South Bend called one of the best places to retire

[Bob Andrews]

Unfortunately, not one mention of Studebaker history :/

http://www.aarp.org/home-family/your-home/info-09-2013/best-places-to-retire-social-security.3.html

[candbstudebakers]

Is there really 782,000 people in Grand Rapids, Mich.??

[dpson]

I don't know who writes these things, but when I retire Grand Rapids, South Bend and Erie, Pa won't be on my list. It will be some place warm.

[8E45E]

I don't know who writes these things, but when I retire Grand Rapids, South Bend and Erie, Pa won't be on my list. It will be some place warm.

That will also be my #1 consideration when that time comes for me.

Craig

[AKAchamptrucking]

I don't want to retire here and I live here!

[AKAchamptrucking]

"down at the heels image" Really? What rust belt surviving city dosen't have some of that?!?

[Bob Bryant]

Lived in Michiana for 23 years and then Florida for 20 years. Been here 6 years and they have had a long tough winter by CT standards. Why am I looking at the atlas again! Just kidding as I like New Englsnd...especially when it is not winter.

[DEEPNHOCK]

I don't want to retire here and I live here!

These kind of surveys/ad's always are suspect to me.
Why would AARP make a list like that?
Wonder what their membership penetration is in those areas?
If property values are a driving factor, then everyone should be flocking to Detroit in droves.
Go figure....

[SN-60]

With a median home price of $82,500, moving to South Bend makes financial sense for some people. Personally, I enjoy living here in New England, where one can experience the 'Change of Seasons'

[plwindish]

After the snow we have had in Chicagoland this winter, I'm looking south of here to retire. South Bend gets a good deal more snow than we do near Chicago and with the lake, it piles in there a lot quicker.

[Bob Bryant]

After the snow we have had in Chicagoland this winter, I'm looking south of here to retire. South Bend gets a good deal more snow than we do near Chicago and with the lake, it piles in there a lot quicker.

Agree on the lake effect snow after living in the Michiana area for 23 years. One year there was heavy wind and snow and drifts 6-8' deep. Michigan front-end loaders came and lifted the snow as plows couldn't push it. Two weeks before we could get out. A neighbor had a snowmobile and took orders. It was kind of funny at the time. First three priorities---milk, beer, cigarettes.

There are many nice areas around South Bend and in the city, also. Quality of life can be good, but winter does come. When we left for FL in '88 I threw away the snow shovel. Arriving in CT in 2008 I bought another!

[58PackardWagon]

They forgot to mention the high crime and run down neighborhoods.

[sweetolbob]

They forgot to mention the high crime and run down neighborhoods.

There's a rumor going around that Florida has them also!!

[Bill Pressler]

There's a rumor going around that Florida has them also!!

Who doesn't like warmer weather, but for me, that won't be a reason to up and move 1,000 miles or something.

I'm a curmudgeon, increasingly, about crowds and too many people. I figure, a square mile is a square mile wherever one lives, but if you have to share it with fewer people, you might be happier.

I wouldn't mind moving back to my hometown (population 5,900), which has had its challenges but I swear, I bump into more people I know there than where I've lived since 1991! It's because there are fewer people.

[DieselJim]

I don't want to retire here and I live here!

I retired in '06. Low house payment, low taxes. Got a 100 year old farm house. 21/4 acres. A 25x30 man cave. Can't afford to move. We usally snow bird. Stayed home this winter. Wrong.