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Escape to Belize: Everything You Need to Know to Retire Better, Invest Well, and Enjoy the Good Life for Less 2016
Belize is the Caribbean’s hidden gem. From its azure sea shores to its jungle interior, Belize has great natural beauty—blue water, deserted beaches, and inland retreats where you can explore Mayan ruins, tall waterfalls, rainforests, and rivers. It also offers a lifestyle that is relaxed, gentle…and affordable. It’s also got one of the world’s best residence options and real estate prices you won’t find anywhere else in the Caribbean. Escape to Belize: Everything You Need to Know to Retire Better, Invest Well, and Enjoy the Good Life for Less will take you step-by-step through this stable, English-speaking democracy and give you a head start in enjoying its benefits.
Incomes Abroad – December 2015
Discover the rewards of restoring a villa in Italy—or a colonial property in Mexico—and running it as a B&B or vacation rental. If you’re looking for a more portable overseas incomes, look at how digital nomads are thriving in Playa del Carmen. Great internet and affordable living make it possible If wellness is your game, meet the former New Yorker who runs a yoga retreat center on a Croatian island. And see how another American expat swapped her business in Utah for a life of simplicity in Italy. Plus, how to avoid home-office emergencies when you don’t have your IT guy to fall back on…and the tech gap in emerging countries that creates opportunities for expats.
2015 Fund Your Life Overseas Package
If you dream about a life where you have the freedom to "call the shots"… to pick up and head to a cottage on a sun-dappled beach and "retire" in the tropics… or rent a little getaway in a history-rich colonial town for the winter… or take an apartment for a few months a year in Paris or Buenos Aires… but you need the flexibility that would allow you to leave… and an income that could make it happen… In the right places abroad, you can live well for less. And if you're earning a nice income… you can afford to enjoy yourself.
Escape to Belize: Everything You Need to Know to Retire Better, Invest Well, and Enjoy the Good Life for Less Year 2
Belize is the Caribbean’s hidden gem. From its azure sea shores to its jungle interior, Belize has great natural beauty—blue water, deserted beaches, and inland retreats where you can explore Mayan ruins, tall waterfalls, rainforests, and rivers. It also offers a lifestyle that is relaxed, gentle…and affordable. It’s also got one of the world’s best residence options and real estate prices you won’t find anywhere else in the Caribbean. Escape to Belize: Everything You Need to Know to Retire Better, Invest Well, and Enjoy the Good Life for Less will take you step-by-step through this stable, English-speaking democracy and give you a head start in enjoying its benefits.
Escape to Belize: Everything You Need to Know to Retire Better, Invest Well, and Enjoy the Good Life for Less
Belize is the Caribbean’s hidden gem. From its azure sea shores to its jungle interior, Belize has great natural beauty—blue water, deserted beaches, and inland retreats where you can explore Mayan ruins, tall waterfalls, rainforests, and rivers. It also offers a lifestyle that is relaxed, gentle…and affordable. It’s also got one of the world’s best residence options and real estate prices you won’t find anywhere else in the Caribbean. Escape to Belize: Everything You Need to Know to Retire Better, Invest Well, and Enjoy the Good Life for Less will take you step-by-step through this stable, English-speaking democracy and give you a head start in enjoying its benefits.
Belize Insider Premium Reports
To give you the very best introduction to Belize and a preview of what you'll actually see and experience firsthand in this special country, we videotaped a special presentation given recently by Ann Kuffner, your International Living Belize correspondent. In this presentation, given at the recent International Living Fast-Track Your Retirement Overseas Conference, Ann provides an excellent snapshot to real life in Belize. She explains what you'll love about living there and what you may find to be somewhat challenging. Ann's presentation is full of spectacular photos, too—so you can see exactly what she's talking about. From Ambergris Caye to Placencia, Punta Gorda, the Cayo District, and beyond… This special video presentation will have you scrambling to get your tickets to pay a visit to this country Ann calls home. She knows it well and she wants to share it all… up close and personal… with you.
Swim with Golden Jellyfish, Hidden Guatemala, and much more…
During the second Chinese Opium War, in the 1850s, a penniless teen named Cheong Fatt Tze fled from China to Southeast Asia. There he would make his fortune as a merchant. He became so wealthy that he earned the moniker of “Rockefeller of the East.” Tze owned many fine houses throughout Southeast Asia, but none was as extravagant as the Blue Mansion, on the tropical island of Penang off the coast of Malaysia. It’s a colossal beacon of 19th-century Chinese extravagance
China’s Youtube, the Arctic Oil War and much more…
Every once in a while, an investor with fresh money to invest should pause and ask an important question: “What asset class can I buy that is unquestionably cheap?” The asset class on the bargain-basement table today is emerging markets. Hard to believe, but you can buy most emerging-market stocks today at valuations that are nearly as low as what they reached during the 2008 financial crisis.
The Five Best Up-and-Coming Beach Towns for Retirees (Part One)
You awake to the distant cries of seabirds and the rhythmic lap of the waves against sand. Wearing flip-flops, a shirt, and shorts, you head out for breakfast, before taking the short stroll from the town’s main drag to the beach. Here you can take a relaxing walk by the shore, enjoy a book, or take to the ocean for some surfing, swimming, or scuba diving on a coral reef. As the day fades and the setting sun lights the sky a vivid orange, you retreat to your favorite beach bar to catch up with friends and enjoy a local cocktail or shot of rum beneath the palm fronds. Here, freezing winter mornings and the stress of working life seem a world away…and a lifetime ago. For many folks who call a colder climate home, retreating to a warm beach town is the dream.