There's a version of retirement in Ohio nobody puts in the glossy brochures. No golf resort in Arizona, no beachfront condo eating half your savings in HOA fees and hurricane insurance. Just quiet brick downtowns, rivers you can afford to live beside, and homes that cost less than a lot of people spend on a new pickup. I've spent years on the back roads of this state, and I kept finding retirees on a fixed income who finally stopped lying awake doing math. Here are nine towns — including one built around a bridge shaped like a Y, and the hometown of the first man on the moon.

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