The 10 Best Places to Retire in 2012

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Is this writer on drugs.............MI, CA, NY, PA, MA, NM are the highest tax states in the nation.....I'm thinking this writer is on obama's payroll

Ken Bandilla of TX 1:27AM January 20, 2012

STUPID most of those places are in freezing parts of the country.
Who would like to retire to Boone, NC? We are not talking about looking for a cemetery here.

Charly of CA 3:28PM January 18, 2012

The old standby Florida is still a great place to retire says the "Florida Move Guide". Warmer (hot?) than most on this list. Home prices are still low but recovering, still some bargains. Should have secure income because unemployment amoung the hightest in US but recovering faster than most according to the FED.

JJ Hopkins of PA 9:32AM January 17, 2012

Wow, have these fools ever spent a winter in Flagstaff? Cold and snowy.
Also, how well will many older/elderly people do at 7,000+ feet elevation? (Flagstaff and Santa Fe).
Traverse City, MI? Excuse me, can you say 'Lake-effect' snow belt?
This list is a farce... poorly researched drivel from an overpaid 'journalist'.

CommonCents of AZ 2:34AM January 15, 2012

Most retirees I know are moving OUT of the USA - like to Mexico, etc. They can avoid the hefty US taxes and the quality of life and cost of living in these countries is CONSIDERABLY less with roughly the same acoutrements. Of course, the US propaganda rags know this and have been portraying Mexico as a nation plagued with drug executions (albeit fueled by our own domestic drug consumption).

seaforte of CA 4:33AM January 14, 2012

When one opens a web page that advertises
"The cheapest place to retire" and finds
information about the USA, don't expect
me to buy what you are selling.

Robert of GA 3:21PM January 04, 2012

Florida has homestead real estate tax reduction, no personal income tax, excellent asset protection of retirement funds and home equity. Lots of sunny days, leaves on the trees all year but there are drawbacks like the humidity 7-9 months a year. The town chosen to live in especially important.

FLA Move Guide of PA 9:38AM January 04, 2012

I live in Asheville NC Boone NC is 25 mins away. Here you pay a federal income tax and a state income tax and now we have the highest fuel tax of any state any.So this is not a state to retire in Florida is a much less expensive state to retire in. We will probably not stay here when we retire also have a personal property tax on vehicles it all adds up.

J.P of NC 8:18PM January 01, 2012

Jim Jarrett, there's always options. Every state I've been in has low income for seniors, many of them has an age of 55 to move in. The rent is based on your income. In Flagstaff there's many senior trailer parks that are very nice and kept up beautifuly, these are completly within a social security budget. I feel your pain, I lost my good paying job due to downsizing, and we are now living on my husbands income, which is ok, but nothing great. He has no pension at his job so when he retires we will have to live on social security and his 401K which has lost over 150 thousand in the last two years. It's starting to recover but very slowly. We wanted to be retired now, but can't with the loss in the 401K. Keep a positive outlook.

Maggie of WI 1:11PM January 01, 2012

Every article like this that I've read assumes that one has a home to sell. Many of us already live in apartments that we'll no longer be able to afford after retirement. In addidion, buying a home in retirement for $100K-$200K is not feasible for most of us. Most of us are already living the low life style of retirement right now. The reality is that in future, that life style will have to be much lower. If that's even possible. So not all of us can pay $2,000/month for rent plus monthly apartment retirement fees. Some of us have no family, no friends that can take us in, and some of us have little chance of making it to retirement.
Many of us need information for the above scenario. I've never seen one. If one can afford a $100,000 house, odds are they can afford to live relatively well in retirement. The rest of us who have to live on social security of $1,178 will have to live in sub-standard housing in dangerous neighborhoods (because they are cheaper) and after the utilities are paid, and medications are purchased will have very, very little for food. For some of of it is that way now. We'll be going from nice apartments in nice neighborhoods with enough income from working to pay the bills. After retiring, I do not know where to turn, to go, or who to ask for help.

Jim Jarrett of TX 3:10PM December 30, 2011