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0 pointsaes25614y ago0 comments

> Moving somewhere when you're old doesn't change your life expectancy.

It may increase the average life expectancy of the area you are moving to, though.

In other words, while the people who were born and raised in the area may have a low life expectancy, an influx of wealthy retirees will drag up the average life expectancy. In some cases the people moving to these areas may already be older than the average life expectancy.

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yummyfajitas14y ago· 1 in thread

Exactly - at birth a man is expected to live until age 75. At age 65 he is expected to live until 81.

http://aging.senate.gov/crs/aging1.pdf (see page 8)

dredmorbius14y ago

Fair point. Though we'd be talking moving from a place with a median age of, well, roughly median age. Greatest mortality is in infancy, again in the teens / early 20s (mostly males from violence/accidents), then gradually increases past 40 due to general mortality (disease, illness, cancer, etc.).

I'm not sure that the delta from, say, 40-ish median to the slightly older skew of a retirement-centric Florida community would be great.

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