{"id":184681767,"date":"2010-11-08T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T12:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=184681767"},"modified":"2010-11-08T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T12:29:27","slug":"the-10-worst-states-for-retirement-no-5-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=184681767","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Worst States for Retirement &#8211; No. 5: Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Barrington &#8211; CFA, personal finance expert for MoneyRates.com<br \/>\nEconomic factors: Cost of living is 126 percent of the national average, unemployment is at 7.1 percent, and the average state and local tax burden is 10.8 percent.<br \/>\nClimate: Average monthly temperatures range from 32.24 degrees in January to 75.44 degrees in July.<br \/>\nCrime rate: 9th in the nation in violent crime, and 21st in property crime.<br \/>\nLife expectancy: 76.3 years.<br \/>\nReason for low rank:Between the cost of living and the tax burden, Maryland is expensive, and the high rate of violent crime is also troubling.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/richard-barrington\/the-10-worst-states-for-r_b_779210.html?ref=fb&amp;src=sp#s175224\">https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/richard-barrington\/the-10-worst-states-for-r_b_779210.html?ref=fb&amp;src=sp#s175224<\/a>oldId.20101108122927694<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Barrington &#8211; CFA, personal finance expert for MoneyRates.com Economic factors: Cost of living is 126 percent of the national average, unemployment is at 7.1 percent, and the average state and local tax burden is 10.8 percent. Climate: Average monthly temperatures range from 32.24 degrees in January to 75.44 degrees in July. Crime rate: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=184681767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 10 Worst States for Retirement &#8211; No. 5: Maryland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184681767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184681767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184681767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184681767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184681767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184681767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184681767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}