And ranks 50th in personal freedoms
Posted on 04/15/2026 5:38:50 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too
A new ranking of top destinations for retirees to relocate trades green golf courses and sunny beaches for urban density and concrete jungles.
Really.
New York City ranks No. 1 in the new Geography of Prosperity Index, a ranking of 250 urban areas in America by global analytics firms HumanChange and Motivf.
At the other end, the cities millions of Americans choose for retirement — pulled by warm weather, low taxes, low density, and a low cost of living — rank at or near the very bottom of this measure of urban health...
The Villages in Lady Lake, Fla, for example, ranks dead last. It’s the largest retirement community in the United States but scores near the floor on every metric that predicts long-term urban vitality.
“For retirees planning to spend two or three decades in these markets, the data raises urgent questions about long-term livability, financial stability, and quality of life that the conventional relocation conversation has largely ignored,” he said...
Palm Springs and the whole Coachella Valley will have to cut water consumption by 40% by 2040. “That means that you won't be able to irrigate the golf courses anymore,” Schurman said...
“New York City did pretty well on climate resilience,” he said. “New York City floods all the time, but it has the institutional capacity to respond to those things when they occur...”
After New York, Durham, N.C., and Ann Arbor, Mich., rank No. 2 and No. 3 in the index, followed by Boston, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Mid-size university cities consistently outperformed metros many times their size.
Other Florida locales, including Port Charlotte, Sarasota, Vero Beach, Ocala, Bonita Springs, and Cape Coral, along with Myrtle Beach, S.C., Palm Springs, Calif., and McAllen, Texas, all rank near the bottom.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
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According this article, retirees want:
-PJ
Piled higher and deeper.
This is moronic.
Perverse.
And ranks 50th in personal freedoms
and especially not if you are white.
5. Join the Warriors ?
If one is super rich then parts of NYC must be a heaven of fine living for an old person who loves a plush neighborhood of Michelin food and stage plays and operas while vacationing on ocean cruises and in Europe’s top hotels, parts of the NYC and foreign cities well served by servants and service people catering to the wealthy.
Believe me, seniors don’t worry too much about the future. Least of all climate change. We all got one foot in the grave already.
Warriors, come to to plaaay yay....
Wait until 2029 to retire in NYC. The new city-run grocery store will be ready to open................
Yeah. Great place to retire.
An 83-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran, Richard Williams, died after being randomly shoved onto subway tracks in Manhattan on March 8, 2026, by a suspect with a lengthy criminal record. The suspect, 34-year-old Bairon Hernandez, was charged with murder after the incident, which occurred at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Street station.
Suspect: Bairon Hernandez, a Honduran national, was charged with second-degree murder and five counts of assault. He had previously been deported four times and has a record of 15 prior charges.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-subway-push-homicide-upper-east-side
I read a few weeks ago that The Villages in Florida ranksed #1 in VD in the state.😳
What utter BS this is. But it is Yahoo, so right on their standard BS.
-PJ
Can you dig it?
>>This article must describe Bizarro world.
According to the “Geography of Prosperity” website, their metrics are:
Climate Change
AI
Population Renewal
Social Cohesion
Governance (The quality of local leadership)
“The quality of local leadership”... yeah that MUST be why NYC lead the pack.
Don’t mind the maggots.
Shadoobie!
-PJ
Yes. Escape from NYC more likely.
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