On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 13:20:49 -0800 (PST), rosie >
wrote:

>Fortune Magazine just published a list of best and worst states to retire. Number One is Wyoming !! Ouch , it doesn't all look like Jackson Hole !! Number 50
>was New York. Lots of reasons it is last mostly taxes, Texas where I am living was number 21. Has some good things, low taxes, some not so good... health Care.

One problem with these lists is that there is a tremendous variation
wtthin the states, whether ranked high or low. It makes a lot of
difference whether you retire to Junction, Tx., or Austin, or Houston
or San Antonio. Likewise, there is a great difference between Oregon
(and Washington) east and west. I'm puzzled about Wyoming, having
lived in western S. Dak. some time. Eastern Wyoming (Newcastle, for
example) seemed like the armpit of the world. Maybey there is a
nirvana to the west, but someone would have to convince me.

I'd second the move to Oregon if dying at a time in a way that you
choose is important. Perhaps the notion of personal automony will
spread as quickly as some other changes in social attitudes.

--bs