Where do you plan to retire?

[feh]

Every one of your choices sounds like they have colder winters than the next.

Yeah - that's the problem; "remote" places are remote because few people want to live there!

It's not so much the temperature as the duration. Wisconsin winters are about 5 months long. From what I've read, winter is at least shorter in CO than it is in WI (referring to towns on eastern edge of the Rockies, like Boulder).