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The World’s Top 20 Retirement Havens

Live And Invest Overseas by Live And Invest Overseas
Dec 30, 2013
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How To Retire Overseas, Part 2

Dec. 30, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland: The key to finding the right place for you to retire overseas is connecting the dots between your personal preferences and priorities and the world’s most appealing places to live or retire.

Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader,

You’ve got your list. (If you missed yesterday’s issue, catch up here.)

Now you need another, shorter list, one that includes the destinations that might support the lifestyle you seek.

How do you choose your ideal retire overseas haven from among the 200+ countries in the world? To help focus your thinking, here are our picks for the world’s top 20 overseas retirement havens as we move toward New Year 2014:

  • Abruzzo, Italy
  • Ambergris Caye, Belize
  • Boquete, Panama
  • Cayo, Belize
  • Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • Copper Coast, Ireland
  • Costa de Oro, Uruguay
  • Cuenca, Ecuador
  • Georgetown, Malaysia
  • Granada, Nicaragua
  • Hoi An, Vietnam
  • Hua Hin, Thailand
  • Istria, Croatia
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Languedoc, France
  • La Serena, Chile
  • Medellin, Colombia
  • Mendoza, Argentina
  • Panama City Beaches, Panama
  • Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Now, here’s the problem. I can’t take this conversation much further. You’ve got your list of what matters to you…and now you’ve got a list of the world’s top retirement havens right now.

Given all this, should you retire to Panama…or to France? To Uruguay…or to Thailand? I have no idea.

You’ve got to do the work of considering the 20 destinations on our World’s Top Havens list in the context of your personal preferences and priorities yourself. You’ve got to connect your own dots.

For example:

If you’re looking to retire on a limited budget, look closely at Ecuador, Nicaragua, Thailand, Uruguay, and Vietnam, the world’s most affordable places to live comfortably.

If you want a temperate climate year-round, put Cuenca, Ecuador; Medellin, Colombia; and Boquete, Panama, on your list. If you want four seasons, think about Argentina, Chile, Croatia, France, Italy, or Uruguay.

Get the shakes at the thought of life without reliable Internet? Take Nicaragua off your list and parts of Ecuador, too. If top-tier infrastructure is a deal-breaker for you, I’d recommend reconciling yourself to city living in Latin America and Asia in general. You can’t count on regular, reliable Internet in the “interiors” of most countries in these regions.

Don’t like bugs? Don’t retire to a tropical beach.

Get sad without sunshine? Don’t move to Ireland.

Want to start a business? Come to Panama, the most business-friendly jurisdiction in the world today…or Malaysia if you want to be on that side of the planet.

Travel a lot? Come to Panama in the Americas or France in Euro-land. From Tocumen you can get anywhere in North or South America with ease…and from Charles de Gaulle, you’re no more than a couple of hops away from anywhere, period.

Value regular nights of culture? Consider Buenos Aires, Paris, or (more budget-friendly) Medellin.

Want to be far away from the troubles of the world? Think about the coast of Uruguay, where life continues safe and separate.

“Retiring” with children? Education is your number-one priority. In this case, consider France, Panama, or Uruguay.

If you have an ongoing health concern, medical care facilities are your top priority. Put, again, France, at the top of your list if money is not another key criterion…and consider Panama, Malaysia, and Uruguay if it is.

Panama is an international banking center…Nicaragua is not.

Foreign ownership of property is restricted in Thailand, if that matters to you.

Argentineans enjoy drama–in their politics, in their economic policies, in their cocktail party conversation. Will you find that entertaining or unnerving?

France is one of the most legislated places on earth. The French, though, simply ignore the rules and the restrictions as suits them. Could you?

Taxis in places like Panama City, Panama, and Granada, Nicaragua, often come minus things like door handles, air conditioning, and tail lights. Will that bother you?

Latinos live life loud and in the street and don’t value their own time let alone yours. The French are reserved and formal. Asians don’t have the same ideas about personal space that North Americans do.

Which of those things make you uncomfortable?

OK, over to you. You’ll have to continue this line of thinking for yourself, but you get the idea.

Meantime, as we begin the countdown to the New Year, we’re gearing up to do everything we can to support your connect-the-dots efforts. We want 2014 to be the year your new life overseas dreams become reality.

We’ll pick this up again tomorrow.

Kathleen Peddicord

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