DayDreaming
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I am very happily retired in #50 (New Jersey) and have no plans of leaving.#50 ..... can't wait to get out
I am very happily retired in #50 (New Jersey) and have no plans of leaving.#50 ..... can't wait to get out
That's a pretty cold top ten list. The sparsely populated western states don't usually feature in the "where to retire to" threads on this forum. A quick look at Bismarck's airport shows that traveling internationally from North Dakota would require a connection to a US hub first. This list doesn't seem to pass the "smell" test to me.
DH and I agree with your DW! I moved to Phoenix over thirty years ago and got accustomed to all the sunshine. Two years ago, DH and I decided that it was time to either undertake an expensive remodel of our existing home or consider a move. We wound up moving 100 miles north to Red Rock country and are so glad we did. We still get all the sunshine but a more moderate climate especially the summers. It's a more rural scene but we can access the amenities of nearby small cities and even the metro Phoenix area if we have to. Meanwhile, we have a large number of amenities within a mile of our home. Certainly with the covid-19 pandemic, we've found it fairly easy to avoid contact with people on our daily 5+ mile walks.I was suprised to find that our newly beloved AZ ranked slightly below the median for "quality of life", but found that weather/climate made up only 10% of the score. This maybe have been the case when we w*rked in offices all day, but now I would assign 70%+ of the quality of life score to the climate. For DW, having warm and sunny "winters" would make up 110% of quality of life! This doesn't leave many places in the USA since lower COL has been somewhat important.
We should do what China did with children, only one per family. (Just Kidding).
I note with pride that Texas is in the bottom ten. Hey, I tried to tell you.
2021's Best and Worst States to Retire
Imagine living in a state with not only the highest gasoline tax but also the highest liquor taxes.
I live in #41. Every year it battles NY as the state with the largest outbound population. Typically wins the honor as the highest property tax state and the most corrupt. Yet my actual city of Naperville, IL annually is named "the best place to live in America," or finishes in the top 3 places. Obviously different methodology is used for each survey.
I look forward to leaving IL once our daughter finishes college and establishes herself. But I do appreciate my city.
We're very happy to be living in our part of #45. As with all of these lists, the numbers are meaningless when you average things across an entire state.
Must be all those dang mud chiggers that gum up everything from high school football fields to [-]carburetors[/-] fuel injectors.
I live in a bottom half state - Washington. And even if only half of the tax increases proposed this year are passed it will go down farther. Imagine living in a state with not only the highest gasoline tax but also the highest liquor taxes.
The list is ridiculous. There is no way that Texas is a worse place to retire than Illinois....
Have you ever lived in Texas? It's too damned hot!
Have you ever lived in Texas? It's too damned hot!
You are, if nothing else, consistent. That said, now that we've been in Texas for over two years, I applaud your tenacity.^ What he said.
Interesting. Back in 2016, our kid worked in both Chandler, AZ and in Austin, TX on travel. Did not like AZ at all. Tried to jog in AZ in the early morning there in May and gave up. Has no such problem doing that in the Austin area, and still does it 4+ years later. I guess everyone is different.I “lived” there twice for a total of 3 months for work. Working outside in that heat was terrible. Texas at 95 feels hotter than Arizona at 115 to me.
We're 30 minutes (at least) from downtown Austin, and we're fine here in the suburbs (ask us 10 years from now!).But I think retirees could stay out of the Texas heat because retirees don’t have to go outside if they don’t have to. I wouldn’t mind living there. But not in a big city.
Seven degrees this morning in CT, wind chills in the negatives, and snow coming Monday-Tuesday. It really sucks when your job requires some outside activity... I could go for some “too damned hot” right now.
To be fair, we haven’t had a bad winter this season, but the older I get, the less tolerant I am of snow/cold.
Have you ever lived in Texas? It's too damned hot!