Whitefish, Montana
Albert Lea, Minnesota
Montpelier, Vermont
Middlebury, Vermont
Galena, Illinois
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
Ashland, Wisconsin
It's like Jackson, WY. Totally unaffordable and flooded with rich people. But we do like the town and have visited there several times on our way to Glacier National Park from Idaho.
We are staying there for three nights next July with my sister and BIL. We just got an email from the lodge we are staying at that there is a big Americana / Country / Rock music festival in town the weekend we are there and they jacked our room rate up $100 per night!
I'm really glad they did not put Coeur d'Alene on the list. Nobody should move there. Nosirree. Horrible place.
Under the Big Sky at the Big Mountain Ranch, July 18-20, 2025.
Brrrrr
Weeks upon weeks of cold and gray sky
Forget it
I would agree with only Whitefish, Mont., but who could live with the State Income Tax?
Not me. Great place to visit, but not to establish permanent residency.
Bozeman, Mont. is better, but still the State ITax precludes permanent residency.
I’m not too fond of heat and humidity, so when I retire, I’ll stay in New England.
I’m so glad small town Indiana gets overlooked by all of these lists.
We get 4 seasons in NWFL, including some autumn leave colors and very infrequent snow. Wouldn’t trade that for sliding on sidewalks in my old age!
I’ll stay in my rural Hawaii home thank you.
A winter and summer in North Dakota cured me of the mid west.
21 winters just 30 miles east of Seattle with living costs being essentially the same, I’ll take my rural Hawaii.
No sales tax...
No income tax...
No inheritance taxes...
You can hunt on Sunday.
Plus, gun possession is mandatory. If you don't have a gun you can pick up a loaner from any LEO when you enter the state.
I live around 40 miles from Galena, IL. It is not low cost. Lot of Chicago people have vacation homes there.
Opins are like azzholes as they say... everyone has one. These articles are written by idiots with nothing else to do
Middlebury, Montpelier?!
Okay, I want some of whatever the author is smoking.
They’re all cold weather towns. I’d think Florida, Texas, Louisiana would be better due to the warmer weather and better economy.
Montpelier VT is starting to get some of the homeless issues of Burlington.
Rural is much better.
What they should have said is comfortable places for seniors if they have a second home in Florida for the winter.