10 Best Places to Retire in Florida On Social Security

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5. Suwannee

Total score: 367.373

Millage rate: 17.65

Median home price: $76,700

Cost of living index: 83.3

This particular county within Florida is home to over 42,000 people according to the latest census, while the median age in the area is 42.2 years. The unemployment rate in the county is 5.4 percent, well below the 6.3 percent across the US. The rural area used to support numerous lumber and turpentine camps, with the most famous base as Live Oak.

Until 2011, Suwannee was a dry county, but the sale of alcoholic beverages became legal, much to the happiness of the residents who stopped having to cross county lines just to get a drink.

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