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Message: [QUOTE="Kitaman, post: 2911653, member: 67"] I'm contemplating on my future retirement home and I can't find anything that 'appeals' to me. CT has a bad rep for retirement, but I'm less than 4000 ft from the Ocean, can go to Boston or DC in less than a day and still have time to do stuff upon arrival, have 5 international airports near me within 90 minutes, can reach NYC in an hour or by train, 4 seasons (not really a winter fan), etc . Any concert or event is only a car\train ride away. Now I'm not selling CT as an ideal retirement destination, but I will say I've seen retirees in other states and they don't have a lot of day time choices other than golf. I just love the Ocean and if I do move out of State it will be on the east coast. I'm also starting to realize that I like being around people, so I want to be in/near a populated city/town. If a retiree is bored here they can find a little part time gig, volunteer or hang out around town. As for the warm weather, I can get a winter place down in FL for 3 months, or travel and go to Mexico, AZ, and other places like my 85 yr old Amherst resident father does 6 weeks each winter. Oh I also want to add CT is pretty safe from natural disasters, but the traffic in the Southwestern part of the state is fugly. And of course what would I do without my UConn? Just saying the NE has a lot of options, when it comes to finding something to do on a daily/weekly basis, not so in other States. [/QUOTE]