2024 the best place to live in the united states review

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Wondering where to live in your later years? This strategic and thoughtful guide is aimed at anyone looking to determine the best place to call home during the second half of life.

Place plays a significant but often unacknowledged role in health and happiness. The right place elevates personal well-being. It can help promote purpose, facilitate human connection, catalyze physical activity, support financial health, and inspire community engagement. Conversely, the wrong place can be detrimental to health, as the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted. In Right Place, Right Time, Ryan Frederick argues that where you live matters enormously―especially during the second half of your life.

Frederick, the CEO of SmartLiving 360 and a recognized thought leader on the intersection of place and healthy aging, provides you with tools to evaluate your living situation, ensuring that you weigh all the necessary factors to make a sound decision that optimizes your current and future well-being. He explores the pros and cons of different living options, from remaining in your current home to downsizing, intergenerational living, co-housing, senior living, and more. Along the way, he helps readers answer important questions, including "Are you already in the right place?" and "In what areas does your current place not align with your needs and desires?" The rest of the book helps you to unpack specific options for place, beginning with considerations for regions and neighborhoods and then looking at specific housing models. It also focuses on how housing is changing, particularly from a technology, health, and health care perspective. The book closes by challenging the reader to develop a discipline of choosing the right place at the right time.

Combining real-life stories about people selecting places to live with design thinking principles and interactive tools, Right Place, Right Time will appeal to empty nesters, retirees, solo agers, and even adult children seeking ways to support their parents and loved ones.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st edition (October 12, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1421442302
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1421442303
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.69 x 9 inches
Reviewer: Peter
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This book changed where we will live next!
Review: Ryan Frederick's "Right Place, Right Time" is a transformative book that emphasizes the profound impact of place on our well-being and sense of belonging. He urges readers to reflect on their environments, highlighting how the right place impacts us mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Through practical exercises and thought-provoking questions, Frederick guides readers in making informed decisions about their future, underscoring the necessity of intentional belonging as a foundation for long-term plans. Without question, this book was the most important book we've ever read about where we will want to live in our next season. Highly recommend!

Reviewer: Jefecitos
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Re-read this book every 5 years to live your best life.
Review: This is a good book. Actually a great book for people who are thinking about the later stages of their life. I truly wish my mom, brothers and I had read this book 5 year ago when we made some big decisions for my mother who we moved closer to two of her three children. Here is how I’d break down the book:First: this book is the best resource I’ve come across thinking about how ‘place’ intersects across communities for those (with enough money) looking to find the best community for the last decades of their life. Ryan Frederick recognizes this early in the book – that it’s really a resource for those that have the luxury of picking the type of community / location /neighborhood that maximizes their happiness.Context: Ryan seems to have spent his adult life thinking senior living. His linkedin profile suggests that he graduated from Princeton/Stanford, lived in downtown Baltimore, and now lives in Texas. He has accumulated invaluable stories from his time working in the senior living space. I chuckle at the idea of a 20-something living in a senior living community, but these are the types of stories that he weaves into this broader narrative.Each chapter begins with a parable/story from either Ryan’s experiences or societal references. He, then, weaves in lots of data (as if it were a Phd research paper) that backs up his beliefs. This works incredibly well bringing some real-world examples that bring the logical flow to life. He hits on several key topics:• Purpose: Charlotte Siegel example who lived 100 years with a great sense of purpose and selflessness.• Human connection: Ryan’s friend Ken whose life was saved at the finish line of a race (cardiac arrest), and whose community of friends rallied around him (Loneliness can increase premature death by ~ 30%).• Physical: Rick and Ben are friends who created Sufferfest for men to spend times outdoors forcing deep friendships while enduring grueling, physical conditions.• Financial: we need to prepare for a ~ 100-year life. He doesn’t offer a deep dive on how to do this, but explains many of the key principles that are needed and the value of appreciating home equity (and how best to use0.• …• and this leads to PLACE. This is the central theme of this book. For those in the 2nd half of their lives and (assuming they have the financial means), how they organize their life to the fullest.Frederick does this by mixing in research around location (neighborhoods) to housing options (single family, senior living, cohousing to living with family) with great anecdotes.Some of my favorite stories from him:• Brenda Atchinson, a 60-something who lived in Roxbury, MA and launched a matchmaking service Nesterly that matches seniors with students. Wish I had been aware of this prior to moving my mother 3000 miles.• The Grottons, 60-something couple who downsized and moved to a community where they host monthly game nights, and engage with their neighbors – reversing the national trend, where about ½ of older adults don’t know any of their current neighbors.One line in the middle of the book captured my feeling, “Gone are the days of playing bingo nightly. Instead, resourced are employed to help residents explore what they want their next chapter to be.”This book is that first step for me. I encourage you to buy/read it. Will re-read every 5ish years as I use his self awareness check on how I’m doing and if I’m living my best self as I prepare for each next stage of life.

Reviewer: Mary Ann Kerlin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wisdom and Clarity
Review: I highly recommend Ryan Frederick’s book, Right Place, Right Time, which is  brimming with wisdom based on research and experience and written with great clarity. Frederick has captured both the literature regarding this topic of choosing the right place and time for a rich life as well as  experiential knowledge from the stories he has gleaned while working in the field of senior living and stories from intergenerational friendships.  He has shared the literature and his experience to illustrate his points  along with a dashboard graph to help with personal analysis.At age 75 I made the decision to sell my family home of 46 years and move to a coop apartment in an urban area.  Frederick’s first point about finding purpose in life was the driving force behind this move.   My main goal of being with family was no longer rooted in the family house.  My daughter lived overseas and for years after I became a widow  our family home gave her a place to come in the summer with her young children.  As they grew and went to summer camp, this was no longer important.  My son and his wife and young children lived a car or bus ride away and I decided that I wanted to live closer to them.  Another part of the equation regarding purpose was that I wanted to have a smaller carbon footprint by moving to a smaller place where I could walk to see my family and some friends and also walk  or take public transit to cultural events.  Frederick’s analysis helped me to better reflect on and appreciate my move.  Although Frederick’s point about purpose was a driving force in my move, I also see through reading his book that this move benefitted me in terms of social interactions and physical well-being.  This is the right place at the right time for me. I found such strong confirmation in Frederick’s book for the move that I made and for the place where I am as I approach eighty years of age.  Also importantly his book has challenged me to improve my present by looking more closely at social interactions particularly intergenerational ones and being more creative even in a time of pandemic.  I was also challenged to think more about my future should my health weaken. This is such an excellent book. I recommend it highly to those who want to evaluate their current living arrangements  and for those who want to  think about alternatives that may fit better with their purpose and their well-being.  It offered me both confirmation and challenge.

Reviewer: Jane
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: found this book mainly related to people who are retiring and also it is American and talks about areas to live in the US so being in the UK, I didn’t really find it that helpful. A few good tools and tips in it though but I wouldn’t recommend.