This surprising state is now a No. 1 retirement destination MarketWatch 1/9/2021 BRETT ARENDS'S ROI There’s a new top retirement state in town, and it’s not Florida, Arizona or any of the usual Sunbelt suspects. Popular Searches Step forward … Delaware. The tiny mid-Atlantic corporate enclave, now famous as the home state of the incoming president, came out as the surprising No. 1 destination for retirees (according to one way of calculating, anyway). These results come from the latest United Van Lines annual survey of who’s moving where and why. United Van Lines, the country’s biggest full-service moving company, operates about 300 agencies across the U.S. and typically handles around 100,000 moves a year. It’s been conducting the survey for 40 years.