How's New Bern for retirement?? (area, places, top)

[marc515]

We've been looking around the whole area (on the web), and will take a ride down there next month, but so far, New Bern appears to be a very nice retirement spot, and maybe our next home.

Would like to hear the good and the bad please, especially from those who have retired there.

Thank you,....marc

[tgfann]

New Bern was named one of the top 50 places in the country to retire. I don't remember who named it in the top 50 but I just saw it on The Today Show a few months ago.