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Port St. Lucie residents love their parks, and there are plenty of them. Picnic pavilions and lakes make going to the park an enjoyable experience.
City praised for being a great place
to live if you’re retired
BY SUSAN BURGESS
COVID-19 may have shut down much of the economy
across the country, but Port St. Lucie doesn’t seem to
have noticed. It continues to reap honor after honor,
continuing on its path to excellence. The collection
added 15 new honors since spring. Kudos!
Where to retire if you have no savings? Port St. Lucie is a
great place, says the financial site GOBankingRates. The city
ranks No. 7 out of a list of 50 cities considered good places to
retire. The financial website uses a lot of sources, including
the real estate site Zillow, AARP, U.S. Bureau of Economic
Analysis and more. The city is more affordable, relatively
safe, and has a larger population of people older than 65.
Cape Coral is No. 1 on the list. Five California cities, topped
by San Francisco, are least affordable and are the worst places
to retire in the country.
CITY OF PORT ST. LUCIE
Port St. Lucie ranks fourth in working seniors: Senior
citizens are increasingly staying in Port St. Lucie’s workforce,
says SmartAsset, a financial company based in New York
City. In fact, the city ranks fourth of 10 cities where seniors
are continuing to work to supplement their income. In the
top four cities, the increase in seniors working in 2017 and
2018 was higher than the increase from 2014 to 2018, Smart
Asset said.
Fifth best place to retire: U.S. News and World Report determined
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that the Port St. Lucie metropolitan area is the fifth
best place to retire out of the 125 largest metropolitan areas
in the country. Of the many criteria considered, at the top
were the happiness of local residents, housing affordability,
tax rates and quality of health care. In an annual city survey,
residents consistently say they are satisfied with their quality >>