Retire overseas on $1,200 a month
You can live well -- even in luxury -- if you're willing to leave the US. Yes, it's a big move, but here are 5 places where a Social Security check goes a long way.
By Liz Weston
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as certain as our world rotates, we should as well, it shoul;d become as a huge holliday hotel complete with folks from evertwhere to meet, shouldnt we make this an affordabl;e feat we would have no meaness upon any street,we could work together having our lifes our greatest treasure rotation of thought about a world we have naught, but should you know get it together we could.......
I agree, we are under the poverty level, but to be covered by medicaid, we would have to be living in the states. Catch 22, as we cannot afford to live in the states with the same level of living as we have here and we have medical coverage here. If we lived in the states, it would cost us more than $300 deducted from our SS check to cover medicare, leaving us an income of $820/mo. Our combined medications, we are old folk, costs us about $140/mo. here and in the states, just triple that amount, leaving us with $400/mo. for food, rent, and all of the other daily living expenses.
Island Hopper, considering you are living on only $1200 you no doubt would be covered by medicaid...... Condidering you used the word..WE.. which gives the impession that combined SSI is the $1200 and would be only $14,000.00 and thus under or at the poverty level.
On the other hand perhaps those who have a spirit of adventure should excercise this spirit of adventure in their youth...... as it is said 'travel broadens the mind'.
I could never understand why many more young people do not want to follow the higher paying jobs...outsourced overseas.
When they return to the USA they would be able to better assess the standard of living in this country..... and no doubt find it lacking.
This would also enable them to knowledgably put more pressure on polititians to better the living/societal standards here at home... instead of believing these politicos who keep saying that we have the best standard of living in the world..... when it is they the politicos who have the best standard of living in the world and not the masses..... LOL
Ah...to be blinded by political rhetoric and false (country) pride .... as we are crushed to insolvency by hitherfore uncared for/untreated illnesses, diseases that become more costly to treat as the illness/disease gets worse etc and dropped by the for-profit health insurance companies.....and as we watch our homes float away under us,,,, so underwater they are and us not having any scuba gear....LOL
And all those section 8 housing now turned into high priced condos..... the streets, parks, under that bridge, over that grate..... here we come..... But we have the best standard of living in the world... LOL 
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Folks might do well to consider a retirement home here in Maine before heading off to a far of jungle to rest their bones. We have relatively low home prices, taxes and services available. Many of Maines current residents live quite comfortably on fairly limited resourses and have a standard of living that greatly exceeds most of the destinations noted in the above article. Also, we have four seasons....and yes, many seniors still enjoy skiing, snowshoeing, ice fishing ect. and I can promise one thing...you wont find that in central America...i'm at hotmail . com if you would like more information on great maine properties for sale.
Mike King
It really is a shame that people get down on this who have no sense of adventure, interest in other cultures or (apparently) the capacity to at least try and learn a new language. If you love America, stay here. No one is telling you not to. This is a fun slide show presenting a different option. And clearly, if anyone is seriously considering it they'd have to do more research than just this slide show.
It seems a lot of posters on this thread assume that everyone SHOULD and WANTS to stay in America. I'm sure there are people who would love to live in another country for a few years, to have an adventure before they're too infirm to travel and experience new things.
Personally, I don't understand the myopic view that America is "THE BEST!" and one should stay here, at all costs, living the same day over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
so we stayed in Michigan my ss is $1579.00 mo +$67.00 my wife get $670.00 we had no liabilty
for 15 years, but now have bought a car and are doing just fine house is paid for no credit card debit no revolving accounts no charge cards, I think this is the way to go if you plan it is not too hard,
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