Hotspot for wealthy retirees with 'sugary beaches' is named best place to live in the US

A hotspot for able retirees successful Florida has been named America's number 1 spot to live. 

Known arsenic nan 'preferred status spot for nan rich, powerful and cold-averse,' Naples, Florida, has been crowned America's number 1 spot to unrecorded connected nan yearly US News & World Report.

Following intimately down Naples was Boise, ID, Colorado Springs, CO and Greenville, SC.

Naples offers beautiful attractions, including pristine beaches pinch powdery, sugar-white sand. 

The metropolis besides features plentifulness of intermezo including play courses, quality preserves, farms, museums, good eating options and moreover immoderate gaming opportunities astatine nan Seminole Casino Hotel. 

'Long known arsenic a preferred status spot for nan rich, powerful and cold-averse, nan greater Naples area supplies pristine beaches, sprawling play courses, and good eating and shopping,' nan study wrote.

'Closer to nan area's agrarian interior, meanwhile, cattle graze and seasonal workers prime tomatoes successful nan fields astir Immokalee, a farming organization an hour's thrust extracurricular of Naples.'

The city's entreaty is further boosted by Florida's deficiency of income taxation and nan state's generous homestead exemption, which tin importantly little spot taxes 

'Much of nan Naples area is taxable to a seasonal ebb and travel arsenic residents from cold-weather states – often called 'snowbirds' – flock to nan region during nan wintertime months to bask Florida's seemingly endless proviso of sunshine and lukewarm weather.' 

'Those seasonal residents time off their 2nd homes successful Naples arsenic nan sweltering summertime months approach.'

While nan costs of surviving successful Naples tin beryllium high, particularly adjacent nan coveted beaches, much affordable options tin beryllium recovered further inland, nan study explained.

To locals, Naples' apical ranking comes arsenic nary surprise. Mark Danni, a resident of 22 years, told nan Naples Daily News: 'I emotion seeing sunshine each day. 

The mean location successful Naples is $577,769 - much than doubly nan nationalist mean of $281,900, according to nan report.

For nan past 2 years, nan metropolis has classed sixth connected nan US News and World report's rankings.

But its people has been bolstered by a beardown occupation market, pinch unemployment astatine 3.6 percent - compared to a nationalist mean of 5.3 percent.

The median family income successful nan metropolis is $98,120 - almost a 3rd higher than nan nationalist mean of $75,149.

What's much its crime complaint is besides beneath nan remainder of nan country, pinch 106.8 crimes committed per 100,000 group successful nan city.

To found nan champion places to live, researchers scored cities by six cardinal criteria: affordability, happiness, wellness care, retiree taxes, desirability and occupation market.