Residents of sunny Green Valley are living longer...and facing hard times.
"Green Valley, AZ, is a "community where the median age in the 2000 census was 72, one of the oldest in the nation...With no ice to slip on and a hot, dry climate hostile to viruses and bugs, with 30-minute access to Tucson's wealth of geriatric care and an hour from cheap medication in Nogales, Mexico " Green Valley is a magnet for retirees. " But the means to live long is colliding with longer lives and harder times, most starkly in retirement communities like these in Arizona, Florida and California, which bloomed with the rise of the elderly affluence that began in the 1960's."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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