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For 7th year in a row, Asheville is TopRetirements.com Best Place to Retire

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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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TopRetirements.com has just published its latest list of the top 100 towns to retire to. Number one, and number one since 2007, is Asheville.

From TopRetirements.com:

As has been the case since Topretirements published its first list in 2007, Asheville, NC is the #1 town, receiving 15 times as many page visits as Franklin (TN), which squeezed onto the list in the #100 position with 1,000 page visits. Asheville’s reputation as a great place to retire, its mountains, gentle 4 seasons climate, and recreational/cultural opportunities all make it the standard that all other retirement towns can aspire to. Sarasota (FL) once again occupies the #2 spot, while Austin (TX), Venice (FL), and Prescott (AZ) retained their 3 and 4 and 5 rankings. Naples (FL) and San Antonio (TX) climbed into the top 10 this year at the #7 and #10 positions respectively. Paris (TN) and Green Valley (AZ) slipped out of the top 10 to make room for them, although both are still in the elite 15.

Our Criteria

Topretirements.com, “Where Baby Boomers Go to Find Their Best Place to Retire”, has published its 100 most popular list annually since 2007. It is important to note that our list uses criteria that are quite different from most other lists. Our list is essentially a popularity contest; it reflects the towns that visitors to this “find your best place to retire” website are most interested in for retirement. The list was compiled by calculating the 100 towns that receive the most online visits of the 900+ cities reviewed at Topretirements.com during the last 6 months of 2012. Some towns probably make the list in a given year because they were featured in one of our weekly newsletter, or their review was was recently added. Others leave the list in the face of stiffened competition.

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Here’s the full top 20:

1. Asheville, NC
2. Sarasota, FL
3. Venice, FL
4. Austin, TX
5. Prescott, AZ
6. Beaufort, SC
7. Naples, FL
8. Ft. Myers, FL
9. San Diego, CA
10. San Antonio, TX
11. Tucson, AZ
12. Paris, TN
13. Fairhope, AL
14. Portland, OR
15. Green Valley, AZ
16. Charlottesville, VA
17. Clearwater, FL
18. Charleston, SC
19. Sedona, AZ
20. Orlando, FL

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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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5 Comments

  1. Sam November 8, 2013

    How sad for you

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  2. Abraham Lincoln February 28, 2013

    noooo, those zombies drive too slow!

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  3. NFB February 27, 2013

    hauntedheadnc totally nailed it.

    Thank you.

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    1. hauntedheadnc February 27, 2013

      Thanks, although my post also sounded a bit like ESL itself. I was posting from a smartphone, which has a tendency to insert punctuation and breaks where there need not be any. I should have proofread it before posting.

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  4. hauntedheadnc February 27, 2013

    That website reads as though it was written by someone for whom English isn’t their first language. No, is Asheville a retirement town? It isn’t in the sense that Hendersonville it, with literally nothing else underpinning the economy, but we don’t exactly do such a bang-up job strengthening our economy either. We love it when people, either tourists or retirees, come from somewhere else with money. All that ever does, though, is perpetuate the cycle of low wages and high prices that ensure that Asheville’s biggest export, year after year, is its young people. I would urge a close look at how Hendersonville has utterly mismanaged its growth and strive to do the opposite. I would also urge a look at how imported, bitter old Republicans poisoned Hendersonville’s politics and strive to avoid that also. In short, retirees are nice until you become Hendersonville, with its mountains buried under a dense, protective layer of subdivisions and with a political climate that despises anyone who isn’t old, rich, white, straight, and Republican.

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