{"id":327515,"date":"2025-10-23T22:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/327515\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:05:22","slug":"upper-class-what-it-takes-plus-safest-retirement-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/327515\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Class: What It Takes Plus Safest Retirement Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it might not be possible for everyone, an upper-class retirement should be the goal for your golden years. After a life of hard work and effort, there may be no greater reward than to spend your retirement years in luxury and comfort.<\/p>\n

Before you can do that, however, it\u2019s important to define what, exactly, is an upper-class income level. Per the Pew Research Center<\/a>, an annual household income of $169,800 serves as a baseline for upper-class wealth. Additionally, as GOBankingRates<\/a> has reported, an overall net worth of $714,000 to $2.1 million would place a retiree in the upper-class income bracket in America.<\/p>\n

Once that level of wealth has been attained and retired upon, it\u2019s time to find a comfortable \u2014 and safe \u2014 place to settle down. GOBankingRates recently analyzed data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey, Sperling\u2019s BestPlaces, Bureau of Labor Statistics, AreaVibes, Zillow, Federal Reserve Economic Data and FBI Crime Data Explorer in order to find the wealthiest and safest cities in America to retire in. <\/p>\n

Here are the top 10, based on that data.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While it might not be possible for everyone, an upper-class retirement should be the goal for your golden…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,8726,255,615,700,708,67,132,68,258],"class_list":{"0":"post-327515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gobankingrates","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-planning","12":"tag-retirement","13":"tag-retirement-planning","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wealth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115425753529716155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}