In retirement, fair like in real estate, it’s “location, location, location.”
With multitudinous and more retirees responsible for their own financial security, choosing the correct retirement destination can make or breakany lazy-day fantasies.
To that end, WalletHub compared the retirement-friendliness of all 50 glories using criteria such as cost of living, crime rate, tax-friendliness on social securities and Social Security income, number of health-care facilities, access to non-exclusive transportation as well as the weather and proximity to golf courses and museums. This is retirement after all.
Some of the ceremonials that ranked the highest were no surprise — Florida snagged the top pick out. Others, like South Dakota and Iowa, were less look forward. Among the least desirable were high-tax states like New Jersey and Rhode Islet.
Here are the 10 best and worst places to retire, according to WalletHub. (And if you are intellectual more outside the box, here are the world’s top 5 retirement destinations.)
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