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The 10 Best Countries to Retire Overseas in 2021
The 10 Best Countries to Retire Overseas in 2021
The pandemic is a great time to explore the possibilities, whether you dream of retiring among tropical beaches, mountain hideaways or culture-rich cities.
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The middle of a global pandemic might not seem like a good time to move away, but it is a great time to explore your overseas retirement options.
Exotic locales where you might live larger for less than in the U.S. include everything from tropical beaches and mountain hideaways to culture-rich cities.
The editors of International Living magazine, a monthly publication for subscribers, recently ranked their top 10 countries for overseas retirement for 2021. Using statistics and on-the-scene journalists, they average scores on these 10 areas important to retirees:
No matter where you’re dreaming of reinventing your life overseas, the key to success is a network of support.
I’m talking about on-the-ground experts… and other expats already living the life you’re imagining for yourself.
Access to that world is the difference between an adventure filled with discovery and delight…
And days of frustration and challenge.
After more than 35 years covering this live- and retire-overseas beat… and more than 22 years living as an expat myself raising my family and building businesses across borders I know this to be true.
The right connections are the secret sauce.
Now, today, for the first time, I’m making all of my personal connections available to you.
After more than 14 months away, Lief and I have returned to Los Islotes.
We arrived at Tocumen International late last Wednesday afternoon, spent two nights in Panama City reconnecting with staff to the extent current quarantine restrictions allowed, then flew to the Veraguas coast early Friday morning.
“What’s it like coming back after having been away so long?” a friend asked over drinks Sunday afternoon. “Is it strange?”
“No, in fact, it’s not,” Lief replied. “We’ve slid right back into our life here.”
Another friend reminds me often that success is the result of heroic habit.
Lief and I have taken that advice to heart as we’ve worked to organize our lives together these past two-and-a-half decades.
I knew Panama had been hit hard by the pandemic, but hearing about the challenges and living them are two different things.
Staff in Panama have been living through the various lockdown measures since last March, but their accounts of the pains of the restrictions, which at times have been even stricter than they are right now, didn’t give the full picture of the situation on the ground.
Restaurants are closed, but restaurants have been closed for months in Paris, where I spent much of last year, as well.
People in Panama are working from home… just as so many, including Kathleen and me, were in Paris.