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July/August/Septmeber 2009
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Our 2009 List:
“Under the
Radar”
Destinations
Special Section:
Lake Murray Country
“Jewel of South Carolina”
2009 WINNER
Mature Market Media Awards
July/August/September 2009
Table of Contents
5Fast Facts
Retiring to Alabama
23Arizona Retirement
Scenic and Fun
7Publisher/Editor’s Note
24 Del Webb Hits a
Carolina Lakes Home
Run
8
Profile:
Dan and Jane Hardin Love
Pickwick, Hardin Co. TN!
9Carolina Hills at
Meadowbrook
The Deck Family’s
Labor of Love
34 The Culture, Fun and
Food of Lousiana
35 The “New South”
A Look at Charlotte Area
Relocation
11Lake Murray Country
Retirement &
Relocation Guide
page
page
25
10
NARA is Coming
to Charlotte
Cover Story
“Under the Radar”
Destination Towns/Cities
List of Advertisers
ALABAMA:
Bay Minette (Baldwin County)
Bailey’s Glen (AAC-Cornelius) Page 2
Bermuda Village (CCRC-Advance)
Opelika Page 4
Carolina Hills at Meadowbrook
(AAC-Rutherfordton) Page 36
Charlotte Symphony Page 36
Piedmont Crossing
(CCRC-Thomasville) Page 37
Ridge Road Villas (AAC-Charlotte)
Page 3
ARIZONA:
Sunsites Arizona (Land, SE Arizona)
Page 23
ARKANSAS:
El Dorado Page 39
LOUISIANA:
Crowley Page 34
Thibodaux Page 34
MISSISSIPPI:
Meridian Page 10
NORTH CAROLINA:
Abernethy Laurels (CCRC- Newton)
Page 37
Page 37
Page 35
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Del Webb’s Sun City Carolina Lakes
(AAC-Fort Mill) Page 38
Edgewater (AAC-Lancaster Co.)
Page 40
Lake Murray Country (Relocation
Guide, Columbia) Pages 11-22
Lake Ridge (AAC-Tega Cay)
Page 40
Summer’s Bend on the Ashley
(AAC-North Charleston) Page 33
TENNESSEE:
Crye-Leike Pickwick
(Realtor, Pickwick Lake) Page 9
ERA Crunk Real Estate Page 8
Hardin County Chamber of
Commerce Page 8
Hardin County Bank Page 8
Retire Hardin County Page 8
Lakeside Realty
(Realtor, Norris Lake) Page 9
TEXAS:
Sunset Ranches (Land) Page 23
VIRGINIA:
Lake Prince Woods (CCRC-Suffolk)
Page 37
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Retirement to Baldwin
Co., Opelika, Alabama
publisher’s note
Dan Owens
Publisher/Executive Editor
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Senior Sales & Marketing Consultant
snorris@retiresouth.com
Corporate Imagination
Graphic Design
Irene Salema
Office Manager
Contributing Writer:
Courtney McLaughlin
Marian Ingram
Relocation Director
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W
e’ve done it again! You are reading the second best magazine for
50+ readers in America as judged by the national Mature Market
Media Awards 2009 competition. The MMMA award, in its 19th
year, annually receives 1,500-2000 entries in all categories. Retirement Lifestyles competes with magazines of all sizes and we
were a little disappointed to be edged out of first place by AARP: The Magazine.
Somehow, we don’t think out bank account competes with AARP and their
magazine. So, we were pleased to receive three total awards in the general Magazine
category by also receiving two honorable mentions for other issues. This was more
awards than any other 50+ magazine. We’ve won top awards in the magazine
category in past years, but got skunked in 2008. It feels good to be on top again!
Kudos to our small, but dedicated and talented staff for working hard to
produce the best possible magazine for our readers.
Our organization has been instrumental in hosting nine consecutive National
Active Retirement Association (NARA) Conferences. Note that the 2009 10th
Annual NARA Conference will be in downtown Charlotte, NC Sept. 23-25 at
the Levine Museum of the New South. A great awards reception will be held at
Charlotte’s prestigious luxury Rosewood Condos (www.rosewoodcondos.com).
Find out more at www.retirementlivingnews.com.
Looking for an undiscovered spot where you can make your nest egg last?
Want to move to slow down your life and enjoy the simpler things? Tired of the
bitter cold and high taxes of your current location? Take a look through this issue
as we explore some places a little off most people’s radar. All of them are hoping
you’ll take a second look.
Here’s hoping you find your perfect new lifestyle!
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advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap,
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Hardins Find Paradise in Hardin
Co., Tennessee
Jane and Dan Hardin
at the Republican
National Convention
J
ane Hardin, a former big city corporate securities
and banking executive, is having the time of her life
in “retirement” near the banks of Pickwick Lake in
the small unincorporated town of Counce, TN.
Having spent much of her life as a rising executive
in the world of finance and big business in Memphis and
Nashville, Jane, 64, is excited about doing all the things she’s
always wanted to do, but never seemed to have time.
Like “putting up” strawberry jam or playing golf one day
a week or puttering around on the lake watching a sunset
in her pontoon party barge with her husband Dan, 63, and
friends. “All my Memphis friends asked me, ‘what are you
going to do?’ when I told them I was moving to the lake. But
now, I stay busy all of the time,” Jane said.
Jane and Dan still find time to travel two weeks a month
in a motorhome to destinations 600-700 miles from home
base. They are technically retired – Dan sold his shutter
company in 1989 and then built houses for another seven
years. However, it doesn’t sound like it.
Jane still puts in time at a part-time bank job at the –
ironically enough – Hardin County Bank. She loves how
everybody speaks and
every is looking to
help out. Doctors offer
almost
immediate
appointments if you
know you’re ill, she
said.
