Imagine the Golden Girls trading out their famed Miami home for a place in Alabama. Although they’re said to “travel down the road and back again” for each other, it’s difficult to see the girls still going wild outside of the Sunshine State. But these days, it might be what a multigenerational house of retirees would have to do to make ends meet.
Affordability, sunshine, and endless golf courses have long made Florida a retirement haven for everyone from Jerry Seinfeld’s fictional parents to an entire swath of baby boomers who have found their own slice of rumored swingers’ paradise at The Villages. But as the state becomes too popular for its own good thanks to the number of remote workers and ultrawealthy individuals who decamped there during the pandemic, many retirees are finding themselves priced out.
