Top Places to Retire With Your Dog

by Moira McGarvey

If you love dogs, you’ll be thinking about where you retire with an additional filter. Is the city or town friendly to Fido? Are there active 50+ communities that are especially tailored to pets? On our retirement planning site, GangsAway.com, we’re big fans of the canine. All kinds of them.

Pets are great no matter when you make them part of your family. But they can be especially beneficial as we age, for all the reasons you might surmise: companionship, protection, and exercise. Exercise is a big one. And let’s face it, dogs walk us. Getting out for a good walk, socializing at the dog park, chatting with another dog family at the coffee shop, these are all good things, but especially helpful if your inclinations might otherwise be solitary and sedentary.

Dogs are great for our health, our longevity, and well, they’re just great. We’ve looked at all the top lists and selected the best dog friendly towns that are also good retirement towns, and listed them for you below. We’ve also come across a few retirement communities that cater to pets as well and that might be just the kind of place you’re looking for.

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