{"id":114379,"date":"2025-08-03T01:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114379\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T01:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:18:19","slug":"25-cities-where-you-can-retire-in-great-weather-for-2000-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114379\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Cities Where You Can Retire in Great Weather for $2,000 a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Livability: <\/strong>77<\/li>\n<li><strong>Population 65+: <\/strong>21.8%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monthly cost of living with Social Security for homeowner: <\/strong>$1,294<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monthly cost of living with Social Security for renter: <\/strong>$1,208<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lakeland has a small-town feel with nice neighborhoods and an inexpensive cost of living. It\u2019s 8.4% cheaper than the national average \u2014 housing is about 24% cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Methodology: For this study, GOBankingRates analyzed U.S. cities to find the best places where you can retire in great weather for $2,000 a month. GOBankingRates found cities with the best weather, sourced from 24\/7 Wall St.\u2019s \u201cU.S. Cities with Absolute Best Weather,\u201d FarmersAlmanac.com\u2019s \u201cThe 10 Best U.S. Weather Cities,\u201d Cutter.com\u2019s \u201cU.S. Cities with Best Weather,\u201d RealEstate.USNews.com\u2019s \u201cBest Places to Live in the U.S. for the Weather\u201d and Grillio.com\u2019s \u201cTop U.S. Cities for Weather.\u201d Other data was sourced from the U.S. Census American Community Survey, Sperling\u2019s BestPlaces, the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey, Zillow Observed Value Index, Zillow Home Value Index for May 2025, the Federal Reserve Economic Data and the Social Security Administration\u2019s Monthly Statistical Snapshot. Livability index was sourced from AreaVibes. The cities were sorted to show the highest livability location. All data was collected on and is up to date as of July 14, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Livability: 77 Population 65+: 21.8% Monthly cost of living with Social Security for homeowner: $1,294 Monthly cost of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,8726,255,615,700,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-114379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gobankingrates","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-planning","12":"tag-retirement","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114962202958571428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}