State officials are only beginning to address changing retirement trends, and to consider the impact of a growing older population on housing, transportation, health care, taxes and land use. She pledged to work with legislators and local governments to make sure retirees have affordable housing, transportation alternatives, access to medical care and job opportunities. She asked businesses to adopt policies giving workers more flexibility to care for aging relatives. Retirees provide much more in terms of tax revenues than they require in terms of services and costs,'' he said. More recent statistics are not available from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Experts say retirees typically visit a place three times or more before deciding to live there.
I'm not sure Florida is the premier retirement destination anymore,'' said Kenneth Johnson, a demographer and professor at Loyola University in Chicago who has studied retirement trends. Harder to gauge is whether the baby boomers' reputation for blazing new trails will extend to their retirement choices. The competition shows itself Don Goetz hopes to have a say in where some baby boomers retire. Goetz, a Milwaukee native, is the mayor of Jasper, a small Alabama city of about 15,000 northwest of Birmingham. Maybe the only Yankee ever elected mayor in Alabama,'' he notes.