Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
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Part One: Contemplating an Exciting Move . . .
- Chapter 1: Can You Afford to Retire Where You Live?
- Chapter 2: Can You Really Live (Well) Overseas on $25,000 a Year?
- Chapter 3: What’s Your Deal Breaker?
- Chapter 4: The Most Common (and Avoidable) Mistakes Expats Make
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Chapter 5: Health Care
- The U.S. and Canadian Health Care Systems Are Not Healthy at All
- High Quality and Low Costs: Why Foreign Health Systems Work
- Public Versus Private Health Care Systems
- Is A Public Health Care System Right For You?
- Your Best Private Health Insurance Options Overseas
- The Good News: Moving Off the Comfort Couch Can Improve Your Health
- Chapter 6: The Challenges of Language and Culture
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Part Two: Making the Move
- Chapter 7: Belize
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Chapter 8: Costa Rica
- Costa Rica Ticks all the Boxes on Your Retirement Checklist
- Costa Rica Offers Many Advantages You May Not be Aware Of
- Costa Rica’s Top Expat Destinations
- Costa Rica’s Caribbean Coast—Wild and Rugged
- How Much Does it Cost to Live in Costa Rica?
- Best of All, Costa Rica Offers World-Class, Affordable Health Care
- Chapter 9: Ecuador
- Chapter 10: Mexico
- Chapter 11: Nicaragua
- Chapter 12: Panama
- Chapter 13: Uruguay
- Chapter 14: Europe
- Chapter 15: Southeast Asia
- Chapter 16: Boots on the Ground
- Chapter 17: You Found Your Paradise. Now What?
- Chapter 18: Once You Know Where You’re Going
- Part Three: Once You Get There
- Epilogue
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget: How to Live Well on $25,000 a Year
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118758595
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