Posted on 11/30/2024 7:48:55 AM PST by Labyrinthos
To identify the best places to retire, U.S. News analyzed data for the 150 top cities in the U.S. to assess how well they meet Americans' retirement needs and expectations...
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Hickory and Greenville SC were the only decent ones I saw. Stay out of cities. Move to places with low cost of living to maximize retirement income.
Rankings such as these, all depend on the criteria that they used to judge these cities.
All of us have individual different criteria of places we would want to live.
I doubt rankings such as these in the media are very helpful to people,,as they decide where to retire.
Well I guess all we need is money 💰💰💰!!
Perhaps, but unless I had children or grandchildren nearby, a low cost of living is not enough to entice me retire to Fort Wayne Indiana or Buffalo or Albany NY.
#1 Naples, Florida
Yeah, if you can afford the houses there.
I agree the large cities listed make this a crock.
As for compromises, I lived and retired in a suburb to a large city which was real affordable when i bought in 2012. Surprise, AZ. Medical was great and local amenities abound. Little crime but neighborhoods were a little too closely built.
I moved to a wonderful small town in rural NC as all my family was in the east and bad health fights make this easier for the wife, but I hate NC bugs and weather.
New York City, NY, #3 in Best Places to Retire
So why are New Yorkers ( especially those around NYC ) leaving by the hundreds of thousands?
I have met an incredibly large and varied group of people in my life—including many residents of NYC and adjacent areas.
Nobody has ever said “When I retire I want to live in NYC.”
Nobody.
Can you believe they named New York City number 3 best place to live when you retire. That’s funny.
Only the brain dead retire to nyc
Listing El Paso, TX as #19 in the safest place to live tells me all I need to know about how worthless these ratings are.
“Rankings such as these, all depend on the criteria that they used to judge these cities.”
I don’t know of this one but it was revealed in the past that one of the criteria was how much the city “donated” to the firm that commissioned the rankings.
#12 in Best Places to Retire Washington, DC
This survey is absurd
San Francisco, CA
#14 in Best Places to Retire
Washington DC missed the list again but somehow the Obamas live in DC.
Washington DC has a housing affordability score of 6.5? If you want to live in the heart of the ghetto, maybe. If you want to live where any elder person would feel at all safe, it’s gotta be somewhere less than 1. But then, even NYC got a 3.7.
This article is pure nonsense
“New York City, NY, #3 in Best Places to Retire
So why are New Yorkers ( especially those around NYC ) leaving by the hundreds of thousands?”
For the reasons that are not reflected in the rankings — Overall tax burden, oppressive government regulation and oversight, and one-party rule. Also, while the NYC crime rate is still low compared to other large cities (for now), I suspect that crime affects nearly all neighborhoods and is not just hood neighborhoods. Here’s an example: https://nypost.com/2024/11/30/us-news/nycs-uws-rocked-by-surging-crime-including-carjackings/
# 2 and # 3 couldn’t be worse. This article is total BS
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