077 Dan Prescher: No U-Hauls Behind Hearses

IN THIS EPISODE, THE ANNUITY MAN AND DAN PRESCHER:
- Planning for travelling internationally
- Travelling internationally as a lifestyle change
- Minimalism and happiness
- Joining communities abroad
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Research is the key, start by ruthlessly profiling yourself and ask yourself what you can do without and what you can’t do without.
- If you plan to live abroad, you gotta do it from the heart, it has to be a lifestyle choice. Otherwise you’d just be an economic refugee.
- Once you keep things compact and minimal, you can start focusing on what really matters. Happiness is in the people you know and the things you do, not in what you have.
- Community comes with the package, it cannot be avoided.
"If you could move tomorrow to a place where it costs you half as much to live, you’ve doubled the value of your resources" — Dan Prescher
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welcome to fun with annuities i'm your
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host stan the annuity man america's
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annuity agent licensed in all 50 states
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boy am i excited with for today's guest
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his name is dan prescher and he is
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part of an organization magazine
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actually i call him an organization
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because they do a lot
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in the space of
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seniors and retirees moving abroad
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their website is international living
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dot com which i'll have on my website
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obviously there'll be a permanent page
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for dan on that so you can go and look
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at his stuff but let me give you a
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little bit of background about him he's
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a graduate of the university of nebraska
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omaha and the university of iowa side
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note my wife of 33 years is from
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rushville nebraska which is as i say if
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you know it's not the end of the world
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but you can see it from there um
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since starting international living in
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2001 um he and his wife suzanne have
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lived and worked in seven locations
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throughout the world mexico panama
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nicaragua ecuador
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etc and have explored dozens of more
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countries like brazil and argentina
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colombia belize costa rica honduras
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ireland france thailand i can keep going
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but you get what i'm what i'm talking
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about um i think right now and i'll
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verify this with him that he they're
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permanent they're they're
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residents of mexico at this at this
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point of the podcast taping so look at
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the date
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um
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but he
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they also provide a lot of webinars and
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really good information on their site i
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was on their site last night it is one
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of the best websites i've seen
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international living.com if you have
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ever thought about
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visiting going living trying it out
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internationally this is your this is the
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place to go um they've written two books
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one's called live richer spin less and
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the other is the international living
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guide to retiring overseas on a budget
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those can be purchased on their site or
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in amazon etc
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um without further ado
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let me introduce fellow guitar player
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dan pressure hey dan thanks for joining
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me
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my pleasure stan good to see you man i'm
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looking forward to seeing your guitar
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collection
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yeah i mean you know there's a bunch of
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us frustrated guitar players people
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always say well stan where do you play
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like in a room alone
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that's where i play in the basement in
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the basement um
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people
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people are probably my listeners on this
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uh podcast are like wait a minute we
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talk about money kinda yeah we're
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talking about money and lifestyle and
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just as a a premise to what we're
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getting ready to jump into
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my
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clients and the people that follow this
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podcast
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they know a couple of my sayings one of
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them is there's no u-hauls behind
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hearses
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and that means let's live for the day
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you can't take it with you and if
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covet's done one thing for all of us out
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here it's made us realize the fragility
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of life and that you might want to live
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today like you're dying tomorrow i don't
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want to be you know brutally
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fatal but everyone knows what i'm
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talking about and if you have a bucket
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list i'm going to tell you to pull it
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out because because we're going to talk
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about it today dan and stan are going to
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talk about your bucket list and if you
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don't have one get out a pen
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so with that
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um
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give us kind of an overview of
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international living
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and how it all kind of works from the
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standpoint of people retiring getting
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ready to retire already retired sure
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sure
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i i want to make sure that everybody
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knows susan and i started with
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international limiting in 2001 but it
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was gone 20 years before that so it's
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this this that's right it's 40 years
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it's been over years that's right that's
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right well you know dan
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i'm just going to call you the go-to
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person because for my people
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you're going to be the go-to person
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they're going to say i want to talk to
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stan for annuities and dan for
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international travel so it's the stan
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and dan show and you're you're
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absolutely right it's a lifestyle thing
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and but lifestyle as you know lifestyle
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and finance are in intimately connected
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you can't really tease the two apart
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sure and 40 years ago
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uh international living's premise was if
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you were living on a fixed income if you
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were getting social security or pension
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of some kind and you wanted to make it
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go as far as possible you'd move to some
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place where your cost of living was
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significantly less than where you were
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living then and
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it turns out that there are dozens and
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dozens of places around the world that
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are absolutely beautiful exotic
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uh
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we think of them as paradises beach
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mountains you name it where you can live
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for significantly less than you live
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uh in north america and what
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we've started to kind of call that
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lifestyle arbitrage you know
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if i love you to have a certain amount
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of money each month and you could move
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tomorrow to a place where it costs you
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half as much to live you've doubled the
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value of your resources
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so
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that's really just the premise that's
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what that's what we've been doing for
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the last 40 years showing people where
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those places are
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how to get to them how to choose the one
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that's right for you how to do that
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whole thing successfully
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um one of the things that hit me when i
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was doing some research on what you guys
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do
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is
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you don't have to go all in
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you can test the waters
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um you can test it in a myriad of ways
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one of the ways that i think is
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fantastic
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is dan um is is typically the mc and
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host of their they do some webinars
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um and some seminars etc that will kind
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of get you acclimated to what the the
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premise of moving overseas but i think
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um you would be the first one to say
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don't go all in don't don't fall off the
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cliff as i call don't be a jimmy cliff
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you know tiptoe into it do some research
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explain that process of
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hey let's look at it let's me and the
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wife me and the spouse look at this as
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an option
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and then make our decision how do they
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how do my clients and listeners tiptoe
