Sunday, November 26, 2017
Best/Worst Places to Retire?
Wallet Hub has compiled a list of the best and worst places to retire. I don't understand their methodology and "gut reaction" says they have it entirely wrong. See if you can make sense of these rankings:
From what I can tell... scratch that. It doesn't make sense. To me.
If you are happy where you are, then it is the right place.
ReplyDeleteOrlando? Yeah things to do Tampa? Miami? Home of the Traffic Jam.
ReplyDeleteExpensive things to do.
DeleteNewark awful
DeleteTamPA is n the place to drive to to get to St pete.
ReplyDeleteTwelve of the bottom 17 are California cities.
ReplyDeleteLOL
A lot of them, didn't count,m in the too are Florida cities. Ladies in the unitarian church who left California, say they couldnt go back due to house prices m
ReplyDeleteThat's top. Puzzled
ReplyDeleteFresno almost as bad as Jersey city???
ReplyDeleteAnd there's Oxnard.
ReplyDeleteYou mean the dark green area from the previous post? Funny that. A place so ugly they need to pay hosholds the highest salaries just to live there? We should discuss this more.
DeleteOceanside is the worst?? It has the best beaches in North SD County and the only strip club - right across the street from the Chamber of Commerce and the California Welcome Center!
ReplyDeleteWait. There’s a CoC and CA Welcome Center there too?
DeleteFrom the comments on their "methodology" page:
ReplyDelete> Bingo Halls, Art Galleries, and Museums received the same weight as taxes?
In general, they heavily weighted a lot of things that most people will probably never care about. "Affordability" is only 25% of the total score, equally weighted with "Activities", in which single-interest items each received a heavy weight.
Very poorly designed.
They also totally have the quality of health care metric messed up.
ReplyDeleteThe real problem is something demographers always struggle with. I consider Disney Hall, Hollywood Bowl and Getty Museum as part of my cultural sphere. In the other direction; Santa Barbara Zoo, the Amphitheater and all that are available. And please, having access to Cedars Sinai and UCLA Medical is considered low health care quality?
My favorite insult to Fresno is the sane as my favorite compliment to Fresno.
ReplyDelete“Two hours from everything.”
> We should discuss this more.
ReplyDeleteBut not in public. Stay Away!!!
You more than anyone should know I can bust on Oxnard like no other.
ReplyDelete>Wait. There’s a CoC and CA Welcome Center there too?
ReplyDeleteYes but easy to miss as you come out of the club's darkness - you get blinded by the sun all the way to your car.
Remember?
There is also a casino across the freeway, and several bingo halls filled with seniors - a fine city!
Bingo is only a place where you have an excuse to get out and meet friends.
ReplyDeleteCruelly I Like To watcH PEople LosinG moNEY At The casino. And marvel why they would do that.
I’ve been known to drop a dozen dollars on mechanical slots in Las Vegas in a single weekend. Once even got a weak gin and tonic from a waitress that was worth more than the dollar tip.
ReplyDeleteAny bad publicity about how awful Kalipornikatya is is good Publicity!!!
ReplyDeleteSTAY AWAY!!!
We visited an Indian casino on the coast a short while back. Dropped a whole $10 in penny slots and surprisingly won $80. Decided that was a high enough note to leave on.
ReplyDeletep.s.: Enjoying the rain up here!
There is usually a couple of simple slot machines in each bar/cafe. The license from the gov. says, License for Extortion.
DeleteAn enjoyable retirement means having things to do in the price range you can afford. Having friends /family near.
ReplyDeleteI don't see how the decision of where to live in retirement could be made from someone else's list.
Agreed. Hub wanted to move to Raleigh Durham for no reason I can see. We didn't.
DeleteAnd some place near to get blood tests. Groan.
ReplyDeleteGun. Who thinks gun manufactures should, out of the goodNess of their hearTs and promotion of civilization, pay therdical bills of. People who made it to the hospital, and owe medical bill
ReplyDeleteThe medical bills
ReplyDeleteGood Morning!
ReplyDeleteAlcohol manufacturers should pay for all drunk driving accidents and deaths as should druged drivers, etc. Misuse and crazy people are the problem not the method. They fined the tobacco companies and they paid big money to states instead of to Medicare for cancer treatments. Highly unlikely the right thing would be done with money extorted from the gun manufacturers anyway. IMO.
Not to the drunks but the victims.
ReplyDeleteDo you think the victims should pay the hospital bills? Or, when they don't the hospitals should do nroke?
ReplyDeleteThe drunks become the victims, just like the gun owners would become victims.
ReplyDeleteMost people who have a drink never kill someone while driving. Most people who own guns never shoot anyone.
Use vs. abuse.
No company can supervise all the customers.
In Az. I get a background check if I buy a gun at a store or pawn shop.
ReplyDeleteI can sell that same gun to my neighbor without any paperwork, or any notification to any Gov entity.
