If you had $20,000 a month to retire on -- you could live lavishly pretty much anywhere on the planet. But we're interested in the places where you can live that lifestyle on one-tenth the budget"
Places where you can have a maid clean for you"hire a gardener" wake up to a view"have great health care, eat well, enjoy the finer things in life -- for less than $2,000 a month. You may be surprised how many there are" Months ago, our far-flung editors and in-country advisers began collecting all the data and details that inform our annual Retirement Index. To compile it, we evaluate and rank countries around the world according to eight crucial categories: real estate, special retirement benefits, cost of living, ease of integration, entertainment and amenities, health care, retirement infrastructure and climate. This is a qualitative assessment, based on real-world data... |