For decades, the retirement script for northerners was simple: You worked in your home state, then you moved to Florida. That script is changing. More retirees are looking past Florida and pointing their moving truck toward Texas, and the reasons have less to do with barbecue than with the math on a fixed income. Here’s…
More retirees are leaving Florida than at any point in decades, and a lot of them aren’t going all the way back north. They’re stopping halfway, in what movers and real estate agents call the halfback states. Think the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. They’re close enough to keep the mild winters but far enough…
Nobody thinks it will happen to their family. Then a parent starts guarding their phone or buys a stack of gift cards and won’t say why. These could be the fingerprints of a scam in progress, and they show up long before your loved one’s savings disappear. Here are the signs your senior loved one…
The 1980s were the golden age of the chain restaurant in Georgia and throughout the United States. Not in the quality sense, necessarily, but in the cultural sense. Many of the restaurants that defined the ’80s dining experience are gone now, either bankrupt, absorbed into holding companies and diluted beyond recognition, or simply closed without…
You open the mail, and there it sits: A check with your name on it, or a prize you don’t remember entering. Your pulse ticks up out of excitement. That reaction is the whole point. Scammers mail these letters by the million because enough of them land to keep the presses running. Older adults reported…
You don’t have to flee to Florida or Arizona to retire well. Some of the best-value retirement towns in the country sit right here in Pennsylvania. These towns are winning over retirees who ran the numbers and decided to stay in the Keystone State. Here’s where they’re putting down roots. Note: This is general information,…
You can set your calendar by it. The temperature dips up north, and the next thing you know, your sleepy neighborhood Publix is buzzing with folks who say “pop” instead of “soda” and call a cart a “carriage.” Bless them. Georgia loves a snowbird. We just can’t help noticing a few… habits. Here are the…
The 1970s didn’t disappear all at once. Things faded out quietly, one by one, until Coloradans turned around and realized the whole decade had packed up and left without saying goodbye. Here’s what went with it. S&H Green Stamps and the Catalog of Things S&H Green Stamps were given out at gas stations and grocery…
For decades, the deal was simple: You could pay no income tax and enjoy affordable living in exchange for humidity and hot summers. Northerners came running. Unfortunately, the trade doesn’t pencil out like it used to. Home insurance alone can run five figures now. Add condo assessments, climbing HOA dues, and car insurance near the…
The first sign is the sky. That flat, bruised gray that rolls in off the Gulf while the news anchor points at a swirl on the map and says the word everyone dreads. By then, the shelves at Publix are already bare, and gas station lines are wrapping around the block. You don’t want to…
