Massachusetts Is 2024’s Go-to State for Retirement, CISS Director Deborah Carr Explains
Well, we didn’t see this coming. Massachusetts—commonwealth of uncommonly high living costs and winters that can drag on for months—was retirement central last year. The state claimed a larger percentage of migrating retirees than any other, nosing out sun-and-beach-dappled Florida, according to online moving aide HireAHelper.
The site’s recently published annual survey, which is based on census data, found that slightly more than a fifth of the almost 266,000 Americans who crossed state lines to retire last year pitched their tents here. We outpaced Florida by just half a percentage point; still, losing the blue ribbon to its costly, colder competitor to the north shocked “even veteran trackers of retiree moves,” the American Association of Retired Persons reports.
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