Best Boomer Towns Blog

Welcome to Best Boomer Towns

You are a Boomer if you were born between 1946 and 1964. You are stylish, active and resourceful. You are searching for less stress and more living, you may be an empty nester, you prefer less traffic, fewer taxes and more fresh air and exciting activities! There are no rocking chairs in your future - you prefer pilates, hiking, biking, volunteering, wine club, book club, university classes, surfing the web, telecommuting, yoga, golf, tennis, walking your dog and plenty of social activities. Grab your Blackberry or iPhone and schedule your week! I think it’s important for you to have a face, name and credentials on the site. Fourteen months of Boomer research and development have been compiled in one site to meet your needs. The 21 U.S. towns have the following key criteria: excellent health care, university, airport access, fine dining, low crime, cultural activities, beautiful weather, active lifestyle, average cost of living and a range of home sizes and prices.

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State Property Taxes

Property taxes remain the biggest source of revenue for most county and municipal governments throughout the U.S.  However, the basis for assessing such taxes and the specific rates will vary greatly.

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Baby Boomers For Your Parents - Senior Safe Premium Stair Lift

When you think about the SeniorSafe® Premium Stair Lift, think about today’s Baby Boomers who are taking care of their older parents, who might not necessarily have severe mobility limitations, but have difficulty safely or easily negotiating stairs. Why should they move out of their home just because they can’t easily or safely use the stairs?

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The Hard-boiled Pulp Renaissance

It was a time of tough guys and dangerous dames. Fedoras, bootleggers, jazz clubs and organized crime were the keywords to a way of life that was at once titillating and repugnant. The era was as hard-boiled as the tough, unsentimental and gritty prose that graced popular magazines like Black Mask.

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Baby Boomer Summer Birthdays

Baby Boomer Summer Birthdays to note -
Actor and Activist Sean Penn is 50 on August 17
Beatle’s Ringo Star is 70 on July 7 (older than a boomer)
Glee Star Jane Lynch is 50 on July 16
Huffington Post Liberal Arianna Huffington is 60 on July 15
Actor David Duchovny is 50 on August 7

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10 Trends Powering the Age Boom

Baby boomers have always been active and educated individuals. Think 1960’s protests, yoga, pilates, surfing, walking, highest percentage of voters, Jane Fonda aerobics craze and yes, the new exercise is pole dancing. Boomers will not be sitting around in retirement. In fact boomers are the reason why we have all the universities and highways in the U.S. They are smart, active and on the move. Boomers love to travel whether by airplane or automobile. Take a look at the top 10 Trends Powering Boomers from Mary Furlong and Associates.

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Ten Tips for Dog Park Etiquette:

When you take your best pal (like me) to a dog park be sure and pay attention to the signs and note the following Ten Tips.

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Best Retirement Planning Web Site, RetirementRevised.com

Money Magazine Ranked RetirementRevised.com as Best retirement-planning website run by syndicated columnist Mark Miller, the site offers everything from health care news to Social Security guidance—even job-hunting advice for people unable or unwilling to ditch work completely.

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Presto Letterbox, It’s Magical!

We set up the Presto Mailbox for my parents last week - now they can receive emails and photos without logging into a computer - they love it and so do we. A New Kind of Mail Not having email means your Mom is left out of all the online communication that happens in your family. If you had an easier way to communicate with her, you could send her messages and photos more regularly so she would never miss a thing.

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ASHLEY FORCE HOOD ‘NEWSMAKER’ GUEST ON RACE REPORTERS RADIO SHOW;  WED, MARCH 17 ET

Ashley Force Hood, the first woman to win drag racing’s most important Funny Car event and one of America’s most popular drivers, will be the Newsmaker of the Week on The Race Reporters radio show, Wednesday, March 17, 7 p.m. EDT, on http://www.PowerUpChannel.com.

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