I definitely plan to move when I retire. Just don't know where yet, because I can't bear to be too far from my children.
But I don't trust these "scores" especially when they include stuff like "culture" "wellness" and "weather".
Ok, I don't like humid summers and cold winters. I also don't like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, hail, mudslides, volcanoes, forest fires, drought and earthquakes. I don't like alligators, mosquitoes, red ants, palmetto bugs, snakes, varmints and pigeons.
I couldn't care less about "culture". I don't know what I am supposed to "get" from culture, but after all of my years, I am not going to "get" anything from it now.
I want a place with reliable weather, low taxes, access to medical. a city not too far away. I want land to relax on, maybe garden in, I want neighbors who I can live with peaceably and I want to have friends in my old age.
That said, I will probably find a retirement community in the Sun Belt with my wife. Or perhaps the Pacific Northwest. If it weren't for the fact that I basically despise Canada, British Columbia wouldn't be too bad. Weather up there is mild. And if Washington state wasn't so liberal, I'd choose them, if only for the lack of state taxes.
