Retire Overseas: 16 good reasons to select an offshore retirement destination

Today's Financial News - Posted April 10, 2008

by Kathleen Peddicord

Baltimore — (TFN): Maybe your parents retired to Florida or Arizona. But you’re thinking bigger. You’re thinking Mexico… or Panama. Maybe the Caribbean… or Uruguay… or France…

Once you expand your horizons to consider beyond U.S. shores, the choices get exciting. You could live the way you’ve always dreamed of living… with the gently lapping Caribbean sea or the crashing Pacific surf for your back yard… with fresh mountain air and long mountain vistas just beyond every window… with all the distractions of the world’s best cities just outside your front door.

If You Could Live Anywhere in the World…Where Would You Live?

I can’t answer the question for you… but I can give you lots of reasons to put it to yourself.

The benefits of relocating, full- or part-time, in retirement or otherwise, to foreign shores are many:

* You could escape U.S. winters.

* You could watch your investments grow tax-free or tax-deferred… and you could cut your tax bill.

* You could increase the quality of your life while you dramatically reduce your cost of living.

* You could live safer.

* You could reinvent yourself. What did you really want to be when you grew up? How have you secretly longed to spend your time? Now you have a chance to clear the slate…to start over. Start a new business. Learn a new language. Study wine, history, architecture…maybe the tango…

But there are 11 more very good reasons why you shouldn’t just dream about retiring overseas… but start investigating your options. Read on…

And make sure you sign up for Kathy’s Overseas Opportunity Letter… after all — it’s free.