# Questions about retiring abroad **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 1, 2021, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-retiring-abroad/951711 "2021-10-01T05:08:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-retiring-abroad/951711/6 "2021-10-02T22:14:16Z")
A really general piece of advice that I offered elsewhere: > [@Best countries to retire to...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-countries-to-retire-to/933667/14): > > 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,… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-retiring-abroad/951711)._