Achieve your dream of retiring abroad while on a budget The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget provides a detailed guide to one of the least-known but most effective retirement strategies in today's chaotic economic environment: retiring abroad. The premise is simple: Enjoy a happier, healthier, more fulfilling retirement than you could possibly afford in the U.S. or Canada by finding the right overseas retirement haven. The book reveals those affordable havens and the strategies for successfully making the move that could save your retirement. Aimed at retirees and near-retirees in the U.S. and Canada, this book's strategies apply just as well to younger people and people with families who are looking for ways to improve their quality of life while at the same time lowering their cost of living. It includes solutions for the challenges of continuing to work and earn money abroad, too. As long-time contributors to the acknowledged leader in the field, International Living, authors Suzan Haskins and Dan Prescher have at their disposal more than thirty years of International Living experience and expertise in the topic. They've been writing about living overseas for more than 12 years and have created their own broad and deep body of work, including regular blogs on the topic for Huffington Post and AARP. The authors include information and strategies that can be successfully applied by anyone regardless of their political or economic opinions. For anyone who wants a happier, healthier, more affordable life, The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget shows you how to enjoy the romance and excitement of living abroad on an affordable budget.

Achieve your dream of retiring abroad while on a budgetThe International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on aBudget provides a detailed guide to one of the least-known butmost effective retirement strategies in today's chaotic economicenvironment: retiring abroad. The premise is simple: Enjoy ahappier, healthier, more fulfilling retirement than you couldpossibly afford in the U.S. or Canada by finding the right overseasretirement haven. The book reveals those affordable havens and thestrategies for successfully making the move that could save yourretirement. Aimed at retirees and near-retirees in the U.S. andCanada, this book's strategies apply just as well to younger peopleand people with families who are looking for ways to improve theirquality of life while at the same time lowering their cost ofliving. It includes solutions for the challenges of continuing towork and earn money abroad, too.As long-time contributors to the acknowledged leader in thefield, International Living, authors Suzan Haskins andDan Prescher have at their disposal more than thirty years ofInternational Living experience and expertise in the topic. They'vebeen writing about living overseas for more than 12 years and havecreated their own broad and deep body of work, including regularblogs on the topic for Huffington Post and AARP. The authorsinclude information and strategies that can be successfully appliedby anyone regardless of their political or economic opinions. Foranyone who wants a happier, healthier, more affordable life, TheInternational Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budgetshows you how to enjoy the romance and excitement of living abroadon an affordable budget.

foreword ixBill BonnerIntroduction xiWhat if you could retire better, more affordably,and even earlier than you expected?Part oneContemplating an Exciting Move1Chapter 1Can You Afford to Retire Where You Live? 3Chapter 2Can You Really Live (Well) Overseason $25,000 a Year?15Chapter 3What's Your Deal Breaker?23Chapter 4The Most Common (and Avoidable) Mistakes Expats Make 33Chapter 5Health Care: Myth versus Reality 39Chapter 6The Challenges of Language and Culture 53Part TwoMaking the Move: It's a Big World Where Should YOU Go? 61Chapter 7Belize: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem(and It's All in English!) 63Chapter 8Costa Rica:Your Easiest Choice 73Chapter 9Ecuador: Something for Everyone 87Chapter 10Mexico: The Top Foreign Destination for U.S. and Canadian Retirees103Chapter 11Nicaragua: Ready for Prime Time117Chapter 12Panama: The World's Best Retirement Program(and Much More)131Chapter 13Uruguay: More First World Than the United States? 145Chapter 14Europe: All the Ingredients for the Good Life157Chapter 15Southeast Asia: Exotic and Affordable175Chapter 16Boots on the Ground: Zeroing In on the Community That's Right for You 189Chapter 17You Found Your Paradise. Now What?: Should You Rent or Buy? And How to Know When Halfway Isn't the Wrong Way 199Chapter 18Once You Know Where You're Going: Put Your Plan in Action 207Part ThreeOnce You Get There: Adjusting to Your New Life 217Chapter 19Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitude: Maintaining the Bridge between Your Past and Present Lives 219Chapter 20When the Hammock Gets Boring: What to Do after You Retire and Move Overseas 227Chapter 21Moving On: This Is Not a One-Way Highway 239Epilogue If We Knew Then What We Know Now 245Index 251