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Why this city was named the best place to retire: It’s affordable to live there

Digilifetrends Updated 2026-10-01 1 min read

This Midwestern city ranked No. 1 for a second straight year

Someone turning 65 today can expect to live nearly two more decades, meaning Americans need to carefully select where to retire.
Someone turning 65 today can expect to live nearly two more decades, meaning Americans need to carefully select where to retire.

Jessica Hall covers retirement for MarketWatch. She was an Age Boom Academy Fellow at Columbia University and completed the Leadership Exchange on Ageism. Before that, she worked at Mainebiz, the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram, where she and her team won a Scripps Howard Award for Community Journalism for a series on aging. Hall spent 17 years at Reuters reporting on mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications and airlines. She began her career in Baltimore at the Daily Record and the Baltimore Business Journal and has also written for Barron’s and other publications.

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