Retire like you have always dreamed.
The world is your oyster.
RETIRING IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
Did you know you can live in a warm tropical country at a fraction of the cost? Places such as Thailand, Ecuador, Vietnam, Portugal, and Mexico are much more affordable.
HEALTHY CHOICES
Your happiness begins with finding a healthy lifestyle just for you.
Traveling abroad opens your eyes to new cultures.
You’d be surprised how friendly other cultures can be.
Retire in La Paz, Mexico
Here's an interesting place to consider for a low-cost retirement. La Paz is on the Baja California Peninsula, about 500 miles from San Diego, California - or a two hour flight. The city of 220,000 is the capital of the state of Baja and enjoys one of the highest...
Your Job Does Not Define You
Two years ago, I had a life altering event. I lost my job. Never having lost a job before, this was devastating. In my mind, the job defined who I was. After working in the computer field for over 25 years as a network administrator, I was a good one. It was a high...
Retire in Queretaro, Mexico
Santiago de Queretaro is a clean, modern city of 1.8 million people located about 130 miles north of Mexico City right in the middle of Mexico. You will find modern shopping including Office Depot, Home Depot, Sam's Club and other familiar outlets. There are also...
Dental Care in Mexico
Our 2014 snowbird adventure found us camping in Yuma for two weeks. We questioned why several of our neighbors in the RV park would head out in their cars every morning and not return until evening? "We go for dental care in Mexico" was the reply. They said it...
Retire in Las Cruces, New Mexico
While you might not have thought of Las Cruces as a place to live, it is certainly worth investigating. This is not what you'd expect in the desert. Sitting at 3,900 feet elevation, Las Cruces is surrounded by mountains and has the Rio Grande river just west of the...
Spending Your Kid’s Inheritance
It's a beautiful summer day in Portland, and there's not a cloud in the sky. I am a teenager, and my grandfather is visiting us. I love this guy. He taught me how to fish when I was a little boy, and he always has such interesting stories to tell. Today, he has this...
Retire in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson has so much going for it. The weather is cooler than Phoenix, there is a strong, vibrant retirement community, the cost of living is not too high and, depending on where you live, the crime rate is moderate. The mean listing price for the Tucson area is...
Retire in Frederick, Maryland
Frederick Maryland is a medium sized town just north of Washington D.C. and west of Baltimore. Who knows how long this area has been occupied, but the first Europeans settled in what is now Frederick in 1745. Primarily a Pennsylvania Dutch (ethnic Germans) town, it...
But What About My Stuff?
Haven’t we all, even for a moment, thought about just jumping in the car or on a plane and leaving? Just walk away from it all? What freedom it would be to live like a nomad and go where the wind blows us. Stay someplace until the weather changes or another offer...
Planning my life to live in another country
I have been planning my life to live in another country. Why do I want to do this? I have two exciting reasons.
Safe Foreign Travel
One of the things that concerns all of us is how safe we will be in another country or culture. While horror stories abound on the news, rest assured there are hundreds of thousands of people living and travelling all over the world on any given day of the year. ...
Retire in Banff, Alberta
Looking for a cool place to spend the summer? Or a winter wonderland? We found just the place for you! The town of Banff, Alberta, Canada is simply amazing. This cherished gem in the Canadian Rockies is a town of just 8,500 permanent residents and tourism is...
Retire in Columbia, Missouri
When you combine 'Town and Gown' the result is a vibrant community with plenty of educational opportunities, generally safe neighborhoods with well educated neighbors. Columbia is all that and more. Home to the University of Missouri-Columbia, Stephens College,...
Retire in Hermann, Missouri
Driving down Highway 94 between Jefferson City and Kansas City, we stumbled into a little travel time warp! It is well worth your while to stop and retire in Hermann, Missouri, if only for the afternoon. This is one of those places where we felt we were leaving...
Retire in Almonte, Ontario
One of our readers suggested that we write about her home town in Canada and listed several reasons why. The first thing I discovered is that the town is very close to where my grandfather was born and raised (in Kingston) and I remember the countryside being quite...
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