Prrrrrrr (a regular in SooToday.com's red and blue rooms), was reading her grandmother's (we presume) copy of 50 Plus magazine today, when she noticed Sault Ste. Marie featured on the cover as one of the "20 Great Places to Live in Canada."
Yup - we're one of four Ontario communities to make the grade.
50 Plus is the official magazine of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP), claiming more than 215,000 paid subscribers and 765,000 readers per copy.
What they're saying about us
The magazine paints the Sault as a "beautiful, safe, four-season city" where almost everything is less than a 15-minute drive away.
It crows about our boardwalk, fall foliage, three museums, university, live theatre, winter sports and shopping malls.
Even the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival, the Lake George Marshfest and Tarentorus Fish Culture Station get plugged.
We're not so sure, however, about the magazine's promise that the new arena will preserve the old Memorial Gardens beacon, "which flashes nightly as a reminder of citizens who did not return from the Second World War."
How 50 Plus describes its average reader:
- 59 years old - female (64% - males 36%) - educated (44% hold a college certificate or higher) - household income of $51,234 - controls an extensive financial portfolio - leisure enthusiast, i.e. cruises, golfer, skier - retired - (69% - working 21%) - own own home - married/living together
"55 percent of our readers hold more than $50,000 securities/savings compared to 21 percent for the general population," the publication says in its media kit. "59 percent have RRSPs compared to 41 percent of the general population."
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