| If you fancy moving to a top-notch location | | | | |
| to retire, this article is a must-read. In | | | | 10. Ocean Pines, Maryland |
| its recent report, identified the top cities | | | | |
| across the U.S. favored by the senior | | | | The top city to retire in, Gardnerville |
| residents. The website analyzed the cities | | | | Ranchos, Nevada, is surprisingly a small |
| that had the fastest growing senior | | | | community located a few miles southeast of |
| populations and came up with the most popular | | | | the beautiful Lake Tahoe. The community is |
| retirement havens. | | | | famed for its natural beauty and is within |
| | | | 4-hour drive from San Francisco, San Jose and |
| Bizjournals took into account cities that had | | | | Sacramento areas. Gardnerville Ranchos saw an |
| experienced a rapid growth in the population | | | | amazing population growth of 45 % in five |
| of senior residents in the last 5 years. The | | | | years, between 2000 and 2005, among senior |
| study compared 938 markets in eight | | | | residents. This growth rate is nine times |
| statistical categories to make the list of | | | | that of the country's population growth rate |
| the top retirement communities of America | | | | of 5 % for senior citizens. The city has 19 % |
| which included beaches, mountains, small | | | | of residents who are in the age group of 65 |
| towns and big cities. | | | | and above, which is much higher than 900 of |
| | | | the 937 other markets that were reviewed in |
| The top 10 hottest places to retire in | | | | the country. |
| according to Bizjournals are: | | | | |
| | | | These top 10 cities to retire indicate that |
| 1. Gardnerville Ranchos, Nevada | | | | senior citizens prefer the Sunbelt; with all |
| | | | these areas located in the South and |
| 2. Punta Gorda, Florida | | | | Southwest. Another interesting fact is that |
| | | | the retirement cities in the top 10 list |
| 3. Pahrump, Nevada | | | | range from small to medium sized with the |
| | | | largest being Punta Gorda, Florida having a |
| 4. Crossville, Tennessee | | | | population of 1,57,500 and the smallest, |
| | | | Brevard, North Carolina with just 29,600 |
| 5. Homosassa Springs, Florida | | | | residents. |
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| 6. Sebring, Florida | | | | Although the Sunbelt attracts the seniors |
| | | | from the Eastern and Midwestern with its warm |
| 7. Del Rio, Texas | | | | weather and quality of life, other locations |
| | | | such as the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and |
| 8. Brevard, North Carolina | | | | the Great Lakes region are also gaining in |
| | | | popularity among the retirees. |
| 9. Georgetown, South Carolina | | | | |