Retire At Home Or Abroad?

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The U.S. shopping can't be beat. But oh, that Italian food.

Forbes used many criteria to create our list of the Ten Best Retirement Havens, everything from the process of getting a visa to the ease of coming back to the U.S. to visit family. Along the way, we consulted experts, drew on other global rankings and used our own judgment. The table below offers an additional perspective: How select U.S. cities compare with our foreign choices in well-regarded rankings produced by two consulting firms.

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The Pros and Cons of Working After Retirement

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Not everyone wants to, or can, stop working at retirement age. Some opt to work on even though they could retire; others need to for the money. What are the pros & cons?


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Make Plans To Keep Busy During Your Retirement

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While the average age of retirement in the U. S. has grown progressively older, due much in part to Social Security rules, improvements in health maintenance have allowed many retirees to have more years to enjoy after they end a career. These years can be used to do the things that you love to do. If you plan on retiring, you will want to make plans to keep you active for those best years of your life.

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Retirement Choices Should Include Health and Activities

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I have been astounded by the predominance of advice on the internet for retirement planning, investments, real estate and every other form of advice where someone can make some money out of it.

While what is remarkably lacking is the thought that maybe people who are retiring might just want to worry about pursuing another 30 or more years of an active and healthy lifestyle.

Obviously retirement planning should have a strong focus on the financial aspects but if you are not in good health both physically and more importantly mentally, retirement tends to start looking a lot less attractive.

The phrase Use it or Lose it has real relevance here.

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Plans To Keep Busy During The Retirement Years

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While the average age of retirement in the U. S. has grown progressively older, due much in part to Social Security rules, improvements in health maintenance have allowed many retirees to have more years to enjoy after they end a career. These years can be used to do the things that you love to do. If you plan on retiring, you will want to make plans to keep you active for those best years of your life.

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What retirement means for women

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What issues do women face in retirement? Many of us are baby boomers retiring within the next 10 years. Most of us work fulltime away from home, juggling home and work responsibilities and looking forward to the time when we can quit working. Our retirement, though, will offer more options than just “not working.” Our generation is creating the “new retirement”, an active retirement offering many different options. So what does this “new retirement” mean for women?

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Middle boomers create their own paths

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Maria Palacios, 55, has reached a point in her life when she has just the right balance. Three days a week, she works as a CPA in her own business from her Miami home. The other two, she cares for her grandson Gabriel, who lights up when he sees grandma come through the door with her play calculator.

Getting to this point took endurance. It required going to school, raising two kids and forging a career path, while relying on a patchwork of child care. But now that Palacios sits comfortably in her mid-50s, she's part of a demographic group that has researchers intrigued. Called middle boomers, this group is a whopping 29 million strong and has entered its 50s with a shift in priorities.


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Some Fun Ideas For Retirement

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If you are thinking about retiring then you probably are feeling both excitement and nervousness. While most who retire do not want to work in a regular job anymore, they do not want their lives to stagnate. If you want to remain active during retirement you can use the ideas below to help you get there.

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The retirement city where people work

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Fewer people are saving for retirement. The Employee Benefit Research Institute released its annual retirement confidence survey this week. Almost 30 percent of the nation's workers have less than $1,000 set aside for their golden years. A majority has less than $25,000 socked away.

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Job market creates reluctant retirees

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Paul Skidmore is hesitant to call himself retired. The former insurance claims adjuster in Finksburg, Md., was laid off in February 2008 and has been job hunting for more than a year. Although at 62 Skidmore is old enough to begin drawing Social Security, he doesn't want to permanently leave the work force.

"On the one hand, my brain is telling me go look for a job," says Skidmore, who originally planned to retire at age 66. "On the other hand, why bother? Just retire."

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6 Reasons to Become Your Own Boss after Retiring

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What are your plans for retirement? Do you plan to relax in a comfortable chair, drinking tea, and watching the trees dance to the wind? Do you plan on reading all the books you have postponed because of lack of time? No? That’s actually a very good choice.

When they retire, most people wish to remain as active as before, with a little twist… they want to remain active while doing what they love. This is why many decide to start a business; they’ve got the time, the energy, the experience, and some money.

