New York Most Expensive State To Retire In, New Study Finds Surprisingly, out of the 10 most expensive states to retire in the United States, California is conspicuously absent from the list. That is according to a new WalletHub piece that dove into the most affordable places for U.S. citizens to settle down in once their work lives are over - which, nowadays, is somewhere between age 90 and 120. The study "used data from various agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau and the... Read this story