Pharmacists
actually inquire about
your health…and are
sincerely curious. “It’s just such a different laid back lifestyle
than Memphis,” she said.
And, the Hardin’s are cognizant that their nest egg is
going much further. While she owns the boat, motorhome
and nice home in a gated golfing community, her property
tax bill is about $150 a year.
Pickwick is their dream retirement spot, but the
Hardins are talking about taking their motorhome on a two
year North American adverture. Then, they’ll come back
into “retirement” at Pickwick Lake.
You know. One of those nice and quiet retirements?
Sure they will.
Hardin County, Tennessee
...you’ve found home
Savannah • Pickwick • Shiloh
Retiree Hardin County
Retir
You’ve Found Home...
Hardin County Bank
www.hardincountybank.com
731-925-9001
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ERA Crunk Real Estate
www.eracrunkrealestate.com
800-243-8818
Retirement Lifestyles™ | July/August/September 2009
Hardin County Chamber of Commerce
www.hardincountychamber.com
866-750-2363
Retire Hardin County
www.retirehardincounty.org
800-552-3866
Meadowbrook
Blends Golf,
Homes and
History
S
ometimes a development
means much more than just
dirt and real estate…it means
memories, history and traditions. This is true for the
Deck family, developers of the Carolina
Hills at Meadowbrook master planned
community in Rutherfordton.
The Deck family traces its roots to
Western North Carolina from Germany
through Virginia. A branch of the
Deck family settled on the current
development site in 1904 as a working
farm with crops and livestock. The
original settlers, William Henry “Will”
Deck and Della Jane Smith Deck and
their 10 children worked the farm.
In 1963, two of the brothers,
Carson and Kenneth, converted the
family farm into a public golf course
called Meadowbrook Golf Club. The
course has become the proving ground
for many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren of Will and Della Jane
Deck. From this legacy have come
three PGA Golf Professionals, one Turf
Grass degreed professional, four college
team golfers, and a summer program
for young golfers.
Today, decendents of the original
settlers continue to live and work in the
area and are developing the golf course
into a new active adult golf community.
William Deck, an officer in the
development, has always dreamed
of sharing the golf course with more
people. “I envisioned a friendly, well
conditioned golf course with a nice
community where people can enjoy
the many activities such as walking,
swimming, and biking.
Thirtyfive years ago, I was at another golf
community and thought, Why can’t we
do this? Why not have a lifestyle that
you would enjoy at a resort but in your
own backyard year around?”
“That’s the dream...and the legacy.”
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National Active Retirement Association
(NARA) coming to Charlotte!
C
harlotte, NC - one of the
country’s most vibrant
and fastest-growing metro cities – will play host to
the 10th Annual National
Active Retirement Association (NARA)
business conference on Sept. 23-25 at
the nationally acclaimed and awardwinning downtown Levine Center of
the New South (http://www.museumofthenewsouth.org/).
With its two professional sports
teams, major arts organizations,
wonderful restaurants and nightlife,
downtown Charlotte has become a
popular place to live and work in the
past 10 years. NARA’s top level executive
speakers and panelists will discuss topics
as broad as the future of the 50+ boomer
and beyond industry as well as the nuts
and bolts of building, marketing and
advertising to and serving this massive
age segment.
For the past nine years, NARA has
held this renowned retirement industry
summit and hosted hundreds of national
speakers and panelists. Many new
business relationships have been formed
at NARA events. If you are looking at
entering or thriving in the industry, you
will not want to miss this informative
and affordable business summit.
The three major topics of the
conference are:
• Developing and building housing for
50+ Buyers
• Marketing to and Advertising to 50+
Buyers
• Direct Selling to 50+ Buyers
• Attracting Retirees to Your Town/
Community
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NARA
CONFERENCE
Wednesday, September 23
Attend a Retiree Attraction boot
camp hosted by Thomas Warren and
Associates of Phoenix, AZ, Retirement
Low tax rates, wide range of housing options
at attractive prices, three regional hospitals,
parks, lakes, golf, professional theater, major
mall, local festivals, art and culture, churches
and community, all in one place…
Meridian, Mississippi, your new home!
1.800.585.3722
www.meridianms.org/retire.html
P.O. Box 1430, Meridian, MS 39302-1430
HOMETOWN RETIREMENT
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Lifestyles magazine and NARA. This
afternoon session is designed for
professionals interested in positioning
their community to attract boomers and
beyond as an economic development
effort. A “Welcome to NARA” networking
reception will be held on Wednesday
evening in downtown Charlotte.
Thursday, September 24
• Attend informative sessions and
workshops at the Levine Museum of
the New South
•A
ttend a late afternoon NARA
awards reception will be held at
the phenomenal Rosewood luxury
condominium development (www.
rosewoodcondos.com). (Interested
in winning a NARA Award? Click
on www.retirementlivingnews.com
for an awards application).
Friday, September 25
•A
ttend informative sessions and
workshops at the Levine Museum of
the New South, including a “50+ Sales
Bootcamp.”
•G
o on a self guided tour of Charlotte
area empty nester, active adult and
retirement communities, including
the wildly successful Del Webb Sun
City Carolina Lakes active adult
community just south of Charlotte.
Who should attend?
*Developers and builders in the 50+
housing market . *Developers and
builders interested in the 50+ housing
market. *Webmasters. *Marketers and
Advertising Professionals. Realtors.
Architects. City and Town officials.
Anyone interested in boosting their
community through retiree attraction
The total NARA registration
fee is received by August 12 is $250.
Afterwards, the fee is $295. Host hotel
is Holiday Inn Center City less than
two blocks from the Levine Museum.
The special NARA rate is $129/night
+ tax. Contact Mary Ann Kinney at
704-335-5400 ext 469 to take advantage
of this special rate.