Top 10 Places for Swinging Single Seniors to Retire

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Perhaps senior singles will have to create their own cities. I love the beach and mountains so perhaps central California; not too hot or cold; nice variety of scenery; more educated, refined people. AZ is swingin with hot seniors; however I could not stand the 100+ AZ weather; ditto with Orlando; the beach towns in FL are much cooler and less muggy/buggy than the FL interior. However, not the Villages community that is overcrowed and overdeveloped ard full of old grumps and ingroups of boring and offensive old jocks just like high school all over again. So, perhaps NC or Texas. I love nature and birds. So perhaps joining a bird watching group and following the birds from north to south and back. Anything positive that single older people like to do.

Merl of MD 10:45PM October 30, 2011

I relocated from Seattle to San Diego about 10 years to be closer to my aging parents. By all outside factors it seemed to be ideal option, but as I look back I realize I've never felt so empty as I have in these past years. Lack of intellectual curiosity ..wow! I'm a people person, single, mid 50's and not bad looking. But how do you meet real people here? If I don't want to get skin cancer by hanging out at the beach? All I can recall about Seattle is maybe because it did have different weather, people gathered together indoors and spent more time sharing themselves conversationally. Is that why facebook has rocketed?? Does anybody really care?

Gypsi Eyes of CA 1:19PM February 11, 2011

What is so very, very wrong about this advice?
“Try some activity that you are not very good at and ask for help,” advises Gray. “Men bond with women more easily when they are doing something to help the woman.”
In other words, "Women, play dumb...let the Big Man be the Big Man?"
I certainly do hope that other women are more self-respecting than to think that this idea will attract a relationship that will make them happy!
John Grey is a victim of the 50s....and not an intelligent one....

san jose of CA 11:48PM October 20, 2009

I couldn't take the heat in Florida anymore and am spending the summer in The Jersey Shore Area. (Bored Here)
Where is a great city for single (58) people to live? Please, no Sun City, etc. Not my cup of tea.
I'm searching for a place where I can hear some great music and there are some fun, lively singles1

Kathryn of NJ 4:34PM July 27, 2009

I have lived in San Diego for eight unhappy years. By the time my "Fixer upper" condo was ready to be put on the market, there was no market! So I'm stuck here until I can sell my condo for as much as I paid, including improvements.
Kathy, I agree about the weather here, the best in the U.S.. But that and the ocean and close proximity to hills/mountains is all. The people that are friendly are also flakey They don't follow through on committments,not talking about living together, more like a phone call. It's difficult to find people that are interested, or even aware that forty-nine other states exist, much less other continents. For most, the weekend starts sometime before noon on Fridays, even if their jobs don't. I learned the first year or so, not to try to reach anyone if I needed information or any kind of help, just wait for Tuesday. Mondays aren't too good either, employees are recovering from their three day weekend. The lack of intellectual curiosity is astonishing! The last complaint that I will mention is that one must be wealthy to partake of the arts or any cultural endevors.
Brian, I also appreciate the attributes you mentioned about Hawaii. But don't you miss the lack of culture, or for that matter, the lack of intellect? It'seven worse than San Diego!
Waiting for the housing market to return. Lilli

Lilli 2:59PM June 23, 2009

what drug wars?what crime rate? want the magic of santa fe,w/out the expense? try san miguel allende,mexico.beautiful cheap homes, resturants,artful entertainment,all very very reasonable.frendly expats in the town square.no im not a real estate agent.taxes are laughable.no eathquakes,hurricanes,floods,wild fires,riots,etc. downside,for gringos its like the gay 90s, everyones gay and ninty.beautiful young mexicanas though.

jamesinmx 9:01AM June 23, 2009

While Santa Fe, NM is indisputably one of the nation's "artistic capitals" -- with an endless array of arts and cultural opportunities, and a friendly, beautiful, historic and unique capital city -- it is probably among the least likely places for mature heterosexual women to meet a love interest.
The number of beautiful, educated, spiritual, single middle-age women far exceeds their male counterparts. (I know, as many of my real estate clients over the past decade have been these women moving from major metropolitan areas) who are drawn to the arts, climate and "magic" of Santa Fe, but are often disappointed by the lack of "eligible" men.
According to the Santa Fe Reporter (weekly newspaper), Santa Fe ranks second per capita for the size of its GLBT community.
Therefore, for older straight men and gays of both genders, Sante Fe may indeed prove fertile ground for single seniors. In any case, with a median age around 45, Santa Fe is among the most vibrant and interesting places to live in the U.S.

Aysha Griffin of NM 8:53PM June 21, 2009

Forget San Luis Obispo. Picture shows Morro Bay with big "rock" and sailboats -- really NOT San Luis Obispo. Coast and city are different temperatures. College students dominate SLO city. Morro Bay don't really sail that much and Avila Beach Yacht Club is for "social" only; which was the worst place in my entire life of unfriendly people!! I'm single here for 4 years and hate it. Just now found out about singles group. Definately few men over 50. Weather here "sucks" unless you like 50/60's and WINDY. I hate the weather - send me back to San Diego.

Kathy of CA 11:24PM June 12, 2009

The abundance of sunshine and lots of balmy mild weather all year around not to mention the gorgeous scenaries,exotic and beautiful people from all over the world. I won't live in any other place than this paradise.

Brian of HI 3:34PM June 11, 2009

Like so many similar articles that I read about the "Best Places to Live, Retire, Find Singles, Go to College", etc., Ms. Brandon's article is vague and ambiguous. Is this what it takes to get paid for an internet article these days...i.e. incomplete research and facts that have been skewed to "fit" into a desired subject? Or perhaps Ms. Brandon's research was complete but rather she chose to make her article so broad as to appeal to the largest number of readers so that it receives the maximum amount of "clicks" possible, content be darned?
I do read a lot of these articles, mostly to stay abreast of how ineffective information circulates on the internet, being passed off as journalism to what the authors must believe is an uneducated, uninformed reading public. I shutter to think that somewhere, someone is taking this information seriously and possibly making their retirement decisions based on what Ms. Brandon...or her editor...have passed off as fact.
The information in this article is absurdly incomplete. Please do your own research, visiting any location prior to buying property or making retirement decisions.

Stephanie of CA 3:23PM June 09, 2009