Yes, we’ve run them before—slideshows on the best places in theU.S. to retire. But this one’s a little different.

It’s from U.S. News & World Report, and it uses differentcriteria than we've seen before. U.S. News evaluated the 100 largestmetropolitan areas in the country, based on how well they meetAmericans’ expectations for retirement. According to Next Avenue, this first Best Places to Retirelist came up with results that could surprise readers, and part ofthe reason is the way they went about scoring locales.

As Next Avenue tells it, U.S. News first asked people 45 andolder to indicate the “attributes of a retirement destination that are most importantto them” and collected responses from 841 of them.

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