Virginia: Martinsville
Martinsville is similar to Oil City when it comes to their retired population, having the same percentage, but if you’d like to live in a different state other than Pennsylvania, maybe Virginia will be the one to charm you. There are a few differences, the main one being that while they don’t tax the social security benefits, the state does tax your retirement income. This isn’t that much of an issue when you look at how much cheaper you could get a home for here: the average price is around $98,800.
That makes the town a bit more affordable, and if you’re looking at healthcare costs, they’re pretty even between these two cities. The one thing that may put you off may be the crime rate, which goes up to 28.4 per 1,000 people. But when your savings aren’t that plentiful, you shouldn’t discard this charming town just based on that.
I’d MUCH prefer any of the numerous tropical expat destinations! The would not only be less expensive (possibly significantly less), but nicer weather than any of these places.
Pennnsylvania can eat you up with school taxes. Being a commonwealth, the whole state is broken up into townships. So much waste and duplication of services it more than makes up for not taxing social security or retirement income. The school tax is the killer. The state has more tax collectors than the entire country combined.
I retired in Brazil. Free health care which includes unlimited doctor´s visits, hospitalizations, transplants, free hearing aids and cataracts surgery, affordable medicine and many is free.
save places to live with high security, great climate and extremely nice people. You can live well on your Social Security income.
Nowhere is it mentioned about culture, health care, cost of food or gas. Based on your study, I’d rather live in my 40ft Class A motor home.
Move away from Pennsylvania..They tax you for everything and their taxes are outrageous….