What if you could retire early… even with a small nest egg and little income?
What if you could live a comfortable retirement right on the beach…
Or in the historic quarter of a charming Old World city…
Or on your own little farm surrounded by rolling hills…
Or wherever your ideal lifestyle takes you?
And what if you could have this life for just US$1,476 a month, or even less?
That’s the average U.S. Social Security check… and it’s all you need to live well in our favorite places abroad.
Indeed, that’s the core promise we make to you in these dispatches—that you can reinvent your life for the better and realize the retirement of your dreams on a budget of US$1,500 a month or even less.
Travel, frequent dinners out, a maid… even the home of your dreams—they’re all possible when you call one of the world’s 21 best-value places to live or retire overseas home.
In addition and very important, a low cost of living is just a small part of the picture… only the beginning of this story.
When you retire abroad—even part-time—you open the door to adventure, opportunity, and freedom. You not only make it possible to reduce your cost of living. You make it possible to increase (I’d say dramatically) your quality of life.
Because this is, again, the core promise we make you as a reader of these daily dispatches, we’re devoting this week to delivering on that promise directly.
This week, we’re going to show you how to choose your piece of paradise abroad while, at the same time, showing you how to plan and carry out your move with the least amount of time and hassle possible.
Best of all, you don’t have to get on a plane to start this journey…
We’re going to bring you our top choices—21 unique and irresistible destinations—live and direct to wherever you’re reading this right now.
Yes, you can do this. It’s a lot easier than you might think…
More than 11.5 million Americans and Canadians—and countless others—are already living their best lives outside the country where they were born.
Over the past 35 years, I’ve personally helped many thousands of folks—some probably just like you—realize their dreams of adventure overseas.
I’m thinking of people like:
- Judith and Harold who moved from Palmer, Alaska, to the beach town of Piriápolis, Uruguay, eight years ago. Not ones to sit beneath a palm sipping piña coladas all day, this couple bought 50 acres of farmland and, today, raise sheep and grow raspberries, blackberries, grapes, eucalyptus, and more. Both are avid whale-watchers during the winter mating season, and their home in Punta Ballena (Whale Point) provides them a first-row seat right from their front porch.
- Barbara Petrohan—a single lady from a tiny town in Kansas who now splits her time between two of our top overseas havens—Medellín and Lagos. Barbara is living a grand adventure between the beaches of Old Europe and the greenest city in Latin America. Three years on, Barbara now boasts an impressive network of friends across three continents…
- Paul Richards—a retired publisher and golf aficionado—who, along with his wife and daughter, left the U.K. behind a decade ago for a new life in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Paul loves the many amenities available in the city: golf, tennis, bowling, plenty of good restaurants (local and international), and the Chiang Mai Expat Club. On a recent hospital stay, Paul found the standard of health care superior to that in the U.K.—and he was delighted to see his dental bills are 30% to 40% cheaper, too…
- David Morrill was a syndicated columnist and editor who was ready for a new life abroad, but not ready to retire completely. He moved to Cuenca, Ecuador, where he founded the city’s first English-speaking real estate company, which has thrived ever since…
- Rob Burrows was working his way through the rat race in his hometown of Cleveland, leaving him only two weeks every year to vacation in the Caribbean. Eventually, Rob figured out a way to make every day a vacation—he bought a beach bar in Belize. These days, Rob and his wife are having the time of their lives on a white-sand beach… Rob even reports he lost 70 pounds after his first 8 months living his new beach life overseas…
- I could go on… hundreds of expats I know personally are already out there living the lives they once dreamed of overseas. This week I’m going to introduce some of them to you so they can share their stories in detail.
Here’s my point:
These everyday people are living their overseas adventure… and you can, too.
These folks are people just like you and me.
Some wanted to break from their daily grinds…
Some were anxious about their shrinking nest eggs…
And some were just bored with the same ol’ lives in the same ol’ places…
But they all wanted an enjoyable and happy retirement… one that’s stimulating, fun, and stress free.
That is, these people weren’t going to settle for an “average” retirement. And you shouldn’t either.
You’ve lived your entire life looking forward to these years…
And the sooner you reach out and grab the life you’ve dreamt of for this stage, the more time you’ll have to enjoy it.
And that’s what I have in store for you this week—a way to kick-start your move overseas using the easiest, quickest, and most affordable way possible.
More tomorrow.
Kathleen Peddicord