I don't think you should be able to do that. Maybe meet at a gun store, to do the bacgound check and transfer
DeleteJust medical bills for bills that exceed the Insurance payments. And I said through through the goodness of their hearts, some what sarcastically I admit. So no extortion
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason for medical insurance, including car insurance. Insurance is to protect your wealth, Hospitals don't turn people away at the time of an event as the law dictates. So yes the hospitals absorb the of the cost of the uncollected and I am sure they get tax breaks to help out. If you don't have insurance then you take the risk that catastrophic events won't happen to you.
ReplyDeleteIf we blame every event and sickness on somebody or something then we would have no need for insurance and free medical care for everybody as we are all victims of some thing.
There should be checks then too.
ReplyDeleteYou're a lawyer. Why do you persist in pursuing something that's obviously unconstitutional?
DeleteChecks will do very little. There is a way around just about everything. Besides criminals and the sick will find other methods available. Like renting a truck.
ReplyDeleteShould we not have rule against rape and murder because they can't be enforced. And yes, access to mental health should be greatly expanded
ReplyDeleteAnd we should do a lot more mental health research. Mental health, I would guess is 100 years behind physical research.
DeleteMental health research gets it wrong at times. The self esteem generation. Helicopter parents. Keeping up with the Jones.
ReplyDeleteProduct advertising, movies .....
Of course. No reason to stop research.
ReplyDeleteI don't see what the last 2 thing have to do with mental health research, except that helicopter parents are ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteI see lots of causation. Product advertising. Why aren't you successful? you don't have a new Jaguar. Your teeth aren't white enough, you are too fat, all a form of psychological trauma.
ReplyDeleteComing at you every 10 minutes on TV, from birth. Did you know there is a cable channel just for infants?
DeleteThere is one for dogs too.
Helicopter parents don't allow a child to become an independent adult. The parents are always there to fix it, to guide every minute.
ReplyDeleteEveryone falls down. What matters is how you get up. What happens when a person never experiences falling down? Or is always helped up?
How will they deal with failure as an adult?
They become Trump.
DeleteDid you know there is a cable channel just for infants?
ReplyDeleteThere is one for dogs too.
Same channel?
Seriously. Do not forget the home improvement channels to exploit residence insecurity.
Remember the idiot finance talking heads claiming credit is wealth and your home is your savings account? Then 2008 went boom and all the banksters walked free with everyone's wealth, including those of us who didn't play.
ReplyDeleteYep.none went to jail.
DeleteOT. A picture of the puff pastry pinched brie honey almond appetizer. Leftovers and the sliced fresh apple is not visible:
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Brie and apple. Divine.
DeleteLast dinner in Spain. Excellent.
ReplyDeleteAlmost time for sleep.
Just under 24 hours of travel time tomorrow. Hope to sleep on the London to LAX 11 hr leg.
I can never sleep on airplanes
ReplyDeleteLucky you.
Good drugs. Scrip by Dr of course.
DeleteNo left overs here we sent it home with the kid and it's back to a health weight reducing diet.
ReplyDeleteYou can sell the gun to your neighbor, but if you didn't do the background check and they shoot someone then you are liable for the improper sale.
ReplyDeleteHah!
DeleteSan Diego and Chula Vista are the same metro area, literally contiguous, and yet SD is near the top and CV is near the bottom.
ReplyDeleteMakes no sense.
One is bad
ReplyDeleteDon't know which one.
ReplyDeleteBirmingham, AL !?!?!?!? Dfuq!!!
ReplyDeleteWell... Just got back from the Iron Bowl... That was disappointing. My team really didn't show up to play on Saturday. Beaten in essentially every phase of the game.
ReplyDeleteCollege wussie rugby: UCLA outlasted Cal which was a surprise.
ReplyDeleteYeh, Birmingham? I have decided that "wallet hub" is looking after their own wallet on this ranking.
And while I am often critical of where I was supposed to grow up, Worcester in no way deserves such a low rank.
If products carried liability relative to risk ladders and bathtubs would be unavailable.
ReplyDeleteHAve you read a ladder recently? That said one collapsed under the hub a few weeks ago while cleaning a gutter. He didn't think of suing them. Was hurt, but not that badly. Ladder was old,m but not that old.
Delete> If products carried liability relative to risk ladders and bathtubs would be unavailable.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to research how the Ladder and Bathtub industries managed to fend off the ambulance chasers. You certainly cannot rely on the courts to maintain sanity.
Ladder is chock full of warings almost to the point of DO NOT BUY THIS LADDER!!!
ReplyDeleteBathtubs I don't know.
If the ladder was new and the hub badly damaged, I'd think of suing.
ReplyDeleteThe ladder did collapse and he was not jumping up and down on it.
