Dorset is best retirement location in England and Wales
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The Quality of Retirement Index from Prudential assessed counties against seven criteria to indicate the extent to which people could enjoy a happy and comfortable retirement.
The seven indicators were access to healthcare, crime levels, pensioner incomes, the weather, life expectancy, how many pensioners already lived in a particular area and how many were moving into the county.
The counties were given a score and ranked accordingly.
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Hide AdHere are the top 10 counties across England and Wales which could offer pensioners the best quality of life, according to Prudential:
1. Dorset; =2. Herefordshire; =2. West Sussex; 4. Devon; =5. Isle of Wight; =5. East Sussex; 7. Rutland; 8. Dyfed; 9. Norfolk; 10. Surrey