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About Retire Abroad
Retire Abroad is an online magazine designed to assist anyone who is planning to retire abroad or is currently living abroad. It includes detailed country profiles, best places to retire, guides to living abroad and retirement, and the personal journal of its expatriate editor.
How To Use Retire Abroad
Currently, the magazine is broken down into several major sections. These are Best Places to Retire (regions or specific destinations), Country Profiles (detailed look at individual countries), Living Abroad Guides (guides to living overseas), My Journey (my experiences in living abroad) and News (general news relating to overseas retirement).
Retire Abroad is a useful start in looking for an overseas retirement destination. However, it should only be considered a start in your search. The world is constantly changing and Retire Abroad tries to paint a broad picture of living overseas.
For more detailed perspectives on living abroad, please take a look at the Useful Resources section and visit the blogs that I’ve listed. These blogs provide a more detailed look at living in specific countries and are written by expatriates or locals from those countries who live in those countries.
Although I try to do as much research for each article as possible, you might discover an error or oversight. Please feel free to leave a comment. Every few months I will revise, update, or correct articles and will take your comments into consideration when I do my rewrites.
About the Editor
The editor of this publication is GraySpirit, a retired educator and administrator in higher education. Grayspirit grew up in Hawaii, but has had opportunities to travel the world, and has taken that up as one of his retirement activities. He is currently living in the Philippines which he uses as a home base to travel throughout Asia.
Grayspirit had humble beginnings and worked his way through college picking pineapples, working in a pineapple cannery, cleaning animal cages as a veterinary assistant, living in a hippie commune briefly, and working in a soil testing laboratory. After majoring in agriculture in college, he joined the Peace Corps and realized that farming sucked big time, but he discovered that he loved to travel.
Peace Corps duty was in the Llanos of Colombia and GraySpirit lived in a humble hut with a thatched roof shared with a colony of bats. Every morning, macaws and monkeys greeted his day. Oddly enough, following the Peace Corps, GraySpirit enlisted in the Army and served several years in the Alaskan Arctic repairing helicopter engines.
After performing public service, GraySpirit returned to graduate school and ended up being a professor of geography. Later, he became a dean at the college. After an exciting career (haha) as an academic, he decided to retire early and return to the adventurous lifestyle that characterized his youth.
His home is currently in Cebu City, in the Philippines. And GraySpirit hopes to begin a new career in blogging and photography.
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Disclosures: Retire Abroad Magazine displays ads on a regular basis, but does not advocate, support, or endorse any product displayed by sponsors or advertisers. Retire Abroad Magazine further does not acknowledge any claims or opinions presented by sponsors or advertisers as being truthful.
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