Find The Best Place

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Find The Best Place (NAPSA)—An estimated 40 million Americans will be 65 or older by 2010. If you are one of the many planningto retire and looking to relocate, one book can help ensure that you makethe right move. Completely revised and updated, “Retirement Places Rated, 7th Edition” (Wiley), by best-selling retirement author David Savageau, includes detailed statistical profiles of 200 retire- HEU=MeNyy ment places in PLAGSS si\pse) more than 40 Plan the Retirement You Deserve states. S avageau toa pices <2 uses the follow ing seven factors rete "to rate and rank the areas: cli- @ mate, the econ- omy, available services, ambience, costs of living, housing, and personalsafety. The chapter on housing includes data on shelter choices (homes, condos, apartments and mobile homes), as well as homeprices and property taxes. To determine “ambience,” Savageau relies on each area’s historic preservation, water recreation, protected scenic and recreation areas, restaurants, bookstores, and fine-arts options. Assessment tools, easy-to-read charts and graphs, interpretive commentaries by the author, and extensive appendixes will help you find the best location to fit your lifestyle. The book also provides a personalized quiz to help you determinethe factors that are most important to you, as well as information on additional resources—from newspapers to tax commissions. The book is available in all major bookstores and online at www.frommers.com.