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Nextville: Amazing Places to Live the Rest of Your Life
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?
Where, and maybe more importantly, how do you want to live once you've escaped the 9-to-5?
Barbara Corcoran has built her career on knowing where people will live even before they know it themselves! Now she turns her keen eye toward predicting "the next big thing" in real estate-where and how the over 77 million baby boomers will live when they retire.
In NEXTVILLE, Corcoran identifies the top eight trends that are changing where (and how) boomers are retiring. And she helps you figure out what's most important to you in your next place-whether it's pursuing your passions, living green, finding community, living young in a city or college town, or even staying right in your old home town. Corcoran also delivers her signature "Barb's Rules" on where and how to get the most out of the next great stage of our life. Let Barbara help you make the smartest real estate choices today to ensure a secure, comfortable, and fabulously fun tomorrow.
Where, and maybe more importantly, how do you want to live once you've escaped the 9-to-5?
Barbara Corcoran has built her career on knowing where people will live even before they know it themselves! Now she turns her keen eye toward predicting "the next big thing" in real estate-where and how the over 77 million baby boomers will live when they retire.
In NEXTVILLE, Corcoran identifies the top eight trends that are changing where (and how) boomers are retiring. And she helps you figure out what's most important to you in your next place-whether it's pursuing your passions, living green, finding community, living young in a city or college town, or even staying right in your old home town. Corcoran also delivers her signature "Barb's Rules" on where and how to get the most out of the next great stage of our life. Let Barbara help you make the smartest real estate choices today to ensure a secure, comfortable, and fabulously fun tomorrow.
- GenresNonfictionSelf Help
272 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2008
About the author
Barbara Corcoran
14 books41 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country when she took a $1000 loan to start The Corcoran Group.
As one of the “Sharks” on ABC’s hit TV show, SHARK TANK, Barbara has ponied up her own money and invested in twenty-two businesses, competing to make those deals for all to see, then shepherding them to success.
Her newest book, SHARK TALES, takes you behind the scenes of her life and business and her ‘seen on TV’ venture capitalism. Barbara is famously brash and blunt, bold and courageous, and a brilliant identifier of opportunity and talent (often invisible to others).
Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country when she took a $1000 loan to start The Corcoran Group.
As one of the “Sharks” on ABC’s hit TV show, SHARK TANK, Barbara has ponied up her own money and invested in twenty-two businesses, competing to make those deals for all to see, then shepherding them to success.
Her newest book, SHARK TALES, takes you behind the scenes of her life and business and her ‘seen on TV’ venture capitalism. Barbara is famously brash and blunt, bold and courageous, and a brilliant identifier of opportunity and talent (often invisible to others).
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December 14, 2011
A non-fictional look at examining where you truly want to live whether you're starting life all over again, need a break from your existing life, or you want a new start. For the zoomers, the ruppies, the huddlers, and the boomerangs.
My Take
Corcoran breaks it down nicely—she adds a test to determine what type of living you would prefer and I found it reasonably accurate. Except that I was attracted to three of the types. Knowledge is power!
The book includes websites and cautions, suggestions on places which offer particular amenities, lists of particular concerns from buying real estate in a foreign country to warnings on determining if this change is right for you. VocationVacations, house exchanges, condotels, ocean living, family compounds, cohousing, communes, trailers, narrow boats to aging in place. I can't imagine what Corcoran could possibly have left out.
The Cover
I do live this cover with its background of a road map and a huge wave of a yellow and blue billboard proclaiming the title and its authors.
The title is also perfect as it discusses the multiple options available to retirees and people interested in making a new start on life as you read your way to Nextville---the next place you want to live.
My Take
Corcoran breaks it down nicely—she adds a test to determine what type of living you would prefer and I found it reasonably accurate. Except that I was attracted to three of the types. Knowledge is power!
The book includes websites and cautions, suggestions on places which offer particular amenities, lists of particular concerns from buying real estate in a foreign country to warnings on determining if this change is right for you. VocationVacations, house exchanges, condotels, ocean living, family compounds, cohousing, communes, trailers, narrow boats to aging in place. I can't imagine what Corcoran could possibly have left out.
The Cover
I do live this cover with its background of a road map and a huge wave of a yellow and blue billboard proclaiming the title and its authors.
