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I recently retired after a 30 year career in education in Salt Lake City, Utah.  I moved with my husband to St. George upon retirement and began blogging for the David Ellis Group of Keller Williams.  After working every day for 30 years it has been a wonderful adjustment.   According to TopRetirements.com, St. George (the 7th largest city in Utah) has become one of the more popular retirement communities in the nation.  St. George is located in extreme southwestern Utah, with spectacular red rock bluffs overlooking the town, a mild climate in winter, and numerous, terrific recreational opportunities.  TopRetirements.com describes St. George as "one of the fastest growing areas in the United States." 

I love St. George.  I feel like I am on vacation…

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If you have never had a chance to attend a play, musical or concert at the Tuacahn Amphitheatre, you are missing out.  Tuacahn Amphitheatre is located in the red rocks in Ivins, near St. George.   The mission of Tuacahn is this:  Tuacahn edifies and inspires the human spirit through professional world class family entertainment and unparalleled artistic and academic experience that matches the majesty of our canyon.    

This year Tuacahn is offering the following plays as part of their “Broadway in the Canyon” series:  Shrek: The Musical, Newsies, Mamma Mia and Fairy Tale Christmas.  Ticket prices start at just $29.  You can also buy packages that offer savings, if you purchase tickets to all three shows, not including Fairy Tale Christmas.  If…

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I recently moved to St. George from the Salt Lake City area and one of the very first things I did upon arriving in St. George was to get myself a Washington County Library card.  What many St. George residents may not know is that you can manage your library account very easily online.  You can search the library catalog, place a hold on items you want to check out, renew items and order materials to be delivered to the branch nearest you.  The library notifies you when your items have come in and you will find them waiting for you to be checked out at the front desk.

The Washington County Library also offers eBooks (electronic books) for you to view or listen to on your own device.  You can easily download these materials from home and you have…

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Saint George, Utah - A Wonderful Place

So many people cannot wait to retire. This can be both very scary as well as very exciting all at the same time. Listen you spend most of your life working long hours and many of those hours you have spent wishing that you were not working. That you were enjoying some of your favorite things that you love to do, like playing golf, bird watching or anything else that you love to do. Today is that day that you can start planning your new life that will no longer consist of working 5 or more days a week. You are now able to what ever it is that you want to do, and enjoy your life doing anything.

The first thing that you are going to need to do in your planning efforts is to find the perfect retirement home that…

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