10 Worst States to Retire In (AARP)

[KK4AMI]

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

[NQ6U]

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

[W4GPL]

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

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

[kf0rt]

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

Well, it was a list of the worst.

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

[NQ6U]

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

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.

[W4GPL]

Well, it was a list of the worst.

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

[W4GPL]

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.

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.

[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.

[N8YX]

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.

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

[NQ6U]

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.

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.