Top Ten Cities for Senior Living

Chicago's Bankers Life and Casualty Company (they're located in Chicago), did a survey designed to identify the top 50 metro areas in the U.S. that offer the best overall qualities for senior living. The criteria that the panel chose to reach their conclusions were: crime, disease, economics, environment, health, housing, social, spiritual, and transportation. In a news release about the survey, Bankers' Chief Operating Officer Scott Perry said the senior living survey results included some cities that are not often associated with senior living. "That's because we weren't looking for the best places to be retired, but the best cities for seniors regardless of whether they are retired, working, active or not, healthy or not," he said. "It's about more than golf courses and tennis courts." Here are their Top Ten results:

 1. Portland, OR
 2. Seattle, WA
 3. San Francisco, CA
 4. Pittsburgh, PA
 5. Milwaukee, WI
 6. Philadelphia, PA
 7. New York, NY
 8. Boston, MA
 9. Cincinnati, OH
10. Chicago, IL