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into that
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the international living website as you
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mentioned is a great place to start it's
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broad and it's deep so you can you can
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start doing a lot of research there and
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research is really the key
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you want to start by ruthlessly
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profiling yourself and deciding what
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you're looking for what you can do
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without what you can't do without
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because honestly moving to another
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country another culture another
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financial system is not for everybody
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you have to have a little
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um
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taste for adventure uh a little urge for
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challenges because it you will find a
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different challenge every day when you
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move to a country that's using a
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different currency and a different
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language
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but
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that we found is what keeps a lot of the
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people we know that move abroad young
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facing those challenges staying light on
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your feet you you have to be engaged all
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the time
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and being engaged with
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a beach in panama or a mountaintop in
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ecuador or
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uh you know
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a valley a mountain valley in costa rica
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that's good engagement that sure that
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freshens you up it keeps you young but
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you have to ask yourself honestly is
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that what you want
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uh for a lot of people the devil they
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know is much more comfortable for them
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and they they don't want to move away
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from that but
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man if you ruthlessly profile yourself
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say you know i would like to live at
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about 5000 feet in a place where i don't
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need heating or air conditioning where
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there's public transportation so i don't
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need to own a car where the health care
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system the public health care system is
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good enough to meet my needs
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and there's an expat community that i
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can interface with those are the boxes
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that i need to take off what countries
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match those
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requirements
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and then go there and see how you feel
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like you say you don't have to sell the
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farm and and jump off the cliff
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go there and stay for a month two months
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six months as long as you comfortably
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can to find out what it's really like to
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live there you'll get a gut feeling
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about it and that's what you got to go
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by one of the things that you said a
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couple of things that i wrote down that
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you said that i think was
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just very good
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is it's not a pass fail thing you know
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to go either part-time or full-time and
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you can become what you called
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um in an interview i saw with you a
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serial relocator
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which i thought was fantastic
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because
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people that manage money and that have
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done a good job checking the boxes and
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getting to a point where they're going
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to live the lifestyle that they want to
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live
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it's hard for them to do this type of
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hard pivot
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um
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because they have the grandchildren and
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i believe i heard an interview with you
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and your wife talking about you know you
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come back and see the grandchildren etc
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i think it's important for the listeners
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to understand we're not talking about
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hey let's move from iowa and we're going
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to move to ecuador and that's it no
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you can
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you can instead of going on the vacation
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going on an extended vacation to see if
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that's right for you
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and say listen we're going to live
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next year six months in ecuador and next
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year six months in panama etc do most
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people do that or do people go all in
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and then go to panama fall in love with
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it and become a citizen
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it's a very mixed bag it runs the gamut
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my wife and i right now have a charming
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seven-year-old daughter here in the
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united states we were visiting her when
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covet hit and that's why we're still
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here we're in we're actually in omaha
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nebraska i'm talking it from here that's
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god's country baby we can't wait
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to get back offshore because winter's
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coming on yes and omaha nebraska is the
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most wonderful place on earth to live
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six weeks out of the year it's not a
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garden spot in the in the winter there's
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no doubt right right
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but
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you're right
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we're part-timers now because we're
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we're we want to be a part of our
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granddaughter's life so
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we'll go to
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uh ecuador for three months come back
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we'll go to merida where we're
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registered as a permanent residents
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permanent mexican residents for six
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months and come back that's perfectly
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possible to do you know more about the
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financial side of that than i do because
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you got to have your ducks in a row you
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have to have your finances arranged in
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such a way that you have that
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flexibility and you're not breaking
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financial ties or trying to re-establish
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financial ties every time you move
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that's perfectly possible to do it's not
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uh it's not difficult it just takes some
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special skills and some special
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considerations you need a little bit of
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specialized knowledge to do it but if
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you have that knowledge man you can
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you can live abroad part-time you can
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live abroad full-time you can be a
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serial relocator live full time in
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ecuador then move to panama then move to
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mexico
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we know people who have two or three
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places around the globe and just rotate
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them all year long depending on the
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season depending on how they feel and
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those other two places can be making you
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money while you're not living there you
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know you can get some return on
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investment depending on how you want to
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play your interest real estate uh your
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your rentals
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it's a mixed bag and and you can put
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together a really nice lifestyle that
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doesn't cost you a lot of money
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and i'm excited because
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internationalliving.com is a 40-year
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resource
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they just didn't start this overnight so
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people have always asked me in the past
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i've never had a good answer until today
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which is
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i'm thinking about x because i knew
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someone who went over to this country
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and i never had a place to say okay
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go here because on your site which i one
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of the things i found really interesting
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was you have a calculator that you can
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put in and then put in the country and
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figure out cost of living because most
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people say well that sounds great stan
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the annuity man
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but you know what's panama cost what's
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ecuador cost what's thailand cost
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you have a calculator and i'm big on
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calculators because if you go to my site
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at the annuityman.com you can run quotes
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and you can see what income streams are
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going to be
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in u.s dollars you have the calculator
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for international living
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that involves money which i think is
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fantastic because there's really no
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guesswork in other words how far will my
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money go
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you have provided that real time 24 7.
