COME ON NOW!!!! THIS STATISTIC ALONE TELLS YOU THIS IS AARP MISSINFORMATION!!!!

[nctarheel]

AARP just put out what they call the AARP LIVABILITY INDEX.

Remember the old adage that there is TRUTH, there's LIES, and then there is STATISTICS.

I never seen anything so full of BS as this LIVABILITY INDEX.

A full 13 of the 40 most livable locales, 33% or 1/3 of all the places they name as most livable are in MINNESOTA or WISCONSIN.

Yep, that's where a senior citizen wants to put down roots..... the frozen NORTH.

No Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama , Texas, Kentucky, I could go on but you get the idea.

Do the originators of the INDEX have some SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP with the two states of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Sure seems like it.

[desertzinnia]

The livability index has housing costs in my Temple TX neighborhood at $686/month.  That's less than homeowners I know in my neighborhood are paying, and WAY less than my rent, $1450/month.  There are a lot of leisure class, mooching off the taxpayer ex-military homeowners in this neighborhood, some of whom, like my landlady, I suspect are claiming their "homes" are owner-occupied.  My landlady's mortgage might be $686, but I've been in this house for 6 years and never paid under $1100/month rent.  And I am still working for my income at 61, so I'm a lot older than these military "retirees".

[TomD857140]

 I have been to Minnesota.  It is a beautiful state, but the high temperature for the day was minus 10 degrees.  Not for me.