Ann Arbor, Michigan

Population: 603,358
Cost of Living: 110.3
Median Home Price: $206,900

Less than 40 miles from Detroit, Ann Arbor offers a lively downtown with sidewalk cafes, an annual blues and jazz festival, and annual art fair. Sports lovers can root for the top-quality teams of the University of Michigan Wolverines. For educational enrichment, there's the Turner Senior Resource Center’s Learning in Retirement program, offering lectures and minicourses for older "students of life." Most cost less than $35, plus a yearly $15 membership fee.

Cost of Living Index Average is 100