2019 best and worst states for retirement: Oregon falls way down list; Minnesota looks attractive (Portland: big house, camping)

[5gables]

The Beaver State landed at No. 35 overall.

https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/news...tates-for.html

[Johnny Z]

Thanks but I'll stay right here.

[V8 Vega]

If Minnesota is attractive then this list like so many others didn't consider one of the most important things to me, weather.

[Thom52]

Yup, nothing to see, just keep moving right along.

[NW4me]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

If Minnesota is attractive then this list like so many others didn't consider one of the most important things to me, weather.

If you already live in a place with a "challenging" climate, like Minnesota, Vermont, etc.,
maybe you'd like to stay put in retirement... but why would someone move to a place like that
to spend his/her senior years? Too #@&% cold, even if the scenery is nice and the people polite.

[Cloudy Dayz]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

If Minnesota is attractive then this list like so many others didn't consider one of the most important things to me, weather.

Yeah, Minnesota is a fantastic place to live, if you like shoveling snow six months a year in sub-zero temperatures. The article is just more clickbait nonsense.

[ccjarider]

Originally Posted by Cloudy Dayz

Yeah, Minnesota is a fantastic place to live, if you like shoveling snow six months a year in sub-zero temperatures. The article is just more clickbait nonsense.

While it is true, the article is clickbait, your description of Minnesota is 100% melodramatic. Its like saying it rains all winter in Portland.

Further there is a little benefit to having some colder weather around for a while - It helps keep out RIFF RAFF.

Oregon is full of crappy, low life people strewing garbage around streets, parks; and begging on corners.
(This attraction comes from numerous reasons - one being the weather)

[BendLocal]

I spent years living in a moderate climate and hated it. I'll take dry, cold, and snowy over the rainy western side of the cascades any day.

[Thom52]

I was born in Minnesota.

A wondrous place. Everyone should move there! Land of 10,000 lakes makes it a water playground, bug free camping(in winter). Big houses on a big chunk of land for a fraction of west coast prices. A well run state government and even a useable transit system.

Before I retired, I would get calls from job recruiters for Minnesota jobs. I told them the one good thing my parents did for me was move me out of Minnesota when I was 3 years old.

You need that big house in Minnesota, because you will be spending so much time inside it. Which works out fine for many people.

[texasdiver]

You value what you measure. If a major component of your metric is tax burden and housing prices then places like the Dakotas are going to rate highly. Most people use a much more sophisticated personal analysis than what can be done by these sorts of rankings that just take a half dozen or so publically available data sets and crank out a weighted ranking.