My post was about how much a million will buy in retirement is the rest of the country. Not just the few who live in AL.
I guess there are other factors too. Like if you live close enough to family (as we do) to not want to move to an expensive retirement community. There are also other things that get into personal preferences. For example, my free time bounces between visiting the grandkids, and/or getting my mother out of the nursing home for the day, or volunteering in church, including non-Sundays, and once or twice per week going to the Y to swim half a mile to a mile. None of those things are expensive habits/recreation.
Perhaps my perspective will change when I get older (again I'm quasi-retired in my mid-50's, projecting what I expect for life later when I'm both older and fully retired, but at the same time I'll have a little extra income coming in through SS if it still exists). Or perhaps I'll keep doing the things I'm doing, just more of them for a while (when I'll have more free time than I do now, but still be young enough to enjoy them, at least for a while).