Hawaii is the best place in the United States to retire, according to a new study by MoneyRates.com.

The study examined many factors that influence a person's quality of retirement, including a state's cost of living, property taxes, violent crime rates, climate, life expectancy for seniors, recent population growth in the senior demographic and unemployment.

Hawaii was No. 1 for senior life expectancy and No. 2 for climate. It also had above-average scores in most of the other categories. Idaho and Utah came in second and third because they scored high in economic and senior-population-growth measures.

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