Top 10 Retirement Cities For 2008
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The AARP has come out with their list of top retirement cities in the United States. Instead of staying in ones house as they get older, many retirees are looking to head someplace where they can enjoy the glory years.
One thing I am amazed at is the amount of cold weather cities on the list. I would think that a Wilmington, North Carolina with it’s temperate climate would have an edge over Ann Arbor or Madison. Both are college towns, but I can not imagine an 80 year old trying to navigate the cold and ice that is so prominent in the Michigan winters.
But that is me. I have always had an aversion to the cold weather since I left New York to come south.
Top 10 Retirement Cities For 2008
- Ann Arbor, Mich: Fully 86 percent of residents exercise daily and the city boasts 580 physicians per 100,000 people, compared to the U.S. average of 223.
- Honolulu: An impressive 95 percent of residents are covered by health insurance; residents spend more time exercising than almost any other city surveyed.
- Madison, Wisc: Residents have low rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
- Santa Fe, N.M.: The city ranked No. 2 in the U.S. in air quality by the American Lung Association; the rates of diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol are among the lowest in the country.
- Fargo, N.D.: Ranks No. 9 in the nation for regular flossing and brushing; it has one of the best air-quality-index scores, and it uses biodiesel fuel to power its transit buses.
- Boulder, Colo.: This is one of the nation’s healthiest cities with extremely low rates of smoking and obesity (BMI of 24.94).
- Charlottesville, Va.: Ranks among the top ten cities for family-practice doctors, oncologists and cardiologists, and it ranks fourth among U.S. metropolitan areas in the number of physicians per capita.
- Minneapolis-St. Paul: Residents rank among the top 10 in the country for share of residents who exercise regularly and the state is No. 1 in the nation for the overall quality of its healthcare by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- San Francisco Bay Area: Residents are among the least likely to be overweight and smoke, plus the city offers free or subsidized health care to uninsured residents.
- Naples-Marco Island, Fla.: Residents received very high scores for regular exercise, healthy eating and not smoking; the area has one of the lowest cancer mortality rates in the country.
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Comment by Jeff Buettner on 29 July 2008:
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Comment by Ann Arbor Real Estate on 30 July 2008:
Thanks AARP for rating Ann Arbor number 1. As an Ann Arbor resident, I will be the first to say that by about February, I need to get out of town to someplace warmer! I guess the weight of other factors out weighed the negative aspects of the cold winter. Certainly two things that make Ann Arbor vibrant are the University of Michigan and the U of M medical center hospitals. They bring a largely diverse and highly educated group of people to town that help make us what we are. These institutions also go a long way to keeping our economy strong and our real estate market healthy while so much of southeastern Michigan has suffered.
Andy Piper