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Colorado Ranks 3rd Best State To Retire

DENVER (CBS4) - A new survey finds Colorado is the third best state to retire. WalletHub tallied numbers across multiple categories such as affordability, health-related factors and overall quality of life.

Of those categories, factors like elderly food insecurity, accessibility to public transportation, quality of public hospitals and tax-friendliness on pensions and social security income.

Source: WalletHub

Colorado, however, ranked 46th for the number of people aged 65 and older.

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Florida and South Dakota took the first and second spots, respectively. New Hampshire and Virginia rounded out the top 5.

Kentucky was ranked the worst place to retire.

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