Early Retirement Blog

You see them in newspapers, magazines, and on the internet, articles listing the 10 Best Places to Retire in 2012.  How do they determine the 10 best places to retire?  How seriously should you take these 10 best places to retire articles?  And, how do you pick the best place to retire? The authors of [...]

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Kathleen Peddicord, author of “How to Retire Overseas”, has published an excellent article listing 5 Places to Retire for Under $500 per month.  Read it here.   One of the Americans she cites in her article, manages to retire in Chang Mai Thailand, on only $200 per month. How does he, and the other Americans Kathleen [...]

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The United States is engaged in a global currency war, purposefully devaluing the dollar in an attempt, to devalue it’s foreign owed debt and to stimulate the economy through higher exports.  Caught in the middle of the currency war, are American retirees who will suffer from inflation, and Americans who have chosen an overseas retirement, [...]

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If you hate paying taxes, which is the best state, for retirement?  Alaska.  A report by Kiplinger lists Alaska as the most tax friendly state for retirement.  Alaska has no income tax, no sales tax, and no inheritance tax.  Plus, if you live in Alaska for more than a year, the state gives you money [...]

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Is your RV your retirement home? I’m ignorant when it comes to RV’s, but to me, it seems to make a lot of financial sense to sell your house and use an RV as your retirement home.   Owning an RV is much cheaper than owning a house and more flexible.   No longer like [...]

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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 example, will probably [...]

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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 to help [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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