Pennsylvania’s Boomers Stay, Grow Gray
While suffering through another snowy winter in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, last month, Dolores Pohl said she’d sometimes wonder how nice the Florida sunshine would feel on her face. Then the 59-year-old would consider more basic needs and go back to shoveling.
Pohl and her husband are among a growing number of Pennsylvanians who have forsaken thoughts of a Sunbelt retirement because the benefits in their home state are so generous, population-trend experts say. Pennsylvania, which has the third-largest percentage of residents older than 65 in the U.S., saw its under-18 population decline in the last decade, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released yesterday.
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Category: Boomer Lifestyle
It is interesting how PA has become a haven of sorts for adults and seniors. Like the Pohls, people find the area and the benefits very favorable, and find no real reason to leave it behind. For those that don’t mind the snow, it is certainly not a bad decision!