ReplyDeleteNitey night.😀
ReplyDeleteLadders are subject to abuse under what many would consider normal use. Wood is a bad choice IMO shrinkage, especially old ones. They rarely see true level surfaces and are subject to load shits ending in twisting. Made in Chimerica is another problem.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDelete>>Seriously. Do not forget the home improvement channels to exploit residence insecurity.
HGTV is one of my best friends - love the education value, right or wrong. If there was more local choices focused on value it would help, but we get along.
I like this Old House and Tiny House and.less Tree Houses and moe Miss Fisher's Mysteries and Father Brown and antiques Road Show.
ReplyDeleteMore, not Moe. Hehe.
ReplyDeleteMy son's Siamese used to like cartoon.
ReplyDeleteAnyone plan to move somewhere upon retirement?
ReplyDeleteWe might, but we might just end up as snowbirds
DeleteIs Trump determined to to make every group in the US mad at him? Now it's Indians.
ReplyDeleteIndians come from the subcontinent... You're talking about injuns, aka native 'mericans...
DeleteGood Morning!
ReplyDeleteHGTV does sell discontentment.
I am in my last house and not going anywhere. RV works for me, Oh the interior is dated. Call for HGRVTV! :)
Don't fix it up. You won't get the money back.
ReplyDeleteExcept painting.
DeleteIs Cheeseburger still out there?
ReplyDeleteApparently our neighborhood is on a scheduled power outage for a major upgrade. Forced to golf and garden. New post when the power returns.
ReplyDeleteThe exception to abiding RV improvements; electronics. Between lower power, smaller footprint and increased fuel efficiency there is almost always an immediate ROI.
ReplyDeleteWhat is theost abnormal thing in the world.at this time, does anybody think?
ReplyDeleteMost
DeleteAs long as we derive benefits from pulling forward in our life time and are long gone when the balance can't be paid.
ReplyDeleteMost abnormal would be crypto currencies.
ReplyDeleteSecond place tie would be long bonds and Chinese backed anything.
Agreed
ReplyDeleteAnybody else? Could be anything, including non financial.
ReplyDeleteThe $100m plus worth of houses in the proximate Dawghaus neighborhood have been without electricity going on eight hours now. Not a big deal and we were informed in advance but it seems the US is ever slipping into lower expectations of service and infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteTo easy to get degrees and not well educated. Poor performance and more costly. IMO
ReplyDelete18 months journeyman electrician or plumber path -> $100k.
ReplyDelete4 years computer science. $120k debt and $60k.
I think electricans have interesting jobs. Nice balance of indoor/outdoor. And figuring stuff out and labor.
ReplyDeleteMy BiLs have done exactly the electrician path as has an Uncle. All prospered.
DeleteIf I was young I would do a handyman biz. Most of it is simple and easy.
ReplyDeleteDifferent problems all the time.
DeleteSeems doing stuff will never go out or style.
ReplyDeleteAny job/business done right makes good money.
ReplyDeleteBest and worst
ReplyDeleteDoctors
ReplyDeleteOne of the best was Florida, because we have so many over 65, presumablY sicker, So more money. Sickness is good.
New post.
ReplyDeleteWhen???
ReplyDeleteWhen the coffee kicks in.
DeleteGood Morning!
ReplyDeleteBoomers need for medicine is big everywhere. The only real growth here is the hospital and doctor turn over has slowed.
When Mrs Dawg found out about Matt Lauer she asked”was there anybody left to report it?”
ReplyDeleteAnn Curry?
ReplyDeleteTurns out the media is the swamp getting drained in 2017...They should all go into politics where it apparently doesn't hurt your career.
ReplyDeleteThe print media is dying, like department stores
ReplyDeleteAnd big malls.
Matt Lauer?? Matt Lauer?? It seems this is not a case of one rotten apple.
DeleteAnn Curry? Wasn't there something about her and the pool boy? LOL!
ReplyDeleteThe msm was protecting the swamp. The draining is a multilayered project. Just like the next post about the Oroville Spillway project.
ReplyDeleteNext they ll tell us Walter Cronkite was guilty and Edward R Murrow, and try to resurrect their ghosts!! To punish them? Leonardo DaVinci was a pediphile. Should we tear up the Mona Lisa?
ReplyDeleteThese people need to be punished, but an unwanted kiss does not deserve the death penalty. Small infractions, small punishments like everything else. Big infractions, big punishments. I said there would be a push back, but I didn't think the pusher back would be me.
ReplyDeleteBurn your energy on natural human activity and avoid the real problems. How many people put themselves is compromising positions and fantasies.
ReplyDeleteOr, we could start presuming guilt,.and fire them all.
ReplyDeleteIs avoiding but grabbing so hard?? When I say Lauer's name I thought he was dead.
ReplyDeleteSaw
DeleteMatt Lauer really grilled Bill O'Rielly. Will we see him get treated the same?
ReplyDeleteRegardless, new post is up.