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Ideal Retirement Living invites you to discover the best age targeted and senior communities in the south and beyond. With over 95 communities, this resource is ideal in helping you choose the right place. Find the best retirement location and home that meets your senior retirement lifestyle.

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Kings Ridge

Warrenville, SC

It is a gated entrance closing behind you as your community welcomes you home. Four-board fences blend with nature to line the wide and welcoming road that leads to the home you dreamed and then helped design. It is seeing your neighbors walking nature trails, fishing in a lake or taking their thoroughbred on a stroll just as the sun sets behind your front porch. It is your land, it is your legacy, it is our purpose- It is Kings Ridge.

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Hampton Lake

Hilton Head, SC

At Hampton Lake, it's all about the water. Located in Bluffton, SC, Hampton Lake is the Hilton Head area's premier private lake community. The jewel of the community is the 165-acre freshwater lake that includes seven miles of navigable waterways and 15 miles of shoreline. With approximately 345 surrounding acres of nature preserve, which, together with the lake, create over 500 acres of open space and nature-friendly environment. Most lakefront homes and homesites will accommodate boat slips, for easy back-yard access to fishing, kayaking and deck-boat cruising with friends. Shopping, dining, entertainment, world-class golf, cultural and educational opportunities and medical facilities are conveniently located nearby in Hilton Head & Beaufort, SC, and Savannah, GA.

A variety of home choices are available from the mid $200s to the low $800s.

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Hilton Head Lakes

Hardeeville, SC

This exceptional Debt Free Lowcountry community awaits you, with the area’s best location only minutes off I-95 on Hwy 278. Hilton Head Lakes is also conveniently located just minutes from the world-renowned golf and beach resort of Hilton Head Island, recently rated #1 beach by Fox News, and the historic city of Savannah.

Whether you’re looking to relocate permanently for that well-deserved retirement or a weekend retreat, you can find your dreams fulfilled at Hilton Head Lakes. Hilton Head Lakes is the area’s only boatable lakefront and golf community with finished house/lot packages starting in the $180s and homesites from the $30s to the $140s with the industries only 90% financing at incredible rates.

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Regency at Chancellorsville

Fredericksburg, VA

Regency at Chancellorsville by Toll Brothers is a private gated active-adult community with luxurious single-family homes showcasing single-level living at its finest. Amenities include a grand clubhouse, pools, fitness center, walking trails and is close to shopping, golf, historic sites and more!

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St. James Plantation

Southport, NC

Southeastern North Carolina's coast is home to St. James Plantation, The Number One-Selling Community in the Coastal Carolinas. Residents enjoy first-class, completed amenities, including a private oceanfront beach club, over 15 miles of walking and biking trails, a bustling 475-slip ICW marina and marketplace, state-of-the-art athletic clubs and clubhouses, fantastic tennis, parks and gardens, 81-holes of championship golf and over 500 acres of nature preserves. Homesites from the $70s, Custom Homes from the $200s, Villas from the $100s. You're invited to find out more about their unique lifestyle today!

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The Peninsula on the Indian River Bay

Millsboro, DE

The Peninsula on the Indian River Bay offers an exquisite collection of homes in vintage coastal architecture. With a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, unmatched amenities and instant access to Delaware's famous Atlantic beaches, there is simply no place like The Peninsula on the Indian River Bay.

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Riverwood by Del Webb

Ponte Vedra, FL

For anyone age 55 and better who has ever longed to live near the ocean, Del Webb proudly presents Riverwood by Del Webb at Nocatee. Located in the prestigious Ponte Vedra area between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, this is Florida at its best with active-adult living at its finest.

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Glen Lakes

Weeki Wachee, FL

Enjoy gentle sea breezes from the Gulf of Mexico, only 2 1/2 miles away; surrounded by 85,000 acres of state protected nature preserve. Spectacular natural beauty and a long, fascinating history combine with proximity to locations that rank as the world's #1 resort destinations. Enjoy an extremely active lifestyle, centered around a 35,000 square foot clubhouse.

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Palm Cay

Nassau, BAH

Marina and oceanfront residential development located just 15 minutes drive east of Nassau on a 70 acre site. The property consists of luxurious but affordable lots, townhouses, condos and duplexes built to high specifications.

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