A few years ago, Rick Baker moved to Grand Rapids to take a job. The 49-year-old CEO of the local chamber of commerce loves the city so much, now he plans to retire there.
He has a new list, compiled by one of America’s most influential groups for seniors, to help lure other baby boomers to Michigan’s second-largest city. AARP the magazine is now calling it one of the top five best, low-cost places in America to retire.
“It shows that Michigan has a great quality of life — and places people want to be,” Baker told the Free Press. “The rankings help us as we market the community.”
In the past few years, the national news media have been abuzz about Grand Rapids, about 170 miles due west of Detroit near Lake Michigan. The city has earned attention and praise for its revitalized downtown, affordable housing and work opportunities — as well as it’s scenery, bike trails, international art competition ArtPrize and a surging industry of top-rated craft breweries...
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
