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Retire Downtown: The Lifestyle Destination for Active Retirees and Empty Nesters
Fountain of youth discovered....Downtown
You see them on the sidewalks of downtowns across the nation. They wear worn-looking T-shirts, sipping coffee and listening to the latest Deathcab song on their iPods. They shop local markets, attend music festivals, and frequent the hippest restaurants. They're cool, all right. They've retired downtown.
Introducing the first official Ruppie Handbook: Retire Downtown: The Lifestyle Destination for Active Retirees and Empty Nesters (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $16.95). Ruppies — Retired Urban People — want to stay active and vibrant in their maturing years. These revved-up retirees and energetic empty nesters are shedding their suburban shackles and downsizing to smaller digs, and Retire Downtown is the perfect introduction to the exciting lifestyle that awaits downtown.
In Retire Downtown, author and renowned city planner Kyle Ezell identifies 20 of America's best downtowns, targeting dozens of great retirement neighborhoods, and presents detailed information on:
- Living: Find stylish, convenient housing that enables independent living in retirement years
- Volunteering: Change your surroundings, yourself, and even the world
- Playing: Find fabulous hangouts and exciting everyday things to do
- Shopping: Live like a European, even in Midwestern USA
- Getting around: Detailed instructions on transportation in your urban environment
Forget pills or plastic surgery. Being connected to a community — a vivacious, eclectic community, filled with different people, exciting places, and myriad opportunities for activity, entertainment, and growth — is the key to staying young.
About Kyle Ezell
Kyle Ezell is the founder of Get Urban America, a planning firm dedicated to teaching the urban lifestyle to Americans, a predominantly suburban culture. Kyle is a trained geographer and certified city planner who teaches downtown housing courses at Ohio State University. Author of "Get Urban! The Complete Guide to City Living" (Capital Books, 2004), Kyle lives in Columbus, Ohio. For more information, go to www.geturban.com and www.retiredowntown.com.
Empty Nesters Everywhere Are Going Urban
"For decades, homebuilders have fed the seemingly endless appetite for the suburban four-bedroom house with the backyard and the picket fence. But increasingly, they are recasting the American dream as a two-bedroom condominium with a gym in the basement and a skyline view from the living room." —The New York Times
"Retirees and empty nesters…they're all in the vanguard of a recent trend — they're repatriating center cities." —CNNMoney.com
"It's clear that a big, single family home in the suburbs is not doing well by the baby boom right now. Those of us who are 60 are thinking of cashing out, moving into the Ritz tower and getting our meals brought to us." —Karl Case, professor of economics, Wellesley College
"You see urban neighborhoods around the country coming alive, and you see the baby boom generation, which has traveled to Europe, and they see European cities and they say, 'Hey, I want that.'" —John McIlwain, the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit research group in Washington, D.C.
"Baby boomers will fuel the industry's condo building spree as they seek a youthful way of life. You can't get younger, so what's the next closest thing? Getting cooler. How do you get cooler? You move to these urban communities. There's more activity, more entertainment, more restaurants." —Roger Brush, group president, Toll Brothers, the nation's largest luxury homebuilder
"Americans would live downtown if they only knew how. People take golf lessons because they've never done it before. People have never lived in cities before. My mission is to teach them how." —Kyle Ezell, author of "Retire Downtown"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Contact: Shelly Barkes, (800) 851-8923, sbarkes@amuniversal.com
Retire Downtown
Author: Kyle Ezell
ISBN: 0-7407-6049
Format: Paperback: 6 x 9, 336 pages
Price: $16.95 ($20.95 Canada)
