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Visions of retirement often come with sandy beaches and palm trees, but that doesn't mean that's what the best places to retire always look like.
US News & World Report recently released its annual best places to retire in America list for 2019. To determine the list, it looked at the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the US. Each area was given a retirement score scored on a 10-point scale and based on a weighted average of housing affordability, happiness, desirability, retiree taxes, job market, and healthcare quality.
This included data from a public survey of pre-retirees (age 45 to 59) and retirement-age (age 60 and up) folks across the country as well as data from the US Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other US News ranking lists.
You can read the full methodology here .
Below, see the top 50 places to retire in America, featuring several cities in Florida. We included the overall score, housing affordability index, and healthcare index.
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Overall score: 6.6
Housing affordability: 7.1
Healthcare: 5.6
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Overall score: 6.6
Housing affordability: 4.6
Healthcare: 7.5
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Overall score: 6.6
Housing affordability: 7.7
Healthcare: 6.3
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Overall score: 6.6
Housing affordability: 6.5
Healthcare: 7.2
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Overall score: 6.6
Housing affordability: 7.5
Healthcare: 7.4
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Overall score: 6.6
Housing affordability: 7.9
Healthcare: 6.5
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Overall score: 6.6
Housing affordability: 4.3
Healthcare: 5.9
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 6.6
Housing affordability: 7.8
Healthcare: 6.8
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Overall score: 6.6
Housing affordability: 7.8
Healthcare: 5.3
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Overall score: 6.6
Housing affordability: 6.6
Healthcare: 6.3
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Overall score: 6.7
Housing affordability: 7.7
Healthcare: 6
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Overall score: 6.7
Housing affordability: 5.7
Healthcare: 8.4
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Overall score: 6.7
Housing affordability: 6.3
Healthcare: 6.7
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Overall score: 6.7
Housing affordability: 5.9
Healthcare: 5.5
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Overall score: 6.7
Housing affordability: 6.6
Healthcare: 6.2
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Overall score: 6.7
Housing affordability: 6.8
Healthcare: 6.3
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 6.7
Housing affordability: 7.2
Healthcare: 6.5
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Overall score: 6.8
Housing affordability: 6.5
Healthcare: 5.2
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Overall score: 6.8
Housing affordability: 3.3
Healthcare: 4.9
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 6.8
Housing affordability: 5.5
Healthcare: 9.9
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Overall score: 6.8
Housing affordability: 5
Healthcare: 5.7
Shutterstock/Jon Bilous
Overall score: 6.8
Housing affordability: 6.9
Healthcare: 8.8
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Overall score: 6.8
Housing affordability: 8.1
Healthcare: 4.9
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Overall score: 6.8
Housing affordability: 7.8
Healthcare: 6.2
f11photo/Shutterstock
Overall score: 6.8
Housing affordability: 6.4
Healthcare: 6.2
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 6.8
Housing affordability: 4.2
Healthcare: 7.4
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 6.9
Housing affordability: 6.8
Healthcare: 5.9
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Overall score: 6.9
Housing affordability: 7.2
Healthcare: 5.9
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 6.9
Housing affordability: 6.6
Healthcare: 5.9
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Overall score:
Housing affordability:
Healthcare:
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Overall score: 6.9
Housing affordability: 6
Healthcare: 5.5
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Overall score: 6.9
Housing affordability: 6.2
Healthcare: 5.8
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Overall score: 6.9
Housing affordability: 6.1
Healthcare: 9.6
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 6.9
Housing affordability: 6.8
Healthcare: 5.6
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Overall score: 7
Housing affordability: 3.5
Healthcare: 10
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Overall score: 7
Housing affordability: 6.9
Healthcare: 6.6
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 7
Housing affordability: 4.1
Healthcare: 6.4
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 7
Housing affordability: 7.4
Healthcare: 6.2
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Overall score: 7
Housing affordability: 3.8
Healthcare: 8.6
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Overall score: 7
Housing affordability: 7.9
Healthcare: 4.7
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Overall score: 7
Housing affordability: 7.5
Healthcare: 6.3
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 7
Housing affordability: 6.4
Healthcare: 6.4
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 7
Housing affordability: 7
Healthcare: 5.4
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 7.1
Housing affordability: 7.1
Healthcare: 6.2
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Overall score: 7.1
Housing affordability: 7.5
Healthcare: 7.1
Sean Pavone/Shutterstock
Overall score: 7.1
Housing affordability: 7.5
Healthcare: 8
f11photo/Shutterstock
Overall score: 7.2
Housing affordability: 6
Healthcare: 5.6
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Overall score: 7.4
Housing affordability: 6.6
Healthcare: 6.2
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Overall score: 7.4
Housing affordability: 6.8
Healthcare: 5.7
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Overall score: 7.5
Housing affordability: 6.7
Healthcare: 9.3
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