Florida's reputation as a retirement haven has attracted older people with substantial financial resources from throughout the nation, skewing its retiree population toward the affluent.
They correctly presaged that Florida was in the midst of transitioning from a vacation destination to a retirement haven.
The husband and wife retire from their work and immediately move down to some retirement haven in deepest Cornwall.
"Florida has a ton," she said, noting that state's status as a retirement haven.
As a retirement haven St. Petersburg was once the butt of jokes, with its ubiquitous green benches and blood pressure machines for the elderly.
New Jersey is now regarded as second only to Florida as a retirement haven.
"And it is a great retirement haven, close to Columbia, Atlanta, the beach, the mountains."
Rancho Mirage owes its legacy to being a retirement haven for senior citizens since the 1950s.
This remote presence reflected the preferences of many Drake's consumers from the north who had relocated to that retirement haven.
Carlsbad's 12 real estate agencies paint this growing city of 27,000 people as a retirement haven.