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2 small cities great for retirement
Boulder, Colo. What's better than raising a family in Boulder? Living in Boulder after the kids are gone. You can sample Boulder's 300-odd restaurants, shop the boutiques on the Pearl Street Mall, take tea at the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse and bike along Boulder Creek Path. No worries about intellectual stimulation, either: Boulder has enough artists, techies and activists to keep you on your toes indefinitely.
If you want to move to a close-in neighborhood, however, expect to downsize. Because of Boulder's tight growth restrictions, downtown housing is scarce and expensive. A single-family detached home averages $500,000, says Barry Friedlander, of Re/Max of Boulder. The same house runs $200,000 to $300,000 10 miles outside of town. You can find a two-bedroom condo for $250,000 or a one-bedroom loft with a view of the Flatirons for $280,000.
Or you can enjoy nature's glories close up and without the yardwork. "I'm 15 minutes from the edge of town," says Friedlander, 58. "I live on a mountaintop, so I can see Denver. I don't mow grass. I ride my motorcycle to the office once a month. This morning I was outside watching a bald eagle fly."
Low housing prices more than offset the relatively high property taxes. Baker's home on five wooded acres in Susquehanna Township, a northern suburb where the median home price is less than $112,000, is only minutes from the golf course, theaters, restaurants and medical care.
Baker, 66, loves cigars, and he opened Rae's Tobacco in Strawberry Square, the city's trendy downtown office-and-shopping complex. It's just a couple of blocks from the Susquehanna River. Each day an eclectic mix of cigar aficionados gather in the shop to fire up a favorite smoke and burn through the subject du jour.
The region's strong economy has helped foster a thriving cultural scene that includes the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts home to the city's symphony orchestra, led by Tony Award-winner Stuart Malina and the National Civil War Museum. The region also supports theater and jazz. "It gets better every year," says Baker. "I made the right choice."
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