Posted on 06/19/2010 7:39:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The average Social Security check is about $1,200. You can receive that payment while living anywhere in the world. In some countries, you can even have your Social Security check direct-deposited into your local bank account. Here are five places where you could retire on your Social Security income alone.
Boquete, Panama. Panama offers super user-friendly options for foreign residency. Resident retirees receive a long list of benefits including discounts on everything from prescription medicines and in-country air travel to closing costs on the purchase of real estate.
Granada, Nicaragua. Granada is ... home to a welcoming community of expat retirees enjoying new lives in this land of lakes and volcanoes. You could live well in Granada on about $900 per month.
Hangzou, China. About $1,000 a month could buy you a comfortable and super-exotic new life in Hangzou.
Morelia, Mexico. You could retire on a budget of about $1,100 per month in this colonial city full of charm and history.
Cuenca, Ecuador. The average monthly Social Security check ($1,200) could also buy you a pleasant new life in Cuenca. The city has an established community of expats who will welcome you and help with your transition.
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I don’t know. There’s a pretty strong gun culture, but I don’t know the current laws.
I admire you for being involved in missionary work but it is more than likely social security will not be around to draw on in about another year or two. Good luck.
Thanks. Yes, I had expected SS would be of benefit to me, but it does look like it's going the way of the dodo. God will provide, so if I don't have SS to live off I suppose it's just another opportunity to build faith.
It's only annoying on the human level because I've paid into that Ponzi scheme my whole life...so on a "justice" scale it's sad the politicians have robbed the money I've paid in.
I live in a small coal-mining patch town here in Western pa. The old mining house next to us is up for sale for $10,000. If someone doesn’t care about appearances, the taxes are REALLY low........
Do you have children/grandchildren here in the US?
Please take Salem off of your list.....please...../s
We adopted two of my wife’s nephews. They are Thai and are now in their forties. Just my immediate family in the US. I have not been back to visit them since 2003. Traveling too much I guess
btt
I use some of their folders and they work quite well.
Greektown has awesome food, valet parking and discreet (but highly effective) security.
“Oh, BTW, the revolution starts next Tuesday. You might want to leave the country”, is worthy of a very big tip.
Beverage. Out. Nose.
I use their envelopes but I always wash them first, Manila is filthy! (hi Eaker) ;D
He has to go every year so I’ll tell him. Thanks.
Most hotels have courtesy van service. If he’s in the city, that would be the best way to go.
When I visit Detroit, I tend to spend more time out at Frankenmuth then in the city...
It would be very practical to live on retirement income in the US if the Feds did not take 15% of your salary as retirement income and blow it on toilet seats. Then they have the nerve to pay you less than 10% of the value of your investment until the day you die and not a second beyond. No inheritance, no face value, nothing. SS is the enemy of retirement security.
I have heard good things about Guatemala.
You can “own property” and will it to family.
You can own guns and even get a concealed carry if you get dual citizenship.
You can build a modern home for $35 a sq ft
Just another way to redistribute America’s wealth and bolster the third world economies. Retirees who leave the country don’t stay and participate in government, so the paid commie activists will have free reign. This type coming from the Obama corrupted media is no surprise because the ‘old folks’ who remember that Constitutional government can only be had when people actively work to keep it, will be out of the way if they can be engineered into believing they should leave.
China should be good for quite some time.
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