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Article: Neighborhoods feature fitness, recreation.(FRIDAY HOME GUIDE)(FOCUS: ACTIVE ADULT COMMUNITIES IN LOUDOUN, PRINCE WILLIAM)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2008
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Byline: Michele Lerner, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Retirees or those approaching retirement age often choose to make long-term decisions about where to live. In previous decades, retirees often opted to move to Sun Belt states, but trends in recent years show that older adults often choose to stay in their own homes or in the area where they have raised a family and developed close friendships.
Many homeowners decide they are ready to leave behind the chores that consume their leisure time, including raking leaves, shoveling snow, mowing the grass and painting the window trim. Active adult communities, restricted to households with members age 55 and ...