Baby Boomers

A new report from the USDA says that baby boomers will be flooding out of metropolitan areas and into the countryside over the next ten years.

As Baby Boomers reach retirement age in Canada, nearly one out of five in the country will be retired within a decade. This coming retirement boom is already affecting the housing market, which many expect to change dramatically.

The article suggests that rising gas prices, enduring subprime mortgage crisis, and some changing demographics (i.e., the aging of Baby Boomers) are all contributing to the greater popularity of central city neighborhoods.

A recent survey of the planning profession in the United Kingdom has found that there likely won't be enough young planners to replaces the aging planners approaching retirement.

Hospitals are being built and renovated all across the country -- a trend responding to the aging baby boomer population.