Best places to retire for under $40K

Next time write an article "Best places to retire for under 25 thousand dollars per year". That would be more realistic imo.

How many people in the middle classes and amoung the working poor - i.e.  the majority of the people in the USA whose paychecks have not only  been held down/  stagnant for the past 30 years but have been trashed since 2008- have or will have a nest egg of over 250 thousand dollars these days?

For many to most regular folks,  their retirement savings was tied up in their homes. With  the value of their homes being drastically lowered, while some lose their homes  to forclosure or short sale  due to inability to pay the  mortgage  because of  loss of employment/ill health and other misfortunes and in many cases due to the far reaching consequences of the Wall Street financial sector meltdown of  2008, many folks will be and are now dependent on Social Security payments as their only means of pension funding i.e. to live on for the rest of their lives ....  That is the reality of things...

Let's be real. $40k won't go far in the good old U.S. You will have to give up your standard of living,   cash, or move to some" backwoods" part of the U.S. The real choice for retires with depleted assets to to retire is in Baja Mexico. You may say " too much violence" , but that's not the reality here in Baja. I feel safer here than in a lot of places in SoCal. you just have to be aware of the areas you travel ,just like in the U.S. You can buy a nice 2br. home less than 300' from the Pacific ocean for about $70k. You can rent the same home for $600-$700/ month.  I can leave my home in Rosarito Beach and be in my seat at Petco park in about 1 hour. Gas currently costs $3.15/ gal. We have a super walmart, Home Depot, Staples , Cinaplex ( films in english). within a 15 minute drive. I sit on my balcony overlooking the ocean (50' away), sipping my wine with all the comforts I had in California . Oh yes, my property taxes are a mere $350/..............Y​EAR. I have Mexican medical Ins, because I have preexisting conditions and can't get it in the U.S. for $165/....year.  $30 copays. All people thinking about retiring should take a REAL hard look at Baja, i think that if yuo do your due diligance you will be pleasantly suprised at what you find.

"Add to that a modest nest egg of $250,000..."--------​well, I doubt most Americans now days would call $250k a "modest" nest egg, but whatever.  Makes me wonder just how much they pay Ms. Brandon here.  What would she consider a "nice" nest egg.  Just how big is the mean nest egg of retirees?

Whenever MSN does these best places to live or retire, they are usually in big/bigger cities.  I think if you want or need to move away from wherever you finish working, you'd be better off going to a smaller city.