For years, I had a dream. I’d run a little beach bar somewhere warm. Cold drinks, good stories, and the sound of waves in the background. I’d tend bar a few hours a day, swap tales with travelers and locals, and somehow call it a living. It was a great dream. Letting my retirement pay […]
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There’s a question most people retiring overseas never ask out loud. It isn’t where, and it isn’t how much. It’s who they’re going to have to become. And it’s the one worth answering before you move abroad. The where is the part everyone obsesses over. Mexico or Portugal. Panama or France. Belize or somewhere quieter.
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You know that feeling on Sunday night, when the weekend is gone and Monday is loading? Most people I talk to in their late fifties say that feeling has changed. It used to be dread. Now it’s something quieter. Like the volume’s been turned down on something they thought they’d have figured out by now.
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There’s a version of retirement that lives in your head. Maybe it involves a small apartment in Lisbon, or a house in the south of France, or just six months somewhere warm while the winter does its thing back home. It’s the version where living abroad in retirement stops being a someday idea and starts
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The Part of Retirement No One Prepares You For Most retirement advice focuses on money. How much you need. How long it will last. Where you can stretch it further. All that is certainly important. Retirement simply doesn’t work if the numbers don’t line up. But very little prepares you for what comes after. What
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