Retire for as little as $600 a month

These 5 overseas communities make it remarkably easy for retirees to stretch their dollars. The best-value havens pair financial security with a quality lifestyle.

By International Living staff

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Crying Tree
Aug 14, 2012 4:11PM
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That is a beautiful beach. A beautiful ocean. The smile on the emergency nurse in the morning was ear to ear and that was a gold medal winner in beauty. It was a very beautiful moment. She wasn't very big but you see the pride in her by saving another life. USA surgeons & nurses should be shown more to the aging who will need them sooner or later. They are worth every penny of medicare or other payments. 65 was the right age for social security. Too much stress on an old body will take you out. That doctor that save me was in the 1%. The working rich. On call along with the nurses day & night. They are working people along with the rest of us doing their job.
fastcook
Aug 14, 2012 3:39PM
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WHo holds your retirement nestegg when livving abroad,Not equador i hope

 

cool 1
Aug 14, 2012 3:29PM
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   ITS hard to belive that all the blame is on Obama  .... did every one forget  Goerge Bush??   and what a bang up job he did....

StandstoReason
Aug 14, 2012 3:28PM
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Why is it that seniors have to retire in third world countries and use substandard medical care because Social Security cannot pay them enough to live and eat and yet all the people from the third world countries are welcomed here and given taxpayer handouts and free medical care?  You keep touting how wonderful life is in Central America for less than $1,000 a month.  If life is so wonderful there, why are all the people who live there crawling up over the border at night and coming here for a better life?  Answer me that.  Our jobs are already down in Mexico because of NAFTA, and there's no factory work in the U.S., why are they all coming here if Panama, Nicarauga, Colombia, as well as the Dominican Republic; ?  Why, Why, Why? 
HelmetRod
Aug 14, 2012 3:22PM
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nice, just another way for baby boomers to suck more money out of this country and personally benefit.    they can retire in luxury where the jobs were shipped to while they ran the show!   
dontneed2know
Aug 14, 2012 3:19PM
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I will retire in the USA where I was born and raised.  I just cannot see myself moving to another country to retire especially since all the economies are going in the toilet.  Give me FL and the Ocean :-)
Ironboots
Aug 14, 2012 3:08PM
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Sadly, we should be able to retire in America if we didn't have trillions $$$ of debt, reasonable health care, and manufacturing jobs here in USA verses abroad.  Both parties pissed away our money in the past and in the present.  Stop, enough already.  Bring the troops home and place them on the US/Mexico border side by side.  No Hope, No Change.  More of the same.  Fire Obama - if you keep doing something wrong (cause it doesn't work) and expect a different outcome is "insanity." 

Beach potato
Aug 14, 2012 3:08PM
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I retrired on the Space Coast of Fla. I got a Rental- 16th house down the street from the Atlantic Ocean. I live on Social Security of $1400. a month and enjoy the life here. No state income tax and the area is really inexpensive. Really great VA clinic nearby for my Medical needs. Its all good. And its near an Ice Cream store! USA is the best place to live. My TV has all the channels (free) thanks to an on-air HD antenna.
LINK MASSING
Aug 14, 2012 2:38PM
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   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.
TAKIDOBRE
Aug 14, 2012 2:36PM
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JAMES LAFOE, IF YOUR AUNT HAD BALLS, HOW WOULD YOUR UNCLE FEEL ABOUT THAT???
drdoug_3
Aug 14, 2012 2:25PM
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Our friends and neighbors, the Philipino's have mastered the art of working for the US, only to take their retirement back home once their goals were made, some corporations do this same thing when out sourcing, this couple can do math, wonder if they every think about being part of the problem, instead of being part of a solution.
Serendipity74
Aug 14, 2012 2:04PM
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Did you read the article???  The cost of all the items that you are adding up  are 75% less in the areas they mentions.  You still have the good old USA prices going on when you were typing the costs. 

Negative, negative.......no positive remarks anymore ever. 

 

 

careaboutpeople
Aug 14, 2012 1:38PM
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What a crock!!! Let me see. No way. Stupid Ad wasted time publishing.

 

Monthly Bills

 

Electric or Gas  $ 200.00

Phone if you would to call anyone  $ 50.00

Car Insurance if you own    75.00

Food & Drink $70.00 x 4 weeks  $ 280.00 (Eating poorly you will need the Health Insurance.)

200+50+75+280=605 Oops I went over

Hope to God your car never breaks down.

Health Insurance (Not enough)  $ 850.00 per adult over 65

Rent if you dont own( Not enough)

Aquila Grigia
Aug 14, 2012 1:32PM
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any of those places and you won't live long enought to buy groceries, TOO dangerous, who ever is reporting this doesn't know the facts. 
Aquila Grigia
Aug 14, 2012 1:30PM
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did I hear that right ? Nicaraga
vacation1
Aug 14, 2012 1:29PM
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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.)
BillyJack55
Aug 14, 2012 12:58PM
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"Retire on $600.00 a month"

Where Antarctica?

If you believe this article....your an Idiot....and if your a idiot, you'll need 5 X  $600 a month.

If your a liberal....you'll need 10 X $600 a month.

If your a liberal idiot you'll need 20 X $600 a month

Impeach Obama71
Aug 14, 2012 12:28PM
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"Retire on $600.00 a month"

 

Like Obama wants you to!!!

 

Welcome to Obama's impoverished America!!!

 

Wake up people before it's too late!!!

Mersey Boys
Aug 14, 2012 7:41AM
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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.
poo biter
Aug 13, 2012 11:22PM
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Does MSN have any new stories? or are they going to just keep recycling the same old crap every other month by just changing a few words here & there.
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