7 Reasons You Might Hate Living In Belize (Or Totally Love It)
As we've been discussing, Belize is a beautiful, safe, welcoming wonderland of wide-open spaces and sugar-sand beaches. An idyllic place...
Read morePopulation: 360,346
Capital City: Belmopan
Climate: Tropical
Language(s): English, Spanish
International Dialing Code: +501
Prime Minister: Dean Oliver Barrow
Belize is a safe, welcoming, unassuming little country where the population values personal privacy, self-determination, and freedom.
As well as a reef, ruins, rivers, and rain forest Belize offers easy residency and tax-free living. It’s an English-speaking safe haven for both you and your money.
With a population of just 350,000, this country has a small-town ambiance. It is easy to become a part of the community. Both locals and expats are welcoming and willing to lend a hand or to make an effort for a neighbor.
Little Belize also offers a whole lot of what many tourists, retirees, and investors are looking for: sandy beachfront, both along its mainland coast and encircling its offshore cays. Prices for a bit of sand on quintessentially Caribbean Ambergris Caye, are very affordable by Caribbean standards, and there is an active and vibrant community, trendy restaurants, expat-run cafes, and lively beach bars.
Alternatively the Cayo region, which boasts Mayan archaeological sites, caves, streams, waterfalls, and forests offers incredible opportunities for embracing a self-sufficient life.
For non-Americans, Belize offers tax-free living, with legal residency easy to obtain through the country’s Qualified Retired Persons (QRP) program. Foreign residents pay no tax in Belize on non-Belize income. Thus, be you British, German, Australian, or Irish, for example, you could become a QRP and reduce your overall tax burden to virtually nothing.
Belize is also a banking haven, one of the few remaining in the world, a jurisdiction where every bank must maintain a minimum of 24% liquidity at all times and where bankers respect bank secrecy. It’s one of the easiest places in the world to open an offshore account.
For all of those reasons, Belize claims a spot every year at or near the top of our Best Retirement Havens in the World List.
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Read moreBelize’s Qualified Retirement Program (QRP) gets a lot of press. It’s one of the most user-friendly retirement visa programs in the world, and it provides certain benefits. But changes to the program have made it less attractive to expats… especially those already in Belize. A number of expats I know are even letting their QRP status lapse. Here’s why… 1. It’s basically a dressed-up tourist visa The QRP is administered by the Belizean Tourist Board (BTB), not the Immigration Department....
Read moreBelize’s Qualified Retirement Program (QRP) gets a lot of press. It’s one of the most user-friendly retirement visa programs in the world, and it provides certain benefits. But changes to the program have made it less attractive to expats… especially those already in Belize. A number of expats I know are even letting their QRP status lapse. Here’s why… 1. It’s basically a dressed-up tourist visa The QRP is administered by the Belizean Tourist Board (BTB), not the Immigration Department....
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