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Summary: Quantitive ratings provide good information
Review: The beauty of the book is that Savageau's rankings are both (a) quantative, reducing the chance for the author's personal preferences to affect the ratings, and (b) pretty well explained: you know how he came up with the ratings. It's unlikely that your own list does not include several in Savageau's group. Since he explains the basis for each location's standing in each category (there are seven), the reader can make his/her own judgements if a particular factor is of less interest to that reader than it is to the author. In fact, a sort of interest quiz in the first chapter helps the reader understand which factors are more important to him/her. This armed, the reader could use the approach to his/her own list of places. Other books of this genre tend to lean heavily on opinion and seem to get a lot of input from the chamber of commerce. That's not a problem here.
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Summary: Proof read!
Review: There seems to be some useful information in this book.
However, the total lack of proofreading makes me question its accuracy.
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Summary: Excellent Book but a little dated?
Review: This book has just about all the information you will need to start your research on where and how to retire. It contains detailed information that you will need to plan your retirement budget. If this was a novel a copywrite date of 1999 would not matter but, this book contains cost-of-living, tax and housing costs information. One would have to take this into consideration when reading this book. It is well worth buying. There is no book that I know of that has this much detailed info in it.
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Summary: Bloodless
Review: This book is a total disappointment. It provides no sense of place, no feel for locales. It simply provides tables and statistics. It's a bloodless book. It's like picking a bride from a catalog with no pictures and no commentary -- just body measurements, IQ measurements, and test scores. The book is, in my opinion (of course), nearly useless.
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Summary: Bloodless
Review: This book is a total disappointment. It provides no sense of place, no feel for locales. It simply provides tables and statistics. It's a bloodless book. It's like picking a bride from a catalog with no pictures and no commentary -- just body measurements, IQ measurements, and test scores. The book is, in my opinion (of course), nearly useless.
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Summary: Quiz error
Review: This book is excellent and very detailed, but the personal profile quiz has mixed up the Service and Working categories. Letters D and E in the quiz should be interchanged.
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Summary: Almost everything I wanted to know
Review: This book is filled with facts and figures about numerous retirement possibilities. I like the quantitative nature of the book, but wish there was more on the people and lifestyles of the different cities.
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Summary: DISAPPOINTED
Review: This is a valuable resource, well-worth more stars than I gave it. The disappointment lies in the synopsis: Nova Scotia?!? There are no Canadian cities in this listing, which is what this reader was seeking. Please don't mis-lead people and leave readers dismayed to find they've bought something other than what they were sold.
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Summary: Can't wait for next update!
Review: Though this book is currently from 1999, it still contains useful information. Having a sense of what you need, and the kind of life you'd like to life will help you to understand why's the book is organized as it is.
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Summary: Can't wait for next update!
Review: Though this book is currently from 1999, it still contains useful information. Having a sense of what you need, and the kind of life you'd like to life will help you to understand why's the book is organized as it is.
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