Thanks for visiting 'Retire to Yakima.' We hope you give us just a few minutes to talk about why retiring to our fair community is a pretty good idea. You have choices so all we can do is have fun talking about it.
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Welcome To Possibilities
There are oddles of places to retire... and just as many different reasons for choosing one. But at 'Retire to Yakima', we're just going to concentrate on Yakima. All the other choices are on their own.
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You might be thinking Yakima must be special since it has a nice website with attractive experienced people on the home page (they're models). Actually, there is nothing that unique about Yakima. But it does have a combination of things that make it a really great place to retire. Like an old soup recipe, all the ingredients by themselves are nothing special but put them all together and... walla walla, you have something close to perfection.
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But Yakima has some drawbacks which you also must know about. For example, Yakima doesn't have any 6 lane freeways because we don't have that many people. Yakima is kind of quaint in that we think a parking lot is where cars should park... not freeways.
You'll notice that some homes in Yakima have no gutters or downspouts. With only 7 inches of rain per year, gutters are optional and a luxury.
Another downside is that Yakima is not the home to a famous coffee roaster... but Starbucks abound and the best coffeeshop in probably the world is North Town Coffee (link) in the old town of Yakima (32 N. Front Street).
5 Reasons Quickly...
Weather
The sun makes an appearance nearly every day. With over 300 days of sunshine each year, the great outdoors is nearly always approachable.
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Are you smart enough to retire to Yakima? Take the quiz below and you'll find out.
Yakima only has one airport and it is not an international one. Of course, most big cities have only one airport and depending on traffic, it may take hours to get to it. Yakima's airport is always just minutes away, parking is just feet from the main entry, and the security folks are so friendly, they dern near hug you as you board your flight.
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Why Yakima Wants You
Frankly, Yakima already has it's fair share of retired folks (a few are cranky). They've been coming from all over. The Puget Sound, Portland, California... and even some folks from Alaska now call Yakima home sweet home. But because we retired types make pretty good citizens, we want more.
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Retired people have all the money. Well maybe not all the money but we have some and we like to hang on to it and that makes Yakima an even bigger deal. It's pretty cheap to live here.
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Take the price of a home for example. In Yakima, you can buy a brand spanking new home for half the price some old bungelow in some upity burg in Seattle will cost. And if you always wanted to retire to an old brick Colonial in the historic area of Yakima... you can do that too.
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Things like taxes and utilities and dog walking are cheap here. Speaking of dogs, a visit to the vet won't require a second mortgage and dogs are allowed to use the parks to do their business but some parks want you to glove up and pickup after Fido.
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So retiring to Yakima is good for all of us. Yakima provides the perfect soup, you bring Fido and we all live our best years yet... together. Simple.
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Click here to get started making your plans.
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Did you know this about Yakima?
Yakima is known for growing millions of pounds of apples every year. No other place like it. And as the saying goes...'an apple a day keeps the doctor away.'
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But we need doctors and one of the best places to learn how to be a doctor is in Yakima, Washington. Yakima is the proud home of Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU). They grow doctors by the dozens every year. Good ones.
