Retirement Blog

Green Your Retirement Climate
Picking the right climate for your retirement, could save you a lot of green, and help reduce global warming. Retiring to a temperate climate, eliminates much of your household heating and cooling needs, and it’s costly expense. Moving from one extreme to another, from Maine to Arizona for […]

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If you will be retiring in a few years, and you plan to move to a new location upon retirement, you should be taking retirement vacations. You probably already have an idea of the “type” of place you want to retire to, the beach, city, mountains, lake, or overseas. Here are some strategies […]

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If you are thinking about retiring abroad, you really need to do your research, and I have found a website that you may find helpful. It is a blog directory for expatriates. This website has links to expatriate blogs, people who live in and write about their foreign country experiences, from all over the world.
From […]

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Do you like Sushi?
Hundreds of thousands of Americans, no one knows the exact number, have chosen to retire overseas. Some are happily retired abroad - others not so happy. Is an overseas retirement for you? Take this quiz and find out if retiring abroad will work for you.
1) I like Sushi, Thai, Mexican, […]

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I’ve come across a few American expatriates, who are sharing their experiences of living and retiring overseas, with regular dispatches via their blogs. Their stories are almost always, interesting, illuminating, and instructional. Today I found one blog author, that exemplifies the spirit of Green Retirement like no other, Joe Bageant in Belize.
Joe Bageant lives and […]

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Hundreds of thousands? A few million? How many Americans choose to retire overseas? Who knows? The U.S. Census Bureau does not keep track of the number of Americans living overseas, so an exact figure, is impossible to ascertain. But the number is large. I know. Because not only did I consider it, retiring overseas, […]

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Why would anyone want to choose to retire in a city? The classical conception of retirement is, get old, quit your job, find some place peaceful and quiet, then die. It may be an appealing idea to some, and the conventional path for many, but it’s not for everyone. Retirement is an opportunity for […]

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Where to retire, after where to invest, is perhaps the biggest concern of people planning their retirement. This topic is so large, that one blog post can’t hope to answer the question, thus the category “Places to Retire” has been created to deal with the issue.
But we can start by answering the question - “What is […]

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