This State Is the Best to Spend Your Golden Years In (move, gorgeous)
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Iowa is listed in the top 10. Having lived there, I understand the conclusion. Crime and drug abuse are negligible compared to most states. The economy is good. You can leave your doors unlocked. Income and wealth are generally better than most of the South and Sunbelt at a similar cost of living.
I don't know what value you put on climate and weather, but Iowa is one severe place.
Florida ranks at the top of the best states for retirement.
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Iowa is listed in the top 10. Having lived there, I understand the conclusion. Crime and drug abuse are negligible compared to most states. The economy is good. You can leave your doors unlocked. Income and wealth are generally better than most of the South and Sunbelt at a similar cost of living.
I don't know what value you put on climate and weather, but Iowa is one severe place.
Iowa, like northern Illinois gets **** weather from Nov/Dec to may.
I'm not a fan of Florida but I do understand why people like to retire there. It must look awfully appealing to those who are tired of the long, cold, snowy, dreary winters in the northeast and midwest states. Hurricane season would scare me off, though I'm OK with earthquakes.
Yeah, I can also understand why people want to retire to Florida for the lack of cold and snow. But after living most of my life there, we couldn't be happier about having left. It was so much better, for a change, not to be sitting there last season doing the hurricane thing; tracking and wondering if one will or won't hit. Been there done that too many times. And I would not trade the 3 inches of snow and zero degree weather we have at this moment for the months of hot and humid we lived with in Central Florida. So we were glad to make room for someone else who wanted to be there
Hate articles like this. They don't fit everyone and assume all one retiree cares about is to have exactly the same things every other retiree does...and to pay the least for it. Personally I DESPISE Florida. Horrible weather, too many people, fairly predictable hurricanes, weird politics, businesses scrambling to take advantage of oldsters, ticky tacky "pseudo luxuries", the list goes on.
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Originally Posted by Bungalove
Florida, home to frequent hurricanes and flying cockroaches (aka palmetto bugs). I think I'll pass.
[quote=Spuggy;50721011] I would never want to end up in Florida �� Nothing about it appeals to me.[/QUOTE]
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Originally Posted by bpollen
I don't know why people like Florida. I've been there. It's hot, flat, and in a hurricane zone. Why do so many people move there? I don't get it.
Yeah, ALL of this sums it up for me as well, I have been there a couple of times and as they say, 'nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there'.
Traffic, congestion, huge bugs, really threatening weather. No thanks, winter up north looks like a piece of cake compared to hurricanes!
BUT, everyone's got their own idea of paradise, mine isn't Florida.
Oh here we go again with the Florida-hate. I'm going to defend my new home state, the one that I had no interest in until family circumstances led me here to the Gulf coast, moving full-time four years ago. But I'm not going to go ad nauseum about hurricanes and palmetto bugs (which I've never seen here, BTW). Suffice it to say, it's now my happy place. It's not perfect but name me one state that is. Until then, sunshine, palm trees, turquoise water, white-sand beaches, and gorgeous nature preserves put a smile on my face .
Florida ranks at the top of the best states for retirement.
Trying to plan ahead for where you'll spend your golden years? WalletHub has done a good portion of the legwork for you, looking closely at three categories—affordability, health care, and overall quality of life—in all 50 states to see which ones offer the best retirement options.
Interestingly, I like 4 of the top 10 (Colorado, Utah, Arizona & Idaho). Florida at #1 doesn't interest me, too hot and every so often you have to hide from a hurricane.
Florida is overrated.
I have an inheritance duplex in Florida, I will never live there. I will eventually sell and but a rental in our chosen retirement area/state, which is obviously NOT FLORIDA.
When my grandmother had her winter hone in Florida in the late 60s, and 70s,and if say even to the early 80s, florida was nice.
I was last there in 2002, and it is overrun with people, dirty and disgusting. Even Disney world was surrounded by a monster city, partly due to hoysibg the peopke who work there. Downtown Disney after about 5 o'clock had an element of people stepping in that was NOT comfortable. Since downtown Disney is free to go to, it allows riff raff that either can't afford DW in or who are just looming for tourist to harass and probably steal from. We left then for safety sake.
Even the duplex, a picturesque vacant part of town is now a not so good neighborhood as public housing was built on the picturesque lots across the street. If it didn't bring in revenue, was inherited paid for, it wouldn't be worth keeping.
No, we've picked another southern local, and will hopefully be able to travel to Hawai'i for the coldest months of Jan and Feb . For as long as,we are able anyway.
Nope no Florida for me/us as my OH wasn't impressed with Florida either and didn't care for it.
Florida has hurricanes, incredibly expensive house insurance, lots of humidity, alligators, snakes, congested roads, awful tasting tap water and sinkholes.
What's not to like?
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