# Best countries to retire to...?

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**Created:** [February 24, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-countries-to-retire-to/933667 "2021-02-24T20:05:24Z")\
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I’m going to endeavor a wee tangent and hope that I’m not OT:

Try it before you buy it.

My passion was international travel, and I generally preferred ‘emerging nations’ to ‘developed.’

And I tended to spend a month at a time in a country so that I could learn a few things and not _always_ stand out like a sore thumb tourist.

And maybe figure out where I might like to land when the time came.

Now I watch a lot of expat videos. The one thing they stress, and with which I wholeheartedly agree, is to vacation there a lot _and_ rent for a year before you consider making any kind of commitments.

It’s very hard to know what _life_ in a new country will be like without dedicating a fair amount of time. Myriad reasons for this, but not least among them is that most people who put up websites and video channels are economically tied to you moving there.

_Truth_ can be much harder to find without being on the ground, and for a good amount of time.

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