Where to Retire on Sunday Evening Review

Austin, Texas: What Retirees Actually Think After Moving Here

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0500

I was standing on the Congress Avenue Bridge at dusk on a Thursday in March, watching a million and a half Mexican free-tailed bats spiral out from under the bridge deck and scatter across the sky above Lady Bird Lake. A woman next to me, mid-seventies, white-haired, wearing a fleece vest and sensible walking shoes, leaned over and said, “I moved here from Minneapolis two years ago. I’ve seen this forty times. It hasn’t gotten old yet.”

The Best States to Retire In: An Honest Assessment From Someone Who Has Driven Through All of Them

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0500

The woman at the gas station in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was maybe seventy-five. She was filling up a dusty Subaru Outback with Kansas plates, and she had the particular energy of someone who had recently made a decision and was still pleased about it. I was topping off my own tank, heading north on I-25 toward Albuquerque, and she caught me looking at her bumper sticker, which read Not All Who Wander Are Retired (Some of Us Just Finally Can).