To me this is the problem with alot of these plans. Sure in third world countries your dollar goes further and you can live a higher standard of living. But you are living it in a place that has real poverty and want and with Medical Care that - while noting its vast deficiencies – is almost certainly not going to be to the standards or practices of U.S. Health Care.
What if someone said: *Trade in your New York house & you can buy a Villa in Baghdad! The climate is like Arizona only better. You can live like Elvis at Graceland! *That is a dramatic and wild example – but really it is only an exaggeration of degree and not of the concept.
I’m not saying all the ideas offered in this thread are like this – but the idea of retiring to most Third World carries this element with it.
My theory is that time slows down when you have little to do-so the ideal retirement is to some place that nothing happens in. So, I’m looking for a boring place! Plus, boring places are probably cheap places to live (since most don’t want to live there). So, any suggestions? was thinking that maybe some far west ghost town would be ideal-any suggestions?
Bridget, thanks for the info! I hadn’t considered around Guadalajara, but then I haven’t visited there. Yet. Actually I haven’t thought about it at all rather than this “Oh, Mexico would be nice” vague plan.
Guadalajara is incredible. Very swank and cosmopolitan while still maintaining old-world charm and sophistication. Chapala and Ajijic are absolutely beatiful and just a short drive away.
Actually I haven’t thought about it at all rather than this “Oh, Mexico would be nice” vague plan.