About

Welcome to Retire Abroad, the online magazine for retiring and living abroad. The magazine features articles on the best regions, places (cities) and countries for an overseas retirement. Articles on international living lifestyles, major news and trends related to a retirement abroad, a resource section on world geography, and the editor’s personal life experiences living abroad are also featured.

The editor of Retire Abroad is GraySpirit, a retired professor and dean who is now retired and living abroad in the Philippines. GraySpirit’s career also includes time as a harvester on a pineapple plantation, a veterinarian assistant, a soils laboratory research assistant, Peace Corps volunteer, and helicopter turbine engine repairman. These jobs have taken GraySpirit to many places around the world ranging from the Arctic to the tropical rainforests in the Amazon region.

Today, in retirement, GraySpirit may be facing his most difficult job of his life – raising an ‘adopted’ family in the Philippines – among the challenges of shabu drug gangs, separatist rebel kidnappings and bombings, tropical diseases, and the oppression of poverty. Nevertheless, despite the daunting challenges, a retirement abroad has in many respects been a new beginning in life – an opportunity to find personal meaning and purpose, and an opportunity to help create a new world and life for his family.

If you are considering a retirement abroad, please use this website as a starting point for your investigations. The world is too big and varied to be captured in a single website. A range of links to other resources are provided to help you expand your research.

Contrary to popular thought, retirement does not have to mean an end to a life or career. As GraySpirit’s clan attests – retirement can be the beginning of a wonderful opportunity to bring a little more hope and light into the world.