The NYT reports on a study by New York City’s Independent Budget Office that finds New York citizens bear a higher tax burden than citizens in other major cities. High Medicare costs are a driving force between the high taxes; the study found that without them, NYC’s tax burden would be comparable to other major cities.

Meanwhile, over at USA Today, there’s an article on “boomerang” seniors. These are individuals from northern states, such as New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, who move to active retirement communities in their sixties and return to northern states as their partners die and they need more intensive services. A researcher on this topic says that northern states basically trade their “younger elderly for older Floridians.”