How to Retire Without Money
WHERE TO RETIRE (page 2)
The point we're leading up to is this. It isn't necessary to be rich to enjoy these things. Wealth is not needed to travel and certainly not needed to live abroad, or in the most desirable parts of our own country.It is being done by hundreds of thousands of Americans who have had the determination to get off the treadmill and to lead a full life in retirement from the rat-race. For the amount of money that it costs to buy a new automobile today you could live two or three years in comfort in some of the most beautiful places in the world.
In the body of this book I am going to list a good many of these spots and give detailed information on how much it would cost to get by, or, if you have no income or pension at all, what kind of pleasurable, part time jobs, or small business opportunities are available. However, for right now let me throw a few quick facts at you that might set you back on your heels. That's what we need, so many of us, to be set back on our heels with facts. We need it so that we can be shocked to the point of at last standing up on our feet, showing determination and making a better life for ourselves.
We've all heard of "bargain paradises" where a couple can live for as little as one hundred dollars a month in adequate comfort and even a certain luxury.
They exist! Don't think they don't.
And don't think that what I say is something that applied five years or ten years ago but that in these days of inflation it is no longer so. It is so, now, today!
There are towns, cities, villages and resorts in Mexico, Spain, Austria, Greece, North Africa, Latin America, Portugal and even such exotic places as Turkey, Iraq and the South Sea Islands where living in comfort and even luxury is possible for a pittance.
Did you know that a full time servant will cost you six to eight dollars a month in Southern Spain? That a bottle of champagne in the same country sells for about 60$ in American money?
Did you know that prices are so low in Turkey that you can actually buy a satisfactory three course meal for 10#?
That in Mexico it is possible to rent a mansion for as little as $25 a month?
That in such countries as Ireland and England you can buy a tailored Harris or Donegal tweed sport coat for $25 (it would cost at least $125 in the States).
That you can buy a brand new car in several different European countries for less than a thousand dollars? That in tax free Rhodes, one of the most beautiful of the Greek islands, you can buy a German camera cheaper than in Germany, Swiss watches cheaper than in Switzerland, French luxury perfumes cheaper than in France?
Of course, living abroad isn't always suitable, even for we who have decided to make the break and retire from the way of life of the majority to seek happiness, peace and serenity, rather than the carrot on the end of a stick which so many are chasing. If one has children, there is school to be considered. Or there are sometimes other motivations. However, one doesn't have to go abroad to find bargain paradises. Given a correct frame of mind, and a concentration upon the real values you can find them without the bounds of our own land.