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If Money Were No Object,
What Would Your Dream
Retirement Look Like?
I’ll show you where you can easily make
that dream your reality…
for $697 (or Less) a month
Dear Reader,
“Once we did the math about retirement, we realized if we retired in California, we’d have to move to some desolate place and live in a double-wide,” says Stephen J., only half joking.
Stephen and his wife Linda worked hard all their lives, he in government jobs, she with her own dog-food business. But they were ready to retire—to relax and spend time sailing and surfing.
Yet, like so many folks in the States these days, they could see they’d be hard-pressed to afford that kind of life.
So they went south—to a place on the Pacific coast where the weather is temperate, the beaches are lovely, the waves are world-class… and they could effectively double their disposable income.
Linda is out on her board just about every day the surf is up… they’re learning Spanish… there’s time to relax, enjoy the sun, read, hike, swim, sail… live.
And they’re hardly the only folks who have traded up to a better life at the same time they’ve slashed their cost of living…
“Our quality of life has greatly exceeded our expectations,” say Jack and Nancy G., retired real estate agents from Atlanta who, in their early 60s, retired overseas.
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“We live in an upscale gated community and have a three-bedroom, three-bath house with a separate maid’s quarters. We’re close to restaurants, coffee shops, movie theaters and malls. The weather is beautiful and the people here are warm and welcoming. We have made many good friends, both locals and expats, and our social calendar is always full.
“We have a full-time maid who does all our chores and a gardener who cares for the yard. We spend our days going to the gym, taking Spanish classes, horseback riding, hiking nearby volcanoes, going to the beach and exploring the country.
“And we do all this for less than half the cost of a moderate lifestyle in Atlanta.”
John C. and his partner, Sue, have a similar story to tell from the Shangri-La they chose.
“The locals here are even friendlier than advertised and it’s such a beautiful, peaceful place,” he says. In their mid-forties, they traded up to a better life overseas—and haven’t looked back since…
“We manage quite comfortably on $500 a month,” John reports. A modest five figures bought them a mountain-view, riverfront property.
“Sue’s from Alberta and I’m from Wisconsin… so we know nasty weather. But here it’s always pleasant, so there’s no need for heating or air conditioning.
“It’s a healthy environment with lots of water and a year-round growing season: We have coffee and a variety of fruit on the property, and a vegetable garden in the works.
“We have Internet access, too—we don’t get the bandwidth like you get in the States, but our access is sufficient, even for computer-types like us.”
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Each of these folks chose their own good-value haven based on what is most important for them—sunshine, price, cool weather, surf and sand…
There’s a haven out there for everyone. It’s just a matter of matching up your priorities with the destinations that make the most sense right now.
Announcing — The 2011 Live and Invest Overseas Conference Package
Including all the recorded presentations and all the speakers’ slideshows and more…
In the 2011 Live and Invest Overseas Conference Package we’ll introduce you to more than a dozen beautiful places in the world where you can live a caviar lifestyle on a hot dog budget.
Like these Folks Who Are Already Living Better for Less Overseas…
Darrell and Amy B. are already living well for less. They chose a carefully restored colonial-era town with warm weather, great restaurants, friendly locals, and a relaxed pace. Today they live very comfortably—for about $18,000 a year.
“Our costs,” Darrell says, “are around $1,500 per month, which includes upkeep on our large home, Internet, two cell phones, a car, and a motorcycle. Car insurance is $65 per year, but we rarely drive as we can walk everywhere. If we need to get a taxi, it costs about 50 cents. A maid, gardener, or caretaker is $80 to $120 a month, depending on the number of hours per week.”
Or maybe Jim B. and Polly G.’s life is more what you imagine when you think of your dream retirement. They traded up to a lakeside retreat. It’s a welcoming community where there are no chain hotels or mega-resorts. But here you can swim, sail, kayak, and windsurf.
“We decided we could either take a chance, come here and retire a few years early, or stay in Minnesota longer and play it safe,” says Jim. They chose the option with warmer weather, fewer expenses, and less work. Today they live an hour from the Caribbean on a lake with a dock out front—two sailboats anchored just offshore.
Determined to take an early retirement from her job as a special-education teacher, Anne W. says, “I needed to go where I could live comfortably on $1,500 a month. My plan was to keep my home [in Ontario], and go back there every summer. But since moving, that plan has changed: I don’t ever want to leave…”
Today she’s happily ensconced on a Caribbean island. She liked her work back home, but it was exhausting, occupying her days and stealing her nights with planning, grading and writing reports. Overtired, she spent her weekends recovering.
“It was a soul-saving decision to take early retirement,” she says. It’s allowed her to simply “do less” and live better… all for a fraction of what she’d spend back home.
“My biggest challenge since moving here? Deciding which of the seven nearby beaches I should pick for my daily swim. If I’m going to do less, I’m going to do it immersed in aquamarine blue, the same color I now daub onto canvas as I paint every day, right after I finish writing, three hours after I sip my first coffee, surrounded by a riot of brilliant birds.”