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Living in Retirement: Where to now?
Living in Retirement: Where to now?
Increasingly, I've been helping seniors downsize from their family home to a condo or townhouse. Some clients are excited and some are apprehensive, which is understandable. It's a new stage, a new beginning and certainly not the last chapter.  I wrote a little about my interpretation of an "in between" stage of life in a blog post, We Need to Come up With a Name for This New Stage in Life.  I imagine a simplified life where I have very little cleaning with a smaller home; surrounded by only the things I love because there's limited space; leaving my home for extended periods of time, not worry about leaving my house unattended and the ongoing work and expenses to maintaining a single family, detached home. Ah, simple. 
So where to?  There are so many options depending on the lifestyle you seek in your retirement and if you do it alone. The suburbs are wonderful if you enjoy walking in park settings, lengthy lunches where no one is waiting impatiently for a table or worry about scheduling around traffic or parallel parking your car downtown. But is it right to ward off loneliness of the single retiree?
 
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