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Where To Spend Retirement

The retirement dream usually starts before or shortly after earning that first paycheck. During the next 30-40 years, the dream is refined and reimagined while ensuring the finances are there for the vision to become reality.

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Let’s face it, we aren’t our parents’ retirees. Whatever the new term for the Golden Years, choosing how and where to spend retirement is an individual experience. Downsizing, moving to be closer to grandchildren, finally taking those big trips, giving back, enjoying beautiful weather year-round, or learning something new — the options are endless. The only hurdles: imagination and our pocketbooks.

Latest Stories

ExpatAmerican Expats: Which Countries Have the Largest Number?
Boot Ranch Golf Course
Retiring In The U.S.13 Popular Retirement Communities in Texas Where I’d Love To Live
Playa de Las Teresitas in northern Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Canary Islands13 Pros and Cons of Living in the Canary Islands After Retiring
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Retirement Locations

Retiring in the US

Retiring In The U.S.Can You Live In National Parks? | Ways To Work Or Retire In a National Park For Free
Middle-aged couple stretching their calf muscles on a park bench.
Retiring In The U.S.How Boomers Are Blazing Their Own Retirement Paths
Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Retiring In The U.S.Why I Decided To Retire In Massachusetts
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Retiring Abroad

La Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion de Cuenca in Ecuador
Retiring Abroad9 Surprise Life Lessons We’ve Learned As Expats In Ecuador
The beach in Panama
Retirement Locations6 Important Lessons I Learned Moving Abroad In Retirement
Placencia beach resort on the Caribbean coast of Belize
Retiring Abroad16 Top Countries To Retire Abroad In 2023
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Meet the Experts

Get to Know Our Retirement Experts

Steve Parrish, JD, RICP
Steve Parrish, JD, RICP

With an over 40-year career as an attorney, financial advisor, executive, and professor, Steve brings a wealth of experience in dealing with retirement and estate planning issues. He uses his position as the Co-Director for the Center for Retirement Income at The American College of Financial Services to pass along current information and new ideas for people contemplating — or experiencing — retirement.

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Nan Ives
Nan Ives

Nan Ives co-founded The Future of You to help people find the same sense of fulfillment and purpose as they had throughout their careers while still enjoying all the perks of being retired.

After working for 27 years in various leadership roles at Fidelity Investments, Nan thought she understood retirement — until she retired. She decided to use her passion for design thinking to immerse herself in the experiences of people planning for and living in retirement. Nan wanted to learn how people in retirement recapture a sense of purpose and strike the right balance of work, giving back, family, and fun.

Nan and her co-founder created a 4-step process to help you design your next chapter. In 6 weeks, The Future of You will take you from wondering what to do with your newfound free time to waking up with purpose, excitement, and a renewed vision for your new life.

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Joy Fletcher, CPT, TBMM-CES
Joy Fletcher, CPT, TBMM-CES

Joy is a Certified Personal Trainer, Senior Exercise Consultant, and co-owner of Agile 4 Life Fitness, where she teaches live online fitness classes and personal training to seniors. Her career as a fitness expert has spanned more than three decades. She has worked in hospital-based cardiac rehabs and weight management and designed fitness programming that has helped hundreds of men and women improve their overall health and fitness.

As a senior herself, Joy’s mission is to bring creative, fun, and science-based exercise programs to older adults so they can stay strong, active, and independent while living full lives on their own terms without the aches and pains of normal aging.

Since moving to Oregon, Joy spends her free time exploring her new surroundings, doing some remodeling, gardening, playing amateur photographer, and trying new recipes. She loves dabbling in computer design and plans on going back to pencil drawing when she starts slowing down.

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