While Florida, California and Arizona remain the nation’s top magnet states for retirees, especially from the Midwest, they are slipping.
Some retirees prefer more temperate climates, so North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and-believe it or not-Pennsylvania have increased in popularity, according to American Demographics.
The top three states have been among the nation’s favorite retirement destinations for half a century, and in 1990 they still attracted 35.9 percent of the 1.9 million interstate movers age 60 and older, the magazine said. But that was a decline from 40.7 percent in 1980.
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio over the years have been the source of much of that migration, but in recent years they have been slipping. Those states combined accounted for 20.7 percent of the elderly who moved in 1970 but only 13.4 percent in 1990.
Despite the slippage, more than 50,000 retirees still leave the Midwest every year.
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