10 worst states to retire in

How can the list of worst states to retire in be almost identical to the states that contain the top cities to retire in for under $40k?  Makes no sense.  What a waste of time.

I just read an article that named the 10 best cities to retire in and then I read this article, which says most of those cities are in the 10 worst states to retire in.  Maybe your writers should get together and move to another website! 

so riddle me this batman how can Georgia be in  the 10 best and the 10 worst  = P

Liberal and  very biased.  Comments are great!!  This will be the last time I read an article from MSN.....

What a retarded article! I just got done reading the "Best Cities to Retire" and then followed the link to this article. Every one of the states mentioned (except one, PA) had a city on the best places to retire list!! Hello????

By reading a sampling of the comments already posted, I see that I'm not the only one to immediately notice that all of the "10 worst" states are in the south, and 5 out of 6 of the "best states" (by the same limited set of criteria) are in the north, the one somewhat sensible suggestion for a "best" state being Hawaii. There seems to be an inherent (and totally unwarranted) assumption in the article that people nearing retirement age are automatically going to start looking for someplace to live other than where they have spent most of their lives. While it's true that many retirees do, in fact, relocate, traditionally hasn't it been mostly northerners moving to the sunnier climate of the south? Arizona and Florida especially have established reputations as "retirement friendly" states, yet neither of them was listed as either "worst" or "best". And the trouble with the "life expectancy" criterion is that where you live is only one factor in determining how long you can expect to live, and certainly not the most significant one. My father came from Arkansas (one of the 10 states listed as "worst", partly due to general life expectancy); his mother, who lived in Arkansas all her life, died at age 99, but my dad, who left Arkansas after WWII and lived the rest of his life in the Pac. NW, died at age 87. Based strictly on the implied premise of this brief article, Dad should have lived at least as long as his mother ... which only goes to show that the premise is misleading. To pass judgements about "worst" & "best" based on 3 paltry criteria is grossly simplistic & misleading, and ultimately meaningless.  

What I find interesting is that the 10 worst states to retire all have the best places to retire for under $40,000 per year.  So if you combine these articles, you can retire for less than $40,000 in the worst states to retire in and chances are you will be a victim of crime within your first year of retirement.  So you will either get your life savings stolen or be killed within that year.  So no worries...