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When choosing a place to spend your retirement years, the cost of living is important. But it is only one consideration. The ideal retirement spot is a place where you can live a rich life filled with friends, travel, discovery, physical and intellectual distractions, and opportunities for growth. A super-low cost of living is great, but more important is the quality of life your retirement budget is buying you.

Many of the best options for enjoying an enormously enriched retirement lifestyle on even a very modest budget can be found overseas. Here are the world's 18 top retirement havens, where an interesting, adventure-filled lifestyle is available for a better-than-reasonable cost.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/18-best-pl...12124.html

Post: #2

How can the phils not be in that list ? Its cheap, people are friendly,relatively safe, good climate and people speak English there.

The author of this article is biased towards the americas. 10 of the 18 countries are in the americas in this list

Post: #3

(03-27-2012 06:57 AM)Neil Skywalker Wrote:  How can the phils not be in that list ? Its cheap, people are friendly,relatively safe, good climate and people speak English there.

The author of this article is biased towards the americas. 10 of the 18 countries are in the americas in this list

It's probably a good thing the Phils aren't on here.

I seriously suspect that the retiring US baby boomers are going to ruin Central America. It starts with Panama and Belize, then Nica and CR's Caribbean coast (the west is already tapped out). Then the rest.

Hopefully Colombia's reputation will spare it a few more years.