The Best—and Worst—Places to Build a Nest Egg

A state-by-state look at how workers saving for retirement will fare

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Slideshow: The Best—and Worst—Places to Build a Nest Egg

Data Sources: The Tax Foundation, Case Shiller, Moody's Analytics, the National Association of Realtors, Equifax, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Census Bureau.

Methodology: For home prices, income, tax burdens, and unemployment, states were divided up into 10 brackets based on their relative performance. For each category, states in the bottom bracket received 1 point, while states in the top bracket received 10 points. States with preferential tax treatment for capital gains got a two-point bonus. The maximum total score that a state could receive is 42 points.

Tags:: recession,; housing,; housing market,; economy,; taxes,; retirement

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It's all conjecture, and impossible to qualify or quantify the benefit of retirement in any political subdivision as large and varied as a US state. General impressions can be misleading, as can pie in the sky trending and fluid lifestyle and economic characteristics purported to enchant or benefit a peculiar person, couple or group demographic...."Best Places to Retire" is Food for thought and high entertainment... definitely NOT a practical guide for retirement. If the intention was to provide an interesting read and promote specific regions of the US -- congratulations -- job well done! I always read it!

Don of PA 7:59AM May 09, 2013

You site has tooooooooooooooooooo many links, Extreeeeeeeeeeemly Tooooooooooooo many pop ups and does not know how to condence information and re hashes the same info over and over and over on evey page.

nunya of TX 4:19PM March 06, 2012

I live in NH and I think the unemployment stat is crap. Everyone I know that lives in NH actually works in Mass. That seems like cheating, don't you think. If you can live on a part time job at $7 an hour this is the place to be.

e of NH 10:34AM January 05, 2012