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Your link takes you to a list of 125 cities with population of 50k or more. Why do you call it best "large cities?" You do have the option to filter x-large, large, medium, or small though.
Anyway, interesting to see Jacksonville at #6. I don't think it's often on these top retirement lists.
Your link takes you to a list of 125 cities with population of 50k or more. Why do you call it best "large cities?" You do have the option to filter x-large, large, medium, or small though...
Hah! By their definition, every city in Idaho is a "small" city. Personally, I wouldn't call Boise small. I think it is time to use a different criteria for size than a political boundary.
Hah! By their definition, every city in Idaho is a "small" city. Personally, I wouldn't call Boise small. I think it is time to use a different criteria for size than a political boundary.
I would agree with you, except I glanced at the list again and they are indeed using MSA not city populations. Hence why there are 21 places on the list with over 2.5M population and also why they start at 50k (the minimum pop for an MSA)
This is merely a ranking of the 125 largest metropolitan areas in the country. As it says in the very first paragraph:
To identify the best places to retire, U.S. News analyzed data for the 125 largest metropolitan areas in the USA to assess how well they meet Americans' retirement needs and expectations.
The OP's original title, when this thread was originally posted in the General U.S. forum, was "best places for retirement" which was a gross misrepresentation of the actual list. Not everyone wants to retire in a large city/metro area, so I changed the title to more accurately reflect that the study used only the 125 largest metropolitan areas in the country. Maybe I should've changed it to "Best Large MSAs to Retire to" instead. Anyway, then I moved the thread to the Retirement forum which is where it belongs.
I, for one, don't want to retire to anywhere in that list because I do not want to retire to a large metro area.
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Why do people keep sharing these articles/lists? Ask another pundit get a totally different answer. Almost as bad as the whole "medical studies now show..." refuting the exact opposite found by the previous study. Who funds the article and who hopes to benefit from it skew every sentence. Define "best" and for who.
Why do people keep sharing these articles/lists? Ask another pundit get a totally different answer. Almost as bad as the whole "medical studies now show..." refuting the exact opposite found by the previous study. Who funds the article and who hopes to benefit from it skew every sentence. Define "best" and for who.
I take them as merely thought starters - they may compare on a different facet than I'd considered before. But again, they are only the START, I'd go much beyond one or even several lists before then doing a deeper dive.
I wish posters would not only post the link but their personal observations about the link. Anyone can see the original article outside of this forum. What makes the forum useful is how individuals interpret and comment. IMHO
Why do people keep sharing these articles/lists? Ask another pundit get a totally different answer. Almost as bad as the whole "medical studies now show..." refuting the exact opposite found by the previous study. Who funds the article and who hopes to benefit from it skew every sentence. Define "best" and for who.
Actually I like reading these list, the problem is people take them as gospel. Truthfully I look at them to see possibilities. It's a quick and easy way to peruse a lot of information. some times they will get me to visit.
Lots of buggy FL cities! I can see why they'd be pushing cities like Sarasota or FT. Myers, as they're headed for being underwater one day, so let's sell, sell, sell to those who are in denial of climate changes.
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