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which is great speak a little bit about
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the calculator that you have on your
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site at internationalliving.com
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it it is a a broad and fairly blunt tool
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because as you know no matter where you
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live on the globe you can spend as much
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or as little as you want it depends on
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the lifestyle that you want
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these are general um
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cost of living figures that we get from
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our correspondents who are living in
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these countries from the people that we
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talk to
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information that we gather off
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government lists things like that
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this is a lot of the information that we
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use in our global retirement index as
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well
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we just crunch as many numbers as we can
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and you come up with kind of a general
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good quality cost of living where you're
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not living in a multi-million dollar
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seaside place or a shack down in the
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valley you're living a great lifestyle
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you're having good medical care uh
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unfortunately most of these places have
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uh
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very good national healthcare systems
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that people can take advantage of
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and
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you can find out
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which of these countries meets your
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needs depending on how much you're
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retiring on if you're getting
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uh if you and your spouse are getting
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2400 bucks a month from a social
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security uh payment
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what country matches
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the
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that
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that financial need for you and pushes
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the rest of your buttons gives you the
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weather that you want uh lets you settle
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in easily takes care of your health care
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needs all of that ties together it's not
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just about money
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what we don't want people to do is
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consider themselves economic refugees
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and just realize you know
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we can't retire in the united states or
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canada anymore it's been
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our our ideal retirement we've been
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priced out of it in the united states
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and canada we need to go someplace where
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it's really cheap to live
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and you can certainly do that but if
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it's a place that you don't like if it's
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a place that you don't get a good
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feeling about
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you're just an economic refugee and
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you've made a mistake we see we see a
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lot of people who regret making that
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move just for financial reasons it's got
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to be from the heart too it's got to be
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from the heart it's got to be a
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lifestyle play always tell people you
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know as i said there's no u-hauls behind
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herself i really believe that should be
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the international living saying
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with the logo on the t-shirt but um
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you know i do have every single year a
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handful of clients that that make this
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move
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um and for a lot of reasons a lot of
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them just don't want to watch cable news
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anymore and i'm saying that's a pretty
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drastic way to do it but instead of just
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turning the tv off but i understand it a
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lot of people are tired of everything
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that's going on here and they want to
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chat you know i always tell people
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retirement is chapter two
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of your life so what do you want chapter
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two to look like what i want this
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podcast to do is put a little seed in
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everyone's brain of hey
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this is a possibility and now i have a
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resource at internationalliving.com that
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i can go to and trust and i have a
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contact there
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that can be my sherpa
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to get me there tell me about the
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consulting services or how far do you
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help a person
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uh with the or do you have people that
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if someone called up or you contacted
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listen i'm really
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you know it's like they call me they say
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i i want to i want an annuity i want a
