Canada’s Best Places to Retire
/Best Places to Retire in Canada
First Published Date : October 13, 2011 ADawnJournal.com
The answer to the question “where to retire in Canada?” may sound like an obvious one. However, let me disappoint you by saying that there is no straightforward answer. There are many factors that come into making a decision. You are different than anyone else and the factors you make your decision based on may be totally different than someone else’s.
Where you want to retire largely depends on what really matters to you. You need to do thorough research to come up with a place where you would like to live happily ever after. The advantage technology has brought to us is the Internet. You can research tons of websites on a variety of retirement related topics to help you with your quest to find the most suitable place for you. Today, I am going to mention some factors you need to consider and also we will go through Moneysense magazine’s Canada’s Best Places to Live list to help you make your retirement decision.
Factors Determining the Best Places to Retire
Here are some factors I can think of that you should be looking at before making your decision. However, there are possibly more factors you should research based on your individuality.
– Living costs and other expenses
– Safety, security, and stability
– Family
– Climate
– Does it offer seclusion or a city’s hustle and bustle
– A far-off place from your home or nearby location
Canada’s Best Places to Live
Every year, MoneySense Magazine publishes a list showing Canada’s best places to live. This list can be a helpful tool for your research as there are many cities have been researched based on affordability, prosperity, crime rates, health care, and so on. Here are the top 10 cities for 2011:
– Ottawa-Gatineau
– Victoria
– Burlington
– Kingston
– St. Albert
– Fredericton
– Brandon
– Edmonton
– Repentigny
– Winnipeg
Although this list can be very helpful, keep in mind that it was compiled eliminating cities and towns with populations less than 10,000 and it only looked at 180 cities and towns with populations more than 10,000.
Last Word
In searching for your best place to retire, do not count on any single source or list. A place may be the world’s best place to retire in terms of the factors the publisher is looking at. However, your own deciding factors may be very different than those presented, and that means a list showing the world’s best place to live may not mean anything from your own perspective. Research is key to finding your little heaven and keep researching until you find it. There are lots of retirement articles on A Dawn Journal as well and you can access them here: A Dawn Journal Retirement Articles
