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'To hell with it': She ditched Canada at 56 for Belize, where a couple can get 'everything you could imagine' for under $50,000 a year


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By Catey Hill, MarketWatch
She moved to a beautiful, laid-back island in 2013 and now, for a surprising reason, she s returning to North America
Marlene Mar Houghton never wanted a conventional life.
Adventure that s what makes my heart sing, the now-63-year-old, former British Columbia resident tells MarketWatch. So when she happened across a story online about Belize being the next hot retirement destination about seven years ago, she almost immediately booked a flight.
I got to Belize and fell in love. It s raw not like Hawaii or Mexico people are very nice, it s English-speaking. I just found it so fascinating and thought this might be an interesting place to do a coffee shop, Houghton tells MarketWatch, adding that she d wanted to open a coffee shop abroad for years because she d found it was often hard to find a good cup of coffee when traveling. ....

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