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AARP calls Ann Arbor healthiest hometown in America

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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Surprise, surprise, Ann Arbor is on another Best Of... list. This time the town known for its young people is being heralded as a great home for senior citizens, too.

Not impressed? The Today Show was. They ran an entire segment on the top ten healthiest hometowns.

Excerpt:

Carol and Bob Mull moved to Ann Arbor in 1977�when Bob went to work as an engineer for Ford Motor Company�and they came to love it as they raised their family here. So when Bob retired nearly two years ago, they had no doubt that they�d stay put. "I always knew this was a special town," says Bob. "But it wasn�t until I retired that I realized how truly great this place is."

He�s enjoying having time to play as hard as he wants� both he and Carol play golf often and are big fans of the area�s YMCA. Carol, 55, is especially partial to swimming and yoga; Bob, 59, likes lifting weights, biking in some of the city�s 150 parks, and walking through the spectacular, 123-acre Nichols Arboretum, which boasts a mile of frontage along the rolling Huron River. The couple is also fully engaged in the community: Bob is an active member of the Rotary and spends Friday mornings tutoring fifth graders. Carol, a part-time curator, is writing a book about the region�s Underground Railroad.

What�s more, Ann Arbor is a hotbed of medical innovation. The University of Michigan Health Center is one of the largest university medical centers in the world, and it created the first human genetics program in the United States, in 1940.

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