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Retire in best Massachusetts retirement communities
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Have you thought you might retire in Massachusetts? This website has useful data and opinions about the best places to retire in Massachusetts, including exciting active adult retirement communities in the Bay State. This New England state had over 6.4 million people in 2006. It includes one of America's oldest cities, Boston, charming sea coast villages on Cape Cod; and rural towns in the western part of the state leading up to the Berkshire Mountains. Its diversity guarantees a Massachusetts community where you can be happy in retirement. The Wikipedia entry for Massachusetts has more facts.
Boston's Charles River
Massachusetts Climate
The Massachusetts climate is called humid-continental. There are 4 seasons. Summers are hot and winters are cold with frequent snowstorms, some of them heavy nor'easters. Western Massachusetts has a more severe climate, Cape Cod more moderate.
Economy
Massachusetts has the second highest per capita income (almost $42,000) in the United States. Median home prices can range dramatically - in wealthy Boston apartments routinely cost a million dollars or more, while the median home in the Metro sells for $372,500. In Worcester, however, the median home price at $285,000 is not far from the national median of $220,000. Cost of living in the Boston Metro is very high but other regions are lower - 134 index in Boston and 117 in Worcester.
Massachusetts Taxes
Massachusetts has one of the highest tax burdens of any state. Its top marginal income tax rate is 5.3% on all income, there is no marginal raate. State sales tax is 5.0% but many towns and cities add additional tax. Total tax burden in Boston is in the top third of the largest cities in the nation at 9.4%.
Certified Retirement Communities
Massachusetts does not have a certified retirement community program.
Best retirement communities in Massachusetts
Massachusetts, particularly Boston, is considered by many to be the historical and cultural capital of the nation. It is a great state for active adults and people over 50, particularly if you live there already. Many baby boomers choose to retire in an exciting city like Boston, pine for a quiet life on the Cape, or even in a small college town in the west. Topretirements has profiled a number of towns that make great retirement communities; many of these have active adult communities already built or on the drawing boards. Read the profiles on the lovely Cape Cod towns of Provincetown, Chatham, or Falmouth to find vital information to help you assess pros and cons of living there.
Other "best" retirement communities include the Berkshire college town of Williamstown, Northampton - home of Smith College, or the lake town of Worcester.
At Topretirements.com our job is to provide the objective facts and peer-reviewed profiles to help you find the best community for you. So if you are considering a Massachusetts retirement, check out the listings on this site. Here is more inside information on retirement living communities in the neighboring states to help you retire in Pennsylvania, retire in Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. These links provide insight and data into economic conditions, climate, top communities, and taxes.
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