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Hi my kids are done with education. I am retired and looking to move to lower my payments. I do like the east coast (except Flordia). Where are most of the people relocating too. I was looking at Ocean View Delaware in a 55+ gated community with clubhouse pool etc. What are the pros and Cons. Any help would be great.
Thank you
We looked at Delaware, nothing bad to say except nothing great for retired 'active adults'.
Traffic around Middletown was crazy due to poor infrastructure planning. Too far from shopping malls for my wife.
We enjoyed it much better in southeast NC, and will move in next month.
thanks for your responses Slade51 you picked on another state I was looking at NC. What were the best towns? I was looking at Cary but not sure. Do you have any advise on NC thank you.
I worked with someone who lived in Wilmington NC for a while and said there were a lot of northeast transplants there. You might want to make sure where ever you end up if you stay on the east coast shore that you don't end up in a summer community that turns into a ghost town the rest of the year.
thanks for your responses Slade51 you picked on another state I was looking at NC. What were the best towns? I was looking at Cary but not sure. Do you have any advise on NC thank you.
We wound up in Brunswick Forest in Leland, my wife liked all the clubs and programs they offer. We started our search around Cary until we found that it was cheaper to live near the coast. That's mainly because there are more jobs in the Raleigh - Charlotte area.
But we are retiring so didn't need that. The beach towns might thin out in the winter, but Wilmington is right over the bridge for us.
Take advantage of the discovery packages that the developments (called plantations down there) offer. We contacted a realtor that set everything up for us.
We looked at Delaware, nothing bad to say except nothing great for retired 'active adults'.
Traffic around Middletown was crazy due to poor infrastructure planning. Too far from shopping malls for my wife.
We enjoyed it much better in southeast NC, and will move in next month.
thanks for your responses Slade51 you picked on another state I was looking at NC. What were the best towns? I was looking at Cary but not sure. Do you have any advise on NC thank you.
I was on vacation in Oak Island last summer and went to an arts and crafts show in Southport, a beautifully quaint little town nearby. This is on NC's southern coast (look on a map) in the Cape Fear area.
They told me that there is a large development called St. James Plantation that the locals call St. Jersey because of all the NJ retirees there.
Further, as I began posting my vacation sunsets and sunrises on Facebook (because you can see both by the water on a southern-facing beach), I got hellos from two fellow retirees from where we used to work, who informed me that I'd passed the development where both live to get to where I was.
Personally I see zero appeal for retirement in the mid-atlantic. If you enjoy hot summers, and cold winters on a 1/5 acre yard with no views and nothing to do except a few strip malls and a couple chain restaurants then go for it! Its seems like a great place to spend your golden years miserably.
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