Nina and Tom Szuch are giving up their retirement home in Orlando, Fla., for the frosty climate of Michigan.
But the couple — missing their family and friends up north — isn't alone. They're part of the baby boom generation looking to live in areas far from the traditional retirement states of Florida, Nevada and California, and a group of developers are building "active adult" communities specifically with the older set in mind.
As an Associated Press story on Page M7 explains, large housing developments packed with hundreds of homes, golf courses, walking trails and community centers are popping up, hoping to lure older adults back to their home states.
"We really missed our family, and here they have a lot for seniors and it's all so appealing," Nina Szuch said as she looked at the one-story home in Bridgewater, one of two such Pulte Homes Inc.-run Michigan communities, which require 80 percent of its population to be 55 or older.