The title is also perfect as it discusses the multiple options available to retirees and people interested in making a new start on life as you read your way to Nextville---the next place you want to live.
March 5, 2017
This book was okay. I'm still pondering, but I think for me it just barely makes okay. Answer 20 questions, some of which are utterly preposterous ("you find yourself in subzero weather wearing nothing but a t-shirt and shorts and are locked outside.. what do you do?" or "your computer literally explodes.. what do you do?" The answers are equally as preposterous. This is supposed to tell me where I want to live?!) and you are directed to certain chapters based on your answers. The chapters tell you a few sample places to live. That's great, there are some cool places out there, but it seems very haphazard. What if I'm not at all interested in golf? (As it turns out, I'm not.) I do like sushi but I don't feel it necessary to move to a town with 400 sushi restaurants.
This book has the potential to be useful, but it turns out to be more like one of those Cosmo quizzes where you grab a pencil and fill it out, roll your eyes at the end result that feels a little too one-size-fits-all, then toss it in the garbage and go on with your life.
This book has the potential to be useful, but it turns out to be more like one of those Cosmo quizzes where you grab a pencil and fill it out, roll your eyes at the end result that feels a little too one-size-fits-all, then toss it in the garbage and go on with your life.
October 12, 2013
Really aimed at people getting to retire...but I found it fascinating. She breaks the issue of "where to move next" in your life down to categories of people.....there are people who want to work in retirement (start a small business, etc), be active, engage with a community, etc....and she talks about what to look for for your individual interest and needs.
She describes all kinds of newfangled living arrangements I was unfamiliar with (did you know you could buy a share of a ship that is constantly traveling the world?) and then goes over the whole country (and world) recommending specific towns that are great to live in. Some I have visited (Tybee Island, GA, Beaufort, SC) and I found her descriptions to be spot on.
Another thing that was cool is she described some international spots, like Panama, where you can live really well as an American ex-pat and talks about the upsides/downsides and practical aspects of taxes, etc. Recommend!
She describes all kinds of newfangled living arrangements I was unfamiliar with (did you know you could buy a share of a ship that is constantly traveling the world?) and then goes over the whole country (and world) recommending specific towns that are great to live in. Some I have visited (Tybee Island, GA, Beaufort, SC) and I found her descriptions to be spot on.
Another thing that was cool is she described some international spots, like Panama, where you can live really well as an American ex-pat and talks about the upsides/downsides and practical aspects of taxes, etc. Recommend!
July 9, 2008
Nextville is supposed to be a guide for individuals planning to retire fairly soon and are trying to decide where to go. The style is breezy, which is good, because it is easily skimmed. It easily could have been half the length.
The one positive is that she encourages people to think about what they want to do in their retirement and what they want their lives to look like and then choose the place. Are you green? Community oriented? Suffer from wanderlust, etc.?
The author started and sold a major real estate firm in New York CIty and is now a real estate consultant.
The one positive is that she encourages people to think about what they want to do in their retirement and what they want their lives to look like and then choose the place. Are you green? Community oriented? Suffer from wanderlust, etc.?
The author started and sold a major real estate firm in New York CIty and is now a real estate consultant.
February 20, 2009
This book was actually written for Baby Boomers so that they can decide where they might want to retire. I'm presently on a temporarily "forced" retirement as I have been unemployed for a long time. I read this book to try and get some ideas on where I might want to move to if I cannot find a job where I live now in northern California. It was interesting and gives some good ideas.
December 1, 2009
Good information about where to retire to and good ideas to ponder about what to do in your second half of life; lots of good information, especially in relocating.
This author is the Barbara Corcoran of the Shark Tank TV series ....... great female role model.
This author is the Barbara Corcoran of the Shark Tank TV series ....... great female role model.
March 8, 2009
Fun expoloring the possiblities of where retirement might take me....one never knows!
February 14, 2015
An interesting perspective on retirement places, centered on what you want out of the rest of your life. This gave some valuable insights in my retirement planning not easily found elsewhere.
May 19, 2015
Great guidebook to assist next steps in life after market work! What to do and where/how to do it. Definitely not our parents retirement guide!
March 19, 2016
I absolutely love reading about real estate and this didn't disappoint. Sure, it was a little tailored towards retirees with money but I still loved the glimpse into other markets.
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