Best place for gays to retire
Vacationer contributor Jon Bailey and his husband Triton Klugh are 2 Dads with Baggage, and they’ve rounded up a list of some of the best places for LGBTQ+ people to retire.
As the new year begins, it’s always a good time for reflection. My husband Triton and I talk about the things we’d like to do differently, and changes we’d like to produce in the coming year. As you get older, the conversation sometimes focuses on the invigorating light at the end of the tunnel – retirement. We certainly don’t intend for animation to stop because there are no plans to sit on a couch all day, napping as we wait for our early bird dinner. In today’s world people are staying active well into their 80s, and we intend to do the same. However, we may arrange to do it all from a more exotic location.
Lately, we’ve been thinking a lot about retirement. Perhaps there’s a tiny bit of daydreaming going on, but in reality, we include started researching in earnest. We’ve asked friends, googled until our fingers were cramped, accessed numerous expat message boards, and traveled multiple times to our favori
by Dave Hughes. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue.
(It seems like every few weeks or so, someone publishes a new list of The Top Places to Retire. Dave Hughes’ novel book, The Quest for Retirement Utopia, will help you clarify which criteria are most essential to you in deciding where to retire and provide resources to facilitate find the see that’s right for you. In a special section for LGBTQ people, Hughes has compiled The Best U.S. Cities for LGBTQ Retirees, which includes some places that may surprise you. Hughes, a Next Street Influencer in Aging who retired at 56, writes the blog and is an authority on retirement lifestyle planning. He lives with his husband in a Phoenix suburb. The following is an excerpt from his book’s chapter on Best Cities for LGBTQ Retirees.)
When it comes to choosing a place to dwell during retirement, LGBTQ people want the same things that everyone else wants — safety, logical prices, agreeable climate, cultural and recreational amenities and great health care. However, LGBTQ people include a few additional factors to consider.
Thos
Top 10 Most Affordable, Homosexual Retirement Cities
What are the top 10 most affordable gay retirement cities? Locate out here on this episode. Then download your FREE Queer Money Kickstarter, a 9-step Guide to Kickstart Your Journey to Financial Independence.
Watch more on the top 10 most affordable gay retirement cities
What are the top 10 most affordable gay retirement cities?
On this Queer Money®, we’re sharing the 10 most affordable, gay retirement cities on our affordable, LGBTQ+-friendly urban area series.
Coming in at #10, we have a tie between Huntington, West Virginia, and Lexington, Kentucky. Huntington has the lowest rents at $ monthly for a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment. Huntington has the lowest median income at $37, and the lowest average income at $54, annually. Huntington came in at #33 on the US News & World State for the best retirement cities in the US. Lexington is one of the most temperate climates in the top 10 locations. It came in at #48 on the US New & Earth Report for the top retirement cities in the US.
Coming in at #9 is Harrisburg, Penns
Editor’s note: "Best Places for LGBTQ People to Retire Abroad" is part of an ongoing series on retiring abroad. To view all the articles in the series, jump to the end of this article.
An irrefutable reality of being a member of the LGBTQ community, at any age, is that you must give more thought than non-LGBTQ people about where to inhabit. What are the local laws that apply to LGBTQ people regarding workplace and housing discrimination, marriage equality and conversion therapy? What does available universal polling reveal about acceptance of the LGBTQ community? Even if you’re not married and don’t schedule to be, or even if you no longer work, such laws — or the absence of them — suggest to LGBTQ folks how guarded and welcoming the locale will be for them.
The above is true whether you’re LGBTQ and 30 — or a lgbtq+ retiree. You can’t just spin the globe. If you’re LGBTQ and are considering retiring abroad, it is incumbent on you to do more due diligence than your unbent friends and family members would have to perform in the same situa