These Lists Come And Go, But They're Still Fun: Best States to Retire In -- North Dakota #10; South Dakota #3

Obviously the list is skewed toward cost of living and taxes.

In reverse order:

10. North Dakota: access to medical care; 2nd-lowest crime rate
9. Nebraska: access to medical care; low crime rate
8. Alabama: golf, low taxes,  high crime
7. West Virginia; low taxes, low crime rate, access to medical care
6. Virginia: scores high in everything
5. Mississippi: warm; low cost of living; crime slightly high; and very few physicians
4. Kentucky: extremely low cost of living
3. South Dakota: lowest crime rate in the nation
2. Louisiana: balmy, lost cost of living, one of the highest crime rates in the country
1. Tennessee: cost of living 2nd lowest in the nation, right behind Oklahoma

The worse: Oregon
Texas: #12

I think I would eliminate any state with a crime rate in the top 10.
Cost of living: one gets what one pays for.