With their service industry jobs and modest incomes, these folks still try to fashion fast-paced lifestyles centered on sports, cars and dating.
We identified three resort communities where residents enjoy a more rustic quality-of-life away from population centers in Arizona, Colorado and Utah.
With the help of our knowledge bank, you can choose for variations in your new neighborhood by:
But to zero in on the best place for you you’ll have to visit and schedule time to explore potential new homes in a region.
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Lifestyles Segments: Urban to Rustic Density
Country Communities
Claritas / Nielsen PRIZM estimated that country communities represented 39.6% of United States population in 2011.
“Town and Rural areas (T) have population density scores under 40.
This category includes exurbs, towns, farming communities, and a wide range of other rural areas.”
Should you include these Birds-of-a Feather (BOF) lifestyles on your Bucket List?
Let’s turn to three Wireless Resorters household lifestyles which share the same rustic, quality-of-life appeal of nature as it does for High Country Eagles:
Wireless Resorters, Distant Exurbans (WRDE) – Two 20-29 year old Striving Singles and one 65+ year old Sustaining Seniors.
We use Claritas / Nielsen PRIZM lifestyle segmentation profiles to evaluate best places for relocation to more authentic, quality-of-life communities.
And, if your community already includes the following profiles, you’ll have a better understanding of what’s going on in your neighbors’ lives.
2011 Statistics:
- US Households: 13,401,489
- Median Household Income : $31,343
As for High Country Eagles, Rustic Eagles, these remaining three (of the six) segments in Rustic America represent the nation’s most isolated towns and rural villages for Distant Exurbans.
“As a group, T4 residents have relatively modest incomes, low educational levels, aging homes and blue-collar occupations.
Many of the residents, a mix of young singles and seniors, are unmarried, and they’ve watched scores of their neighbors migrate to the city.
In their remote communities, these consumers spend their leisure time in such traditional small-town activities as fishing and hunting, attending social activities at the local church and veterans club, enjoying country music and car racing.”
Where will you find those three lifestyles?
We identified three resort communities where residents enjoy a more rustic quality-of-life away from population centers in Arizona, Colorado and Utah.
- Elgin, AZ
- Telluride, CO
- Park City, UT
Which of the following lifestyles best describes you?
48Y3T4, Young and Rustic, 20-29, Striving Singles, Rustic Living, WRDE Distant Exurbans, Wireless Resorters (Park City, UT)
Distant Exurban (WRDE): “Like the soap opera that inspired its nickname, Young & Rustic is composed of young, restless singles.
Unlike the glitzy soap denizens, however, these folks tend to be lower-income, high school-educated and living in tiny apartments in the nation’s towns.
With their service industry jobs and modest incomes, these folks still try to fashion fast-paced lifestyles centered on sports, cars and dating.
2011 Statistics:
- US Households: 2,224,366 (1.90%)
- Median Household Income: $32,238
Lifestyle & Media Traits:
- Ordered from Columbia House
- Bought science fiction books
- Read Car Craft
- Watched WWE Wrestling
- Owned a Dodge Ram Diesel“
56Y3T4, Crossroads Villagers, 20-29 Striving Single, Rustic Living, WRDE Distant Exurbans, Wireless Resorters (Telluride, CO)
Distant Exurban (WRDE): “Residents are high school-educated, with lower-middle incomes and modest housing; one-quarter live in mobile homes.
With a population of middle-aged, blue-collar couples and families, Crossroads Villagers is a classic rural lifestyle.
And there’s an air of self-reliance in these households as Crossroads Villagers help put food on the table through fishing, gardening and hunting.
2011 Statistics:
- US Households: 2,466,414 (2.11%)
- Median Household Income: $32,084
Lifestyle & Media Traits:
- Shopped at Wal-Mart Pharmacy
- Owned a motor home
- Read Motorcyclist
- Watched The Jerry Springer Show
- Owned a Chevrolet Aveo“
55M4T4, Golden Ponds, 65+Sustaining Seniors, Couples, Rustic Living, WRDE Distant Exurbans, Wireless Resorters ( Elgin, AZ)
2011 Statistics:
- US Households: 1,985,453 (1.70%)
- Median Household Income: $31,657
Distant Exurbans (WRDE): “Golden Ponds is mostly a retirement lifestyle, dominated by downscale singles and couples over 65 years old.
Found in small bucolic towns around the country, these high school-educated seniors live in small apartments on less than $25,000 a year; one in five resides in a nursing home.
For these elderly residents, daily life is often a succession of sedentary activities such as reading, watching TV, playing bingo and doing craft projects.
Lifestyle & Media Traits:
- Purchased in-home vitamins
- Ordered garden supplies by phone
- Read American Legion Magazine
- Watched The Price is Right
- Drove a Mercury Sable”
Will you find a 100% fit?
No.
These lifestyle descriptions are intended to paint a picture of a new neighborhood you’d enjoy, because you share some of the same traits with current residents.
If you plan to relocate, start visiting communities on your short bucket list.
Don’t have a short list yet?
Steps:
8) Sit down with your spouse, partner or friends and write-up your bucket list of places.
20) Pivot. Maybe the lists of best places don’t appeal to you. Where can you go to make a fresh, new start? Don’t limit your imagination. Think anywhere — across the globe. Where do you really, really want to live, work and play? Why not live where it’s a vacation all year round?
21) Spend the time to find the best place to live and invest. It will be worth your while. The great thing about living where others spend their vacation is the year round quality-of-life.
26) If you know the zip code you can discover the lifestyles living in the community. You can compare your profile with theirs to estimate your degree of fit.
27) Estimate how well suited you are for the resorts. Refer to “Profiles-at-a-Glance” comparing 2008-2009 and 2013-2014 for changes in Life Stages – Singles, Couples, Families, Midlife, Empty Nests, Baby Boomers and Seniors; Ages – 20-29, 25-54, 30-44, 45+ 45-65, 55+ and 65+; and mix of Lifestyles in neighborhoods. Does the resort still offer the age, life stage and lifestyle profiles you prefer?