Travel Belize

Rediscovering Ambergris Caye

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The Perks, Privileges, And Peace Of Mind Of Retirement Overseas

The trouble with some Paradises is that they make it difficult for foreign residents to enjoy what they have to offer...

While others roll out the welcome mat, offering benefits, discounts, and other perks for foreign residents. Some countries are even competing to get your attention, offering tremendous advantages and benefits for you...

Whether you're moving for a better life...a lower cost of living...or a chance to keep more of what you earn and pay less in taxes...

This is the Next Step Guide you need to make your dreams of a new life overseas come true.

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• I stood off to the side of the road, out of the way, while the good people of San Ignacio, Belize, went about their midday business. I watched as the elementary schoolchildren, having finished their morning studies, filed out onto the street, skipping and racing and giggling as they made their ways to their respective buses for the ride home for lunch. Across the road, the river gurgled, and children too young to have been in school all morning splashed in it in raucous defense against the noontime heat. Vendors offered cold drinks, fresh fruit, fried fish lunch specials, pirated DVDs, housewares, and canoes for rent from small wooden structures and open-air huts. Young mothers passed by on bicycles, their babies on their backs or balanced on their handlebars. 
  
  The canoe man dragged one of his biggest canoes down to the riverside and positioned it on the bank for our eventual use, as we'd asked him to do. I waited and watched, then, finally, identified a lull in the traffic and darted across the road to make my way down to the river to join the others. 
  
  Such a busy place for the middle of nowhere. 
  
  The surprise, though, is that this place, San Ignacio, is not nearly as nowhere as I remembered it to be...

• The most important thing to understand about findingrental accommodation (short or long term) in a foreign country is that you can't do it long distance. Not if you want to get a good deal and avoid surprises. 
  
  For, to get a good deal, you must shop beyond the Internet market, and, to do that, you must have feet on the ground, either yours or those of a reliable local contact you trust. 
  
  You can begin your search long distance, googling "For Rent" opportunities in the place where you'd like to spend time. You'll find those houses and apartments listed either by other gringos (that is, fellow non-locals) or by locals with the wherewithal to advertise their rentals on the Net. In other words, this route leads to the high-ticket and priced-for-the-gringo-market properties. 
  
  Google "Se Aquila" (in a Spanish-speaking market) or "A Louer" (in a French one), and you improve your chances of penetrating the market to a more local level. But the real deals never make it anywhere a search engine could find them.

• If your interest is focused on Panama, what can you expect to find and at what cost? Here are current rental market overviews and sample rental costs for three key Panama markets...

• "With so many pretty little towns in the region," writes France Correspondent Lucy Culpepper in her feature report on the Béarn region of that country in this month's issue of the Overseas Retirement Letter, "it's difficult to choose a favorite. But, for me, the town of Morlaas stands out. It is a good size, not too big or too small. I find it very welcoming, offering every facility and service you need, plus aninteresting historical center and a beautiful country setting...

That's the popular thinking, but it's superficial and misguided, overlooking important fundamentals...

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Time For Plan B

In the United States and elsewhere, this is shaping up to be the retirement era of scraping by and making do.

But not everywhere. In some key spots, not only can you maintain the standard of living you enjoyed during your hard-working years...you can improve it!

You can live better than you ever did "back home."

By the sea...in big cities...in small colonial towns...sometimes, even, on the edge of nowhere...

Here's your road map to the world's top Plan B retirement options right now.

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