What goes unsaid is that you want to lure not just retirees, but resourceful retirees ? retirees with good income.

Some kind of adjustment has to happen. Home prices have been growing so fast for so long, outstripping income growth for many years.

The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke.

They want to follow some goal or dream they have.

When a city goes out and attracts a new factory that will have 100 jobs, it makes headlines in the paper. But the economic impact of those retirees will far and away exceed the economic impact of the industrial development. ... Retirees are really the most effective and efficient type of economic development for many of these little communities.

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.