10 Worst States to Retire In (AARP)

Since a lot of us are or near retirement, I thought this would be interesting. After all AARP has our best interests in mind.

http://www.aarp.org/work/retirement-...irement.2.html

Really surprised me that CA didn't make the top (or bottom, depending how you look at it) ten.

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Originally Posted by KJ6BSO

Really surprised me that CA didn't make the top (or bottom, depending how you look at it) ten.

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Well, going on the 3 main criteria.. crime, cost of living, and climate -- California has a lot of very safe moderately price rural-ish communities with great weather.. especially for seniors. :dunno: Seems like most of these places on the list are expensive and cold as heck. :)

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Originally Posted by W4GPL

Seems like most of these places on the list are expensive and cold as heck. :)

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Well, it was a list of the worst.

Me, I'm thinking of retiring in an arroyo in NM somewhere.

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Originally Posted by W4GPL

Well, going on the 3 main criteria.. crime, cost of living, and climate -- California has a lot of very safe moderately price rural-ish communities with great weather.. especially for seniors. :dunno: Seems like most of these places on the list are expensive and cold as heck. :)

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Yeah, I went and actually looked at the criteria after I made my post.

CA came in at #32, more or less at the bottom of the middle third, which seems about right. The tax burden is high here, although not as high as a lot of other states but the economy is okay and the climate, of course, is hard to beat.

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Originally Posted by kf0rt

Well, it was a list of the worst.

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Yeah, I know. I was just commenting as to why California probably wouldn't be on that list.

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Originally Posted by KJ6BSO

Yeah, I went and actually looked at the criteria after I made my post.

CA came in at #32, more or less at the bottom of the middle third, which seems about right. The tax burden is high here, although not as high as a lot of other states but the economy is okay and the climate, of course, is hard to beat.

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California gets a lot of crap for being a hopeless ungovernable wasteland full of freaks just waiting to drop into the ocean, but any time I'm there (outside of urban LA), I always love it. The countryside towns, especially up north are great. I could certainly see myself settling in a place like that.

Wow, NYS has the 6th highest cost of living?

I guess they just average it, because the COL in WNY is decidedly lower than most of the nation. NYC must be skewing the entire state hard.

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Originally Posted by KC2UGV

Wow, NYS has the 6th highest cost of living?

I guess they just average it, because the COL in WNY is decidedly lower than most of the nation. NYC must be skewing the entire state hard.

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NYC skews everything in NYS, as Emperor Bloomberg would have it.

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Originally Posted by W4GPL

California gets a lot of crap for being a hopeless ungovernable wasteland full of freaks just waiting to drop into the ocean, but any time I'm there (outside of urban LA), I always love it. The countryside towns, especially up north are great. I could certainly see myself settling in a place like that.

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Yeah, I love Northern California. Of course, I hail from there so I'm probably not exactly a detached observer. My XYL had to drag me kicking and screaming down here to San Diego because I thought it would be just an extension of LA. Turns out that it's not at all, in fact it's got more in common with the Bay Area--an abiding dislike of Los Angeles being one commonality.