Tallahassee Is The Finest Place On Earth To Retire

There are millions of baby boomers around the globe trying to elect where to retire, and if nearly everyone of us who have grown up in Tallahassee have anything to with it, they are going to pick Tallahassee. Tallahassee needs population growth to help the property market healing, and courting retirees could be a very clever part of this answer. Tallahassee is "sorta just like home" for many who come here, so getting Tallahassee into the running for "where to retire" should not be tough to do. According to Google, the common search engine is asked "where to retire" 22,126 times each day in the United states alone. It seems as if judging where to retire is a very fashionable question right now, and we need to announce that Tallahassee is a very suitable answer. There are so many obvious motives that Tallahassee could become a top destination for people who are looking for "where to retire." As one Tallahassee transplant recently pointed out, Tallahassee is * not South Floridarn * hillyrn * blessed with four seasonsrn * seasonal, but with benign wintersrn * oozing "home town feel" * not prone to storm surgern * not provincialrn * relatively sophisticated due to government and the universitiesrn * where to retire Last August, we shared an article from the Democrat, written by Elizabeth M. Mack, that announced the new select Tallahassee initiative. This marketing promotion was designed to lure more baby boomers to the Tallahassee area as where to retire. Here we are six months later and that initiative apparently died. There is a decide on Tallahassee website that shows little, if any traffic (website rating on Alexa). As a matter of fact, the article I wrote about the campaign is the #1 search result on Google for "go for Tallahassee." Our whole community must do a better job of spreading the word that Tallahassee is the "where to retire" capital of the world! This means that many of us understand the need to spread the word about Tallahassee, but there is no collective effort to make it happen. This part is simple, and we all play a part in the getting the word out about Tallahassee. Help spread the message, "Tallahassee is where to go when you retire." When you see upbeat articles on Tallahassee, share them! Put them on Facebook and any other social media applications that you use. The viral effect of all of us spreading the word about the benefits of living in Tallahassee could help restore our local economy, as well as the slumping realty market. You can be part of a great support system for go for Tallahassee, so help spread the word! Look to the top left margin on the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog and the social sharing buttons are all there. Spread the word in your network, and ask them to do the same. And the next time you are asked about where to retire, remember to tell them to look at Tallahassee, Florida.