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Like PamelaIamela said in the second post on the thread, the way this is getting reported is very misleading.
United's data don't have anything to say about raw numbers of retirees moving to New Mexico. They just show what *percentage* of United customers moving to NM are retirees. That's it.
We are almost certainly way, way down the list in terms of actual numbers of retirees moving in.
It would be interesting to know what states they are moving from. Is it Calif that leads the list? Then a survey done to find out if they remain in NM.
Is the number of people who relocated BEFORE retirement for family/employment and STAYED in the new state of residence for retirement. Thus, this data is misleading in terms of popularity of states deemed attractive for retirees.
There are problems with this type of survey but it might bear out in the next census data. New Mexico has a certain appeal for retirees --- who spend money, support the economy, and don't take jobs. The state could do more to attract them.
Anecdotally...
My social bubble is retirees, mostly, from all over.
I'm retired and moved here six years ago (Rio Rancho).
My immediate neighborhood is all retirees except for one recently arrived young family. (It's not a retirement community)
I have friends who plan on moving here in retirement -- from Arizona.
I know folks who moved here as retirees in the last year.
These stats and studies are always fun and great for bragging rights but are really pretty meaningless. they are to simplistic and this is the result of one moving company's experience. That being said, we did move to ABQ when we first retired: lower col than Texas and the nicest weather of anyplace we had lived. What a great place for golfers.
Whether NM is tops or not isn't that important. What is important is that NM is a popular place for retirees and as places like Phoenix become unbearably hot and over developed in part due to the influx of retirees and others, we can look forward to it getting more and more popular and these same "benefits" will increase in NM.
How about Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador!
They move where jobs are, ie. not New Mexico.
Retirees move where places are cheap, so possibly NM.
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wnat this data also doesn't tell you...
