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Find a Great Place to Retire

Choosing a place to spend your retirement years has never been easy, but these days, it’s particularly challenging. The coronavirus pandemic has caused some retirees to rethink plans to move to urban or suburban walkable communities. But rural communities, while offering plenty of opportunities for social distancing, may not offer adequate health care—which is a priority for many retirees, particularly while COVID-19 infection rates are still high.

Some of these concerns could dissipate after a vaccine becomes widely available. But in the interim, it’s a good idea to re­evaluate plans to move—especially if you are considering relocating to an urban area, says Bert Sperling, founder of , which ranks cities around the country on a variety of factors. “One of the reasons people are moving to those places

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