Link to July 16 Buffalo News article.Excerpt:
So where's the destination of choice for Erie County's baby-boomers as they age? Would you believe Erie County?
A University at Buffalo survey of more than 480 county residents, ages 50 and older, revealed that 82 percent of them would prefer to remain in their current homes for as long as possible. And of those who moved between 1995 and 2000, 75 percent stayed within the Western New York region, according to data from the last census.
"Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is not a mass exodus of the region's older residents to the Sunbelt," said Debra Street, a UB professor of sociology and the lead researcher on the survey. "Overwhelmingly, their preference is to remain not only in this region, but in their current homes."
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