I call shenanigans. All of those places are in the USA.

/woo, that should stoke some flames

I kinda expected to see Ithaca on that list.

What the hell is Hoboken, NJ doing on that list? The only fact they cite about it is it's across the river from Manhattan. So what???

To the ethereal void? Or in a corporeal manner?

The last five entries on this list invalidate the story. Were they supposed to be representative of the BOTTOM five of the list?

HOBOKEN?!

SRSLY?!

Boulder...shenanigans.

Retire to Hoboken?

What are you, out of your mind?

It's New Jersey, for christ's sake!

NotSubby: The last five entries on this list invalidate the story. Were they supposed to be representative of the BOTTOM five of the list?

Upper St. Clair, Pa.

/you lose

Maybe, Marbella, Spain or Lyon, France, or even Santa Fe, NM but not most of these locations.

I have a standard zombie preparedness plan or Z.P.P. as the lady calls it, but who really wants to be fighting off the zombie incursion on the front lines? Give me a list of least brainiest, that would be something relevant to my interests.

Berkeley my ass

How could they overlook Kenosha ?!?

Right, what Ann Arbor needs most is a bunch of old people moving in to add to the already wonderful driving skills of the average Michigan resident.

FTFA: For retirees who have no desire to stop learning-and that's, like, pretty much everyone-

Is there any place where we can send journalists to become more brainy? That article is, "like, pretty much" CRAP!

So the elderly now wish to retire to expensive places with godawful lots of snow and be surrounded by wet-behind-the-ears poli-sci majors in Che T shirts? Really?

It must be true since I heard it on the internet.

wwtsomifitsd: Berkeley my ass

Kinky.

mamoru: I call shenanigans. All of those places are in the USA.

/woo, that should stoke some flames

That's because smart Amurikans want to keep their retirement money rather than give 9/10 of it to the state so that some out-of-work Euro-slacker can have internet access and post to Fark.

//Just added petrol to the fire

BRAAIINS

nirwana
How could they overlook Kenosha ?!?

haha! I came here to ask that!

mikaloyd: So the elderly now wish to retire to expensive places with godawful lots of snow and be surrounded by wet-behind-the-ears poli-sci majors in Che T shirts mathematic, biomedical, and computer students? Really?

It must be true since I heard it on the internet.

Upper St. Clair, Pa.
/but they're farther north

West Layflat, IN? I don't think so. I spent four years there and "intellectual wasteland" is a better description.

Hyde Park (Chicago) is far superior, as are dozens of other places.

mikaloyd: So the elderly now wish to retire to expensive places with godawful lots of snow and be surrounded by wet-behind-the-ears poli-sci majors in Che T shirts? Really?

It must be true since I heard it on the internet.

I usually live in West Lafayette. It's none of those things.

/It snows, but not that much

If you rely on a place to exercise your brain, it's likely too late.

Omnivorous:

Boiler Up!

what the heck is Poacae?

Reston? Reston? Reston? A soul-sucking bland McMansion-filled traffic-spewing Nothern Virginia void? Uhhh, no thanks. It's what I imagine that the smart ones are retiring from.

My brother lives in Hoboken. It seems more like a college town than a place to retire (most bars in a square mile).

Then again Berkley in definitely a college town too. Guess being close to the kids and the drugs keeps the old people smart.

I have two friends that have relocated to retire, others have pretty much "retired in place". One is in an "American" retirement community in Mexico where his cost of living is next to nothing, the other is in Aruba, same sort of benefit except the fuel for his boat is like $20/gal but he makes enough money ferrying exec's around that it doesn't matter. Lotsa companies are building facilities there.
It seems if you want to use your brains to retire you'll have to leave the country.

By all means retire to Berkeley if you want to live under the benevolent despotism of the biggest bunch of Bolsheviks in the entire US.

thelordofcheese: NotSubby: The last five entries on this list invalidate the story. Were they supposed to be representative of the BOTTOM five of the list?

Upper St. Clair, Pa.

/you lose

Did I strike a nerve? Sorry, Snowflake. Your town is just, heh, fine.

If you're going to state Reston, VA as being an intellectual place to retire, you might as well include the rest of Loudon and Fairfax counties as they're exactly the same. Cookie-cutter condos in the Dulles flight path with nothing but chain stores and starbucks for entertainment.

Who would retire to Brookline, MA? Yeah, old people love shoveling snow and fighting for parking spaces.

Nobody retires to Brookline, there are a lot of old people there who lived there their whole lives. They didn't retire to Brookline. They already were unfortunate enough to live there.

Berkeley! Yeah, haha, OK, good luck not getting driven out by the anti-imperialists.

Which is why I'll probably avoid those places. I do not care for academic snobs...

Lake oswego? Lake oswego is a huge fail. People there are such dick heads

The "Berkeley student" stereotype found here is about 30 years out of date. There are drugged-out hippies in Berkeley, but they are not students, they are residents.

The students are surprisingly conservative and somewhat boring.

Ann Arbor is over-rated, though you wouldn't know it from the people who live there. They are all a bunch of blowhard, trust-fund douchebags who are "conscious" of the world's suffering and wish to alleviate it by paying twice as much for hemp sweaters. Its really easy to feel bad about the world when you don't ever have to see any icky poor people or plight. God forbid you put any of your money into a community that needs to be re-built, its probably full of dangerous darkies!!11!!1!

Lincey: Lake oswego? Lake oswego is a huge fail. People there are such dick heads

THIS.

Lake Oswego is overpriced upper-class suburban hell. If, for whatever reason, I found myself in retirement there, I'd seriously consider euthanasia as a quick escape.

/plans to barhop in SE Portland dives until I'm 80
//really, really hates suburbia
///WTF, why and how is Lake Oswego on the list?

If you're so smart, why are you reading U.S News and World Report???

/seriously....

mamoru: I call shenanigans. All of those places are in the USA.

/woo, that should stoke some flames

Excellent point.

mamoru: I call shenanigans. All of those places are in the USA.

/woo, that should stoke some flames

I think you should have pointed out they're mostly liberal enclaves.

Omnivorous: West Layflat, IN? I don't think so. I spent four years there and "intellectual wasteland" is a better description.

Amen to that. There's very little culture there at all. Good engineering school, mainly as there's absolutely nothing to distract you out in a cornfield.

/ would rather die than go back to Indiana

retire? in the US? yeah, right. the only chance in hell i have in retiring is if i move to Mexcio. there are entire towns where the pinche gringos are the majority population.

ComicBookGuy: mamoru: I call shenanigans. All of those places are in the USA.

/woo, that should stoke some flames

I think you should have pointed out they're mostly liberal enclaves.

Damn book reedin liberuls! I think that its possible to be an intelligent conservative, though I haven't found any evidence to prove it.

/I keed
//..kind of

11) Jackson, Mississippi

I love Berkeley and the Bay Area. Left about four years ago. Wish I could move back.

/just say no to court allowed out of state move away orders

Number one should have been:

Galt's Gulch

weatherwax: Ann Arbor is over-rated, though you wouldn't know it from the people who live there. They are all a bunch of blowhard, trust-fund douchebags who are "conscious" of the world's suffering and wish to alleviate it by paying twice as much for hemp sweaters. Its really easy to feel bad about the world when you don't ever have to see any icky poor people or plight. God forbid you put any of your money into a community that needs to be re-built, its probably full of dangerous darkies!!11!!1!

Awww... looks like someone is grumpy about being rejected and ending up at Michigan State!

One brainy spot that won't surprise: Berkeley, Calif., where residents might head for a screening of a film on urban organic farming in Cuba

I think I'd rather just stick with reading sci-fi and watching channels like History and Discovery.