10 Best Places to Retire in Virginia

7. Virginia Beach

Costs of living: 9.8 percent higher than US average

Median home value: $232,400

Violent crime rates: 42.5

Number of doctors per capita: 258

Virginia Beach is the most beautiful place on the list. To buy a home in the city which has a population of 450,000, you need to pay around $230,000 which is higher than America’s median home value, but it is much less compared to real estate prices in Florida’s or California’s coastal cities. The fact that Virginia Beach found a place in the Guinness Book of Record as the city which has the longest pleasurable beach in the world speaks for itself. Besides lying on the sandy beach and looking at the Atlantic Ocean, the city’s residents can relax in some of 210 parks, enjoy sporting events such as surfing and sand soccer championships, attend music festivals or take a look at latest art in the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art.