The wife and I retired to the #2 rated city in the article, Lancaster (county)PA. After spending time in many different cities and regions, in the eastern and southern 2/3rd of the country, we found this to be the best fit. Hopefully, the article doesn't impact the area too negatively. A few years back, another source named one of our local small towns, "the coolest small town in America". Wow, talk about a way to make a town explode, it's still a great place, but houses sell in days, and weekend traffic is ugly. Being pretty familiar with several of the winning locations, I'm struck by the huge disparities in COL, and (subjectively) desirability. I'm not going to offend anybody, but I've been to a few of them that I would move to without a second thought, if my COL wouldn't double, and others that I think, "who would ever want to deliberately move to that shit show?"