It's expensive to live in Connecticut, and as we get older it becomes a battle of do we follow the Southern migration of oldies to Florida? or stay here? According to a new study of the best and worst states to retire in 2025, Connecticut is 'Meh' for 2025.

A recent trip to the middle of America started us thinking about where we want the rest of our lives to play out. The State of Connecticut is very well aware of the burden that is in place for elderly taxpayers, and our politicians have introduced multiple acts that attempt to preserve small increments of our income. Is it enough to keep us here? Maybe.

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WalletHub.com has just released Best and Worst States to Retire in 2025, and Connecticut has been ranked at #29. To arrive at their rankings, WalletHub.com compared the 50 states across three key dimensions: Affordability, Quality of Life, and Healthcare. The three were then evaluated using 46 relevant dimensions, like retired taxpayer friendliness, cost of adult daycare, annual cost of in-home services, elder-friendly labor market, elder food insecurity, access to public transportation, air and water quality, dentist, nurses, and primary care physicians per capita, quality of public hospitals, and life expectancy.

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Connecticut did horribly in the Affordability metric rankings, landing at #45 out of 50. We did much better in the Quality of Life metric at #17, and even better in the Healthcare metric where Connecticut is listed at #6. At the top of WalletHub.com's ranking of the best was Florida, followed by Minnesota and Colorado, while Louisiana and Kentucky were listed as the worst states to retire in 2025.

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