Are you either retired or nearing retirement and wondering where the best place is to settle down? If so, we welcome you to a place where sunny days are sweeping the clouds away an average of 300 days a year, and you will never run out of exciting places to see and things to do. No, we aren’t talking about Sesame Street, folks, but rather of Colorful Colorado, which was just named one of the best places to retire in 2021:

It's official: Colorado was just named one of the best places to retire in 2021, as per WalletHub's Best & Worst Places to Retire!
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To put together this informative and educational study, WalletHub considered several factors, including affordability (accounting for 25 points), activities (25 points), quality of life (25 points), and health care (25 points), making for the best overall score of 100 points. 
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As per WalletHub, Denver is the 10th best place in America to retire (coming in at 56.53 points), with Colorado Springs coming in at 29 (52.81 points) and Aurora at 120 (46.12 points) of the list's 182 retiree-friendly cities. 
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In terms of the best cities to retire, WalletHub lists the top 3 as being Orlando, Florida (61.02 points), Tampa, Florida (60.17 points), and Charleston, South Carolina (58.99 points, pictured). 
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As for the 3 worst places to retire in 2021, WalletHub dubs Bridgeport, Connecticut (37.48 points), Stockton, California (37.41 points), and Newark, New Jersey (37.16 points, pictured). 
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To learn more about WalletHub's "Best & Worst Places to Retire" and their other many studies, please visit their website.
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