Best Country to Retire

I’ve heard of people moving to other countries to retire early or make the most of their retirement. How is this possible?

Because the cost of living if much less in some other countries.. in some you can move to another country, live in a big house with live in cook & maid for less than you live on here.
Even in this country, if you sell your house in California for $700,000 and move to Mississippi, you could buy a house outright for 200,000 and live off the rest.

Planning to retire in about 15 years.

I don’t need social security for my retirement. I can get it but don’t really need it.

If our country goes toward socialism and heavy taxation, I’m moving out. I love my country but may not agree with the government philosophies in the future.

Where would be a good country to retire in?

Also, am I the only one thinking this?

NEW ZEALAND CHECK IT OUT

My friend is a United States citizen and wants to move to South America when he retires but he doesn’t know where. What do you think?

Argentina!! my friends love Argentina, "little Europe". The flight time is kinda long but he’ll love it.
Anyways, i think he should visit before going so he could make his own decision.

belize is where i am retiring to and it is reasonable yet cheaper then the USA . You can get a Belize passport also by shopwing a net worth of $50,000.00. Taxes are cheap and the mean temperature is like 78 degrees year around . Housing is reasonable away from the ocean and the american and english speaking people there actually are quite huge as engklish is a second language . Politically they are stable and the Virgin Islands , aruba , bahamas are just minutes or hours away by plane .

Impossible to answer a question like that.You might as well ask where is the best place in America to get a hamburger.

It would depend on YOUR specific requirements. Your age, finances,what languages you speak,your physical condition,climate you would be comfortable with etc.

I think if you just add some criteria to your question you will get a better answer(s).

i want to retire somewhere, i just don’t know where. it isn’t feasible to go visit a lot of places so if there was a database or some way to narrow down my search based on my priorities, it would be really helpful.

I have a friend who has retired to Malta (in Europe).

The reasons:
Everyone speaks English there (and as his wife and himself only speak English…)

The weather is beautiful (it isn’t like Canada, where he’s from, or New Zealand, where he checked up on, and he didn’t like Australia, I don’t know why.)

Hospitals are of good quality there (of the standard that we’re used to in developed countries).

The rest of the reasons are minor compared to these 3. They felt that as they get older, they want to be able to communicate with their neighbours, they won’t like the cold much (arthritis) and as they do not have children, it would be good to have hospitals conveniently located.

I hope that you will find a place that you’ll learn to love. Personally, I would like to move to New Zealand one day…