The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget: How to Live Well on $25,000 a Year Author: Suzan Haskins | Language: English | ISBN:
B00H7JE3DW | Format: EPUB
The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget: How to Live Well on $25,000 a Year Description
Achieve your dream of retiring abroad while on a budgetThe 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.
- File Size: 953 KB
- Print Length: 266 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1118758595
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 20, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00H7JE3DW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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This book has an excellent overview of living overseas listed by country. The book is probably worth it for the country-by-country section alone. From Central to South America, then Europe, then Asia, you get an overview of life outside the US and budgets for retirees. Healthcare is discussed, along with insurance issues (some places won't issue a policy after age 64) and whether or not the healthcare system is a good one.
There is a also a discussion of lifestyle--I wish there had been more, for some of the countries where the authors have lived. They moved around a lot. They offer advice such as bringing your American appliances as buying them overseas can be terribly expensive and they are not as good--but there is little discussion of the fact you may have to pay duty, in many places on personal items brought in. There are a lot of import tariffs you may not expect. Is is better to hire a laundry service or simply deal with foreign appliances? And what about voltages? Yes, you can use a step-down transformer in countries with 220V, but 50Hz vs 60Hz is tough on motors, so often, it's not practical. But..this is just one aspect of living overseas.
There is also a chapter on working overseas, teaching, volunteering. It's a sketchy discussion but the bottom line is "don't rely on extra income from working."
A bigger issue: What does "good healthcare" actually mean? If you are ill, really ill, you'd possibly need to come to the US for treatment for very serious problems such as cancer or advanced cardiac surgery. That's where the rest of the world comes when the chips are really down. Yes, our system has many problems, but American medicine is outstanding for complicated illness. I am not convinced this is true for other countries necessarily.
‘The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget’ written by Suzan Haskins and Dan Prescher discusses a topic that nowadays is very interesting when the offer is never better, and financial capabilities far worse than ten years ago – a detailed guide to retiring abroad.
At the beginning it is important to say that the authors have done an excellent job managing to reduce this interesting and extensive topic to the book of very acceptable size of 270-odd pages that will certainly make an additional reason to be welcomed by the audience. The authors started their book with some numbers, informing us that only in US more than 10 thousand people are turning 65 every year that is 79 million people drawing Social Security benefits being at the mercy of Medicare.
The times are changing and people are not only considering retiring to some house in the countryside or moving from the bustle of the big city into some small peaceful town, but more and more are thinking to spend their life somewhere far away, in another culture, trying at least in the older age to recoup some things missed in their younger days. For this reason, Suzan Haskins and Dan Prescher’s book apart from giving a great overview of all the living overseas possibilities in different countries worlwide, gives a handful of information presented in concise special overview lists such as “Five most common questions asked about moving overseas”, “Yes, you can have your social security checks sent to your overseas bank or address” or “Eight factors that have to be considered when choosing your overseas retirement destination”.
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