THIS ARTICLE IS CRAP.  I JUST GOT BACK LAST YEAR AFTER SPENDING SEVEN YEARS IN PANAMA.  IT WAS OK AT FIRST, BUT THEN THE AMERICANS STARTED COMING DOWN,  YOU CAN NOT LIVE ON $600.00 A MONTH.  THAT IS A FLAT LIE.  IF MARRIED, $1,2OO TO $2,000.  THAT'S IF YOU OWN YOUR CAR, AND HOUSE.  THE INSURANCE THEY TALK ABOUT WILL ONLY GO TO $3,000 COVERAGE, AND THEN YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR IT.  ALL THE DISCOUNTS ARE MADE FOR THE LOCALS, NOT INVADERS LIKE US.  THEY DON'T MENTION DAYS WITH OUT WATER, POWER FAILURE, FILTHY KITCHEN RESTAURANTS, THIEVES, AND NOW THEY ARE GETTING VIOLENT.  LAND PIMPS TELL YOU ALL THE GOOD STUFF SO YOU WILL BUY LAND FROM THEM..  BELIEVE ME, THEY ARE 20 TIMES MAKING WHAT THEY PAID FOR IT.

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With these sort of articles they always print the photographs that put a place in the very  possible best light. I am always reminded of the part in the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" where they wind-up in Bolivia and  it's awful. Butch says something like how maybe the rest of the country is better and the Kid snaps back, "what if this is the garden spot of Bolivia?" The vast majority of us would get to these places and say "yuk" and go into depression. A very few of us can do it; they're the kind who can do the 'Walden Pond' thing anywhere and love it. I have been to 25  countries outside of the USA, and I have enjoyed about 20 of them. However, no matter how much you like a place overseas it'll never be home, and you'll miss so many things that it isn't worth it. One is better off relocating to a cheaper state where one encounters less culture shock.

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I now live in the Philippines, and i would think that it might be kinda hard to live on $600. a month here, maybe $800.- $900. might be better.  I'm living off my pension of $1,400. a month and living very well here.  I brought a house in a gated community here which is paid for so no mortgage.  I doubt very seriously i could have survived living off my pension in NYC, i would still had to find other employment if i stayed there, but here in the Philippines things are very cheap.  You can get most or all your medications here without a doctors prescription, going to the ER (if need to) is also cheap compared to in the U.S.  Temperature stays in the 80's to 90 range year round.  As far as i am concern, this is "PARADISE". .

Before I moved to any of these countries I'd like to know how much it cost to bribe the police to keep an eye on you or...not kidnap or kill you....

 

I'm staying in the U.S. even though I may have to retire to a cardboard box.

My wife and I have visited places literally all over the world, and we know most of them  would suck to live full time.  "Nice to visit but wouldn't want to live there."  USA,USA,USA!!  (and yeah, western Europe, etc.)

   INTERNATIONAL LIVING IS THE BIGGEST BULL S--- BOOK WRITTEN.  LIVING ON $600 A MONTH IS A FLAT **** LIE.  I LIVED IN PANAMA FOR 8 YEARS.  AT FIRST CHEAP, NOW ITS HIGHER THAN THE U.S. TO EAT.  ALL THE INSURANCES IS CRAP.  BAD HOSPITALS, RESTAURANTS, CRAZY GRINGOS'.  THEY ALL HAVE A CONSPIRACY THEORY.  WHAT PISSES ME OFF IS THE ONE WHO WRITES THIS CRAP.  BAD WATER IF IT WORKS, POWER OUTAGES WHICH IN TURN SCREWS UP ALL THE ELECTRONICS LIKE REFRIGERATOR, MICRO WAVE, ECT.  FOR ONE PERSON IT TAKES A MINIMUM OF $1,200 A MONTH, OTHER WISE YOU LIVE LIKE A HOMELESS PERSON.