What Do Storage Units Have to Do With Boomer Boom Towns?

The SpareFoot logo. Courtesy of SpareFoot.

I’m not at all sure what self-storage units have to do with boomer boom towns.

But as I wrote in my previous  post, it was the blog on the website of SpareFoot — an online site to find and reserve storage units across the country — where I learned what the top 15 Boomer boom towns in the U.S. are, at least by Sparefoot’s calculations. (San Antonio, Texas, tops their list, which is based on several criteria, including boomer population growth, number of health care workers, and some economic data.)

And that’s what I like about the SpareFoot blog — it’s filled with some entertaining, educational and unexpected surprises. Some of which are related to baby boomer travel.

For instance, besides the boomer boom towns entry, there’s one post naming the fastest-growing college towns in the U.S. based on population growth… Continue reading →