New Hampshire and Vermont. Leisure sports are most prominent in NYS., MASS, Florida, California and New Mexico. Overall quality of life issues are strongest in Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Florida and Arizona. This book has a goldmine of ideas for the quality of living enthusiasts, as well as persons who are cost conscious. The book is reasonably priced for the value of information provided. Of course, you should always visit any locality on the potential list of retirement places. A retirement is a major investment of money and resources for any person or couple. Investigate before you make a final decision to invest.

Well Worth Your Effort

IF you are willing to devote the time and care to studying this book, THEN you will be rewarded with not only a clear way of thinking about retirement living, but a solid methodology to use in finding 'your best place'. Good reading and good luck!

Can't wait for next update!

Though this book is currently from 1999, it still contains useful information. Having a sense of what you need, and the kind of life you'd like to life will help you to understand why's the book is organized as it is.

Almost everything I wanted to know

This book is filled with facts and figures about numerous retirement possibilities. I like the quantitative nature of the book, but wish there was more on the people and lifestyles of the different cities.

Quantitive ratings provide good information

The beauty of the book is that Savageau's rankings are both (a) quantative, reducing the chance for the author's personal preferences to affect the ratings, and (b) pretty well explained: you know how he came up with the ratings. It's unlikely that your own list does not include several in Savageau's group. Since he explains the basis for each location's standing in each category (there are seven), the reader can make his/her own judgements if a particular factor is of less interest to that reader than it is to the author. In fact, a sort of interest quiz in the first chapter helps the reader understand which factors are more important to him/her. This armed, the reader could use the approach to his/her own list of places. Other books of this genre tend to lean heavily on opinion and seem to get a lot of input from the chamber of commerce. That's not a problem here.