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If you had to pick JUST ONE overriding factor that most influences (or influenced) your choice of where to retire, which of these would it be?
(realizing that usually there are several extremely important factors, in most cases, but in this case it would be the one that would, or did, tip the scales for-or-against a particular location choice)
I chose financial. Although the others are extremely important, in my case, I have all of the others already where I am (CA) but I honestly can't afford to retire here.
This is one of those decisions that I would never let any factor be an overriding factor. I see thinking of any of the several of the items on your list that are critically important as more important than the others as counter-productive to the intent to make a good decision.
This is one of those decisions that I would never let any factor be an overriding factor. I see thinking of any of the several of the items on your list that are critically important as more important than the others as counter-productive to the intent to make a good decision.
But when one gets to the point of narrowing down their choices between places that have essentially the same balance of important positives and negatives (assuming there is no "clear winner", and with the multiplicity of factors that's probably unlikely), there must be SOMETHING that tips the scales in favor of one location versus the other.
In other words: All other things being essentially equal, what factor would make you choose State "A" (or specific part of State A) over State (or specific part of) "B"?
Impossible to pick just one.................like the OP demanded.
Mine was weather and financial and those two can't be separated and stand by themselves.
No reason for me to even consider a low COL area if I didn't like the weather there.
No reason for me to even consider a favorable weather location if the COL was high.
Thus, those 2 can never be separated in my decision.
Its not hard to pick on. In almost all regions/states you can find areas of low crime and affordable cost of living. But weather is something you deal with every day and has a huge effect on your hobbies, activities, lifestyle, cost of living, and mental and physical health. Weather is numero uno.
I'm single so proximity to family is the most important factor. I'm not going to relocate to a place where I don't know anybody - not that adventuresome or masochistic. Given that I have a large family so a few choices of where to relocate (although most of them live in the same state but it is a very large state), the second most important factor is weather. If I had a partner, weather would be the most important factor.
But when one gets to the point of narrowing down their choices between places that have essentially the same balance of important positives and negatives (assuming there is no "clear winner", and with the multiplicity of factors that's probably unlikely), there must be SOMETHING that tips the scales in favor of one location versus the other.
No there doesn't.
Beyond that, the chances of the aggregation of a number of factors yields a virtual tie is far smaller than the chances that one factor rationally would be the tie-breaker. A more plausible arrangement would be that a reassessment is warranted, reevaluating all the factors, to see if deeper consideration of all them changes the balance.
None of the above for me. I moved back to the town where I went to college, which was always my plan. I feel most at home here.
It was a good decision.
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