17 US cities where retirement is affordable, taxes are reasonable, and healthcare costs less

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• Personal finance site WalletHub released updated data on the best and worst US cities for retirees, and looked at affordability as a main factor.
• Retirees are most likely to find low taxes and care costs in the south and southeast.
• Many cities in Florida, Texas, and Alabama made the list, including Jacksonville, Tampa, Mobile, and San Antonio.
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For people looking to stretch their retirement dollars stretch, some cities make it easier than others.

To update its list of the best places in the US to retire for 2019, personal finance site WalletHub calculated which cities were the most affordable by looking at the overall costs of living, tax rates, inheritance and estate taxes, and the costs of both in-home and day care for seniors.

Cities in the southeast and in the south such as San Antonio, Texas and Tampa, Florida made the list, while Laredo, Texas and Cheyenne, Montana took the top two spots.

Here are the 17 most affordable cities for retirees, along with data on each state's tax rates via WalletHub and median senior day care costs from AARP.