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Retiree jogs entire length of Route 66

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Tired of looking for things to do in his retirement, a 71-year-old Illinois man decided to go for a jog on Route 66 — all 2,448 miles.

Emory Duick started out on June 2 at the intersection of Jackson St. and Michigan Ave. in downtown Chicago where Route 66 begins. After 202 days and more than 2,000 miles, he is passing through Victorville and Hesperia this week on his way to the Santa Monica Pier, where the highway ends.

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The Retirement Chronicles

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A blog written by a retired woman, sharing thoughts about her family, marriage, gardening, bird watching, and photography. She talks about daily life observations with humor and heart. The blog also focuses on gardening and nature photography, which are passions of hers. She invites others to read and follow her blog as a "follower" and to become part of the party....comment and she comments back to you too!

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Bankrate Releases 2010 Retirement Guide

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Bankrate's 2010 Retirement Guide takes a look at the landscape and how consumers can make the most out of saving for retirement

NEW YORK, March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As the unemployment rate begins to fall and many Americans find their way back to jobs, it's important to think about retirement options as soon as it's financially feasible. To provide a roadmap on what to expect, Bankrate.com presents its 2010 Retirement Guide. This year's guide helps consumers at all stages of retirement planning

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COSTA RICA: Headhunting First-World Seniors

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SAN JOSÉ, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS) - The Costa Rican government has declared retirement communities, aimed at attracting U.S. pensioners, to be "of national interest." Plans to create "retirement clusters" providing complete health services for older adults are seen as a profitable prospect for this Central American country.

Old people as a business: this is the bottom line of the government and private sector's new project.

Noting the rapid development of the "health cities" in Mexico and Panama, Costa Rican officials and entrepreneurs are poised to tap into the perceived gold mine among middle and upper-middle class senior citizens of industrialised countries.

The concept is simple, and includes slashing red tape to the minimum by providing one-stop residence permits at the Migration Directorate, so that foreigners, especially the well-heeled, can come to live in the country.


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E-Retirement System on the Way?

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Modernizing the federal government's retirement system, including moving from paper to electronic records, has long been a priority of the Office of Personnel Management. But as I reported back in 2008, modernizing the system has not been without its challenges.

Alex Parker writes at Government Executive that OPM is moving quickly to fix glitches within the current system while also working towards the creation of new electronic retirement system.

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Why I Never Want To Retire

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I guess I can be thankful to the economy for making me understand that I do not ever want to retire. I graduated in 2008 December and I am still searching for work. Until October I was immersed in my CPA studies. However, right after that, I retired. At the very least, I experienced what it is like to be retired.

Most people associate retirement with not working anymore and engaging in activities that you really like. On top of that, by the time you are retired you do not have to worry about paying a mortgage,or a car loan. It seems that all there is left is to receive your pension and social security payments and enjoy life. Seems like a pretty good deal, right?

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Retired Baby Boomers, Retired Veterans and Our Active Senior Citizens Would Enjoy the Benefits of Volunteering Their Time

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Most people think of senior retirement as a time to plan on doing all the fun things that they had to forgo because of the demands made on them by their job. However, there are an increasing number of baby boomers who view retirement as a time when they can contribute to the society, and seek opportunities to perform volunteer work.

Over the years, many of the retiring baby boomers have acquired knowledge and skills that may be helpful to others. So some retirees find volunteering a source of incredible fulfillment. This will give an elderly senior purpose and a new meaning to life.

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No cake for you: retirement age and “rights”

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As an actuary who has worked with annuities, I pay very close attention to stories about retirement age.

Before I get into the recent news stories, I want to address the old canard “The life expectancy was less than 65 when 65 was set as a retirement age.”

I’m not saying that they got they’re flat-out lying with this remark, but that they’re looking at the wrong number.

Let me give you an example – a population where everyone dies either at birth [age 0] or at age 100. Life expectancy would be a weighted average between these two numbers, depending on the probabilities. Let’s start at a 50/50 extreme, and you’ve got a life expectancy of 50 years from birth. If the infant mortality is at 1%, then the life expectancy becomes 99 years. But the problem of financing retirement doesn’t change at all — if you survive infancy, you live to 100, no matter the probability.

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