| If you fancy moving to a top-notch location to | | | | Nevada, is surprisingly a small community located |
| retire, this article is a must-read. In its recent | | | | a few miles southeast of the beautiful Lake |
| report, identified the top cities across the U.S. | | | | Tahoe. The community is famed for its natural |
| favored by the senior residents. The website | | | | beauty and is within 4-hour drive from San |
| analyzed the cities that had the fastest growing | | | | Francisco, San Jose and Sacramento areas. |
| senior populations and came up with the most | | | | Gardnerville Ranchos saw an amazing population |
| popular retirement havens. | | | | growth of 45 % in five years, between 2000 and |
| Bizjournals took into account cities that had | | | | 2005, among senior residents. This growth rate is |
| experienced a rapid growth in the population of | | | | nine times that of the country's population growth |
| senior residents in the last 5 years. The study | | | | rate of 5 % for senior citizens. The city has 19 % |
| compared 938 markets in eight statistical | | | | of residents who are in the age group of 65 and |
| categories to make the list of the top retirement | | | | above, which is much higher than 900 of the 937 |
| communities of America which included beaches, | | | | other markets that were reviewed in the country. |
| mountains, small towns and big cities. | | | | These top 10 cities to retire indicate that senior |
| The top 10 hottest places to retire in according to | | | | citizens prefer the Sunbelt; with all these areas |
| Bizjournals are: | | | | located in the South and Southwest. Another |
| 1. Gardnerville Ranchos, Nevada | | | | interesting fact is that the retirement cities in the |
| 2. Punta Gorda, Florida | | | | top 10 list range from small to medium sized with |
| 3. Pahrump, Nevada | | | | the largest being Punta Gorda, Florida having a |
| 4. Crossville, Tennessee | | | | population of 1,57,500 and the smallest, Brevard, |
| 5. Homosassa Springs, Florida | | | | North Carolina with just 29,600 residents. |
| 6. Sebring, Florida | | | | Although the Sunbelt attracts the seniors from |
| 7. Del Rio, Texas | | | | the Eastern and Midwestern with its warm |
| 8. Brevard, North Carolina | | | | weather and quality of life, other locations such as |
| 9. Georgetown, South Carolina | | | | the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the Great |
| 10. Ocean Pines, Maryland | | | | Lakes region are also gaining in popularity among |
| The top city to retire in, Gardnerville Ranchos, | | | | the retirees. |