Matt Frankel

Now, obviously different factors are important to different people.

For example, my wife can't stand to be cold, period.

So climate and weather would definitely play a role, even over things like housing affordability in a lot of cases for us.

But, you know, I totally understand where the methodology came from.

Quality of life, for example, it totally makes sense that's number one.

The number one retirement killer is boredom, right?

Everyone, you know, that's been well documented that, you know, people want things to do when they leave the workforce.

So that makes a lot of sense.

Healthcare access obviously makes sense.

You use healthcare several times more after you're retired than you do when you're still working.

But it is very personal specific and there are other factors that matter to a lot of people.

For example, proximity to your family and friends.

My parents wouldn't move to one of these top counties if it was free because their grandchildren are here.

There's a lot of different moving parts here, which is why we gave 50 different locations instead of just naming one for everybody.

Matt, your thoughts on the rankings?

There were a few surprises to be.

So I'm going to name my top four surprises here.

So number one is that there was nothing from South Carolina where I live, not just because I live here, obviously, but because it did rank number one in net migration in the United States recently.

Half of my neighborhood is retired people from somewhere else.

We have great weather, great cost of living.