Whether your retirement relocations is around the corner or years away, this book is your gateway to 100 cities handpicked by the editors of Where to Retire magazine, the authority on retirement relocation.

This book blends highly readable personal accounts with essential statistics on climate, cost of living, taxes, housing costs, crime rates, and health care.

In depth profiles of the 100 best cities and towns for active and fulfilling retirement lifestyles, as chosen by the editors of Where to Retire magazine.

Where to Retire offers the best advice not only on where to relocate in the retirement years, but why people should pick up and move just as life is settling down. Retirement guru John Howells provides well-researched and completely revised and updated information on how to find the ideal home base for the retirement years. To help the decision-making process, the author offers a list of items to consider when selecting the ideal community: safety; climate; housing availability; cultural and recreation opportunities in the area; social compatibility; affordability; medical care; distance from relatives and friends; transportation; and jobs and/or volunteer opportunities. Howells gives readers clear snapshots of life in hundreds of the most affordable, comfortable, and stimulating places to retire in the United States, including locations in Florida, California, the Pacific Northwest, the Gulf Coast, the Ozarks, the Appalachians, the Southwest, and the Rockies. This guide tells not how to retire, but where readers can retire happily.

This sometimes controversial bestseller, completely updated with all new statistics, is packed with timely facts and unbiased information on more than 300 metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Canada. Each city is ranked according to costs of living, crime rates, cultural life, and environmental factors.

66 in-depth profiles of undiscovered havens, low-cost Edens and familiar retirement hot-spots.