City Guides

Home to camellias, cotton, and Crimson Tide, Alabama is one of the best places you can retire not only in the Southern U.S.. It’s a supremely senior-friendly state with warm weather year-round, Gulf Coast towns to settle down, and golf courses for days. Affordability is another major perk of retiring in Alabama, with a low cost of living and plenty of tax benefits for retirees to enjoy. Read on for the full breakdown.

California is well known as the land of sunshine, surfing, and movie stars. But that’s just skimming the surface of this huge and wondrous land. If you’re thinking of moving to California, you’ll want to dig a bit deeper. Read on, future Californians, for 14 truly important things you should know about the land, food, and people of the Golden State. At the end, we’ve even thrown in a few tips for making your move to California as smooth as possible.

When you’re busy nailing down your retirement plan details, there’s likely one major consideration at the forefront of a lot of your decisions: your impending fixed income. So it only makes sense that you would want to live out those golden years in a place where you can stretch your budget as far as possible. Hence, we’ve created this list of the most affordable places to retire. 

With perks like high-quality amenities and year-round attractions to bring the grandkids to, it’s easy to see why Florida is a retiree’s paradise. Here are 12 locations that are so great, we consider them to be some of the overall best places to retire in Florida.

San Francisco packs a lot of punch for a city that’s only 7×7 (or 49 square miles). With its iconic Golden Gate Bridge, colorful Victorian row houses, and funky, diverse districts, the City by the Bay is a great place to live — if you can afford the hefty price tag. Our guide is here to help you find out which SF neighborhood is right for you and your lifestyle.