Category: Lifestyles Abroad
International Lifestyles I: Luxury Living on $3000 a Month
Upon retirement, most pensioners will experience a significant decline in their monthly income. If they have not planned well, this is usually coupled with a significant decline in their retirement lifestyle as well. Depending on your outlook on retirement life and lifestyle choices, this decline [...]
International Lifestyles II: Middle Class Living on $1500 a Month
In the previous article, we examined the ‘rich and famous’ retirement lifestyle for living abroad in the Philippines. The recommended starting budget for that was about $3000 a month in available retirement income. It falls short of ‘living like a king’ but provides a pensioner [...]
International Lifestyles III: Going Native on $500 a Month
In the previous two articles on lifestyles for international living, we looked at adopting a higher (luxury) standard of living and a maintenance (middle class) retirement lifestyle for international living. The third type of expatriate lifestyle option is what I consider a “going native” lifestyle [...]
