‘SoHo for seniors’: Rich retirees who fled to Florida are buying ‘med-à-terres’ in NYC just to keep seeing their doctors

For decades, wealthy retirees have headed to Florida for the sunshine, lower taxes and year-round warm weather. But many are discovering that one thing is harder to relocate than an investment portfolio: trusted medical care.

Now, a growing number of affluent former New Yorkers are buying small second homes back in the city — often called “med-à-terres” — so they can continue seeing the doctors and specialists they’ve relied on for years.

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Melissa Talarico is one of them. After spending 40 years working in the city, the 72-year-old spends much of the year in Miami as she eases into retirement, but she and her 75-year-old husband haven’t fully severed their ties to Manhattan.

“You leave a place, and you think you’re done there,” she told the Wall Street Journal.“But you’re not.”…

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