About Retiring Florida

Retiring Florida is independent research for deciding where to retire in Florida. Florida offers an enormous range of retirement lifestyles — from age-restricted golf-cart communities to walkable beach downtowns to quiet inland towns — and the right fit depends on specifics most guides skip: actual insurance costs, HOA and CDD structures, healthcare access, and honest tradeoffs.

We built this site to answer a broader question than “which 55+ community should I choose?” Not every retiree wants age-restricted housing, and the decision of where to retire in Florida starts well before that: which region, which city, and what a given budget actually buys.

How We’re Different

Every place, region, and comparison page cites its sources and shows a last-reviewed date. We publish drawbacks alongside advantages. We don’t display placeholder or fabricated data, and we don’t publish a page until we have enough real research to justify it. See our methodology for details.

How We’re Supported

Retiring Florida is supported in part through referral relationships with local real-estate professionals. We connect readers who want local help with an experienced agent in the area they’re researching. These relationships never influence our research — see our disclaimer.