Unlocking the Ex-pat Dream: Debunking Myths and 2024's Top Destinations
Big Picture Retirement®
Devin Carroll
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Ever dreamed about retiring to a sunny beach or quaint village in another country? How about living a life of luxury for less than $3,000 per month? In today's episode, we're debunking common myths and discussing the challenges of living abroad, while also highlighting the top destinations to consider moving to in 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | The Big Picture Retirement Show does not provide tax, legal, or financial advice. |
| 0:04.3 | Listeners are encouraged to seek out their own advisors in these areas. |
| 0:10.3 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the Big Picture Retirement Show. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm your co-host, Devin, joined by my other co-host, Jean Ross. |
| 0:17.2 | Cody! |
| 0:25.1 | Yeah. John Roth. John, retiring is an exciting phase of life, and there are some people, look, we, |
| 0:30.4 | for the last couple of weeks around here where we live, we have had horrible weather. |
| 0:35.5 | It's been awful. |
| 0:36.7 | Yes. |
| 0:37.0 | Today's beautiful. Today's nice. |
| 0:38.6 | But it's been horrible. We didn't see the sun for over a week. We had freezing weather to the |
| 0:44.3 | point where a pipe burst in my home. It was just awful. Yeah, you got to take a canoe through |
| 0:49.5 | your living room. Yes. If I would have been gone for another hour, I could have caught fish in there, I think. |
| 0:55.4 | It would have already been that much water. When you're retiring, and if you live in an area |
| 1:00.3 | that's like what we had here for the last week, except it's like that all the time, I can understand |
| 1:05.1 | why you may want a change of scenery. So what we've seen a lot of clients doing is they're |
| 1:10.2 | leaving Portland |
| 1:11.9 | or wherever it is where it's perpetually cloudy and they're moving to Ecuador. They're moving |
| 1:19.2 | to Portugal. They're moving to wherever it is to some of these other countries. Now, for some |
| 1:24.3 | people, that seems really confusing, especially if you didn't travel much. |
| 1:29.0 | You know, if the extent of your travel was to go on a cruise ship, it can be like, okay, how in the |
| 1:34.1 | world would you ever live in one of those countries? But I recently had my eyes open to it some. |
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