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lifetime income stream standing annuity
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man tell me the best one to get because
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i trust that you're going to tell the
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truth
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same question to you i want to possibly
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test living overseas for a few months or
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six months what does that process look
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like
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we don't as far as i know uh have any
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paid concerns services that will take
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you in hand and tell you
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this is what you have to do this is how
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much money you need this is where you
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need to go and this is your timeline
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everybody is different okay everybody's
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situation is different we
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at the conferences they email we always
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get the people who say
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they'll give you their entire financial
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background and then say what should i do
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with my money that's somebody else's job
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yeah that's my that's that's my job uh
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that's what you do so in essence and
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people that are familiar let me
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interrupt real quick dan people that
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that work with me is we provide all the
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information and then let you make the
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decision on your terms in your time
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frame based upon all that information
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that we provide it sounds like that's
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what's happening at international living
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correct exactly exactly okay we we try
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to provide that firsthand information
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from people who are doing it right now
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from people who have already done it you
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can contact those people and
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i i want to go ahead and broaden the
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research universe for this whole
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international living thing because now
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with facebook with instagram with
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bulletin boards
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you can talk to people in any community
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any place on earth who are north
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american expats living the life right
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now in real time i mean
18:02
i could get on here now and get on a
18:04
facebook group from merida mexico and
18:06
ask where i can find
18:08
um
18:10
the right size phillips screws
18:12
right you know if i if i want to do a
18:14
do-it-yourself project somebody there
18:16
knows and they will answer me
18:20
you can get that kind of information
18:22
instantaneously lifestyle information
18:24
people are happy to share that kind of
18:26
stuff
18:27
we
18:28
we like to call that and get the most
18:31
dependable information that we can the
18:33
most actionable information that we can
18:35
people who have been doing it for a long
18:37
time and point people in the right
18:38
direction but the decision
18:41
to pull the trigger and actually make
18:43
that move is somebody's personal
18:44
decision
18:45
like you say
18:47
there's really no failure i mean if you
18:49
if you move to a beautiful country for
18:51
six months and decide it's not for you
18:52
and move back yeah you're the wiser for
18:55
it i mean you've you have more life
18:57
experience you've had a happy six months
18:59
you know more than you did before you
19:01
really can't fail at this thing you can
19:04
you can approach it in the wrong way
19:06
you can limit your chances of doing it
19:08
successfully for the rest of your life
19:10
if that's what you want to do
19:12
but hey if you want to if you want to
19:14
retrench like susan and i if you decide
19:16
that uh you want to give kotakachi a try
19:19
and then you want to live in san miguel
19:20
de allende for a while you know what
19:22
panama city doesn't look too bad you can
19:25
do that it's that affordable to live in
19:28
some of these places where you're not
19:29
sacrificing a lot of money to make a
19:31
move
19:32
and i always tell people take shots in
19:33
life take shots you might not you're not
19:35
you're not going to make them all but
19:36
you're going to make some and taking the
19:38
shot as part of the process one of the
19:40
things your your wife said suzanne that
19:42
i i saw in a previous interview in my
19:44
research
19:46
she's talking about moving out of your
19:48
comfort zone which can be a good thing
19:50
but part of that moving out of your
19:52
comfort zone that people feel a little
19:54
bit hesitant about
19:55
is the safety and stability of the
19:58
countries and and some of the
19:59
misinformation that's out there one of
20:01
the things she said that i thought was
20:03
very poignant was
20:05
you know international living is not
20:06
going to point you to a place that they
20:08
wouldn't have their mother live in
20:10
and i thought that was very good can you
20:12
expound upon
20:14
that
20:14
comfort zone safety stability that for a
20:18
lot of people and most of my clients
20:20
they can afford to do this
20:22
okay the question is can we should we
20:26
um will we
20:27
you know um
20:29
what i'm hoping this is going to do is
20:32
is people list this podcast and go you
20:34
know what
20:35
you know what to your spouse this might
20:37
be something we look at we might not do
20:40
but we look at let's talk about safety
20:42
and stability of these kind of these
20:43
countries
20:45
that's one of the big benefits of trying
20:48
a place out first getting your boots on
20:50
the ground before you bust a permanent
20:51
move right um
20:54
let's just take the example of quito my
20:57
when my wife and i first started working
20:58
for international living we moved to
21:00
quito ecuador we were there
21:02
there for a couple of years and i sent a
21:05
picture back to my mom of the place
21:07
where we were living and she said what's
21:09
with the barbed wire and barred windows
21:12
and i didn't even notice it i'd you know
21:14
i'd been on the ground for a couple of
21:15
months this just became part of the
21:17
scenery yeah and i asked a local friend
21:20
about it and he said you know here
21:23
we don't
21:24
uh call the police if something happens
21:27
we don't leave our doors open we don't
21:28
leave our windows open we don't wait for
21:30
somebody to break in and call the police
21:32
we keep our stuff secure right because
21:34
here
21:35
if you don't take care of your stuff if
21:37
people see that you aren't taking care
21:39
of your stuff
21:42
it's not really a crime to come and get
21:43
it
21:44
and that's just one of the cultural
21:46
things that we had to get used to you
21:48
know got it if you have a lot of stuff
21:50
in a country where there is poverty and
21:52
there's a lot of poverty around the
21:54
world
21:55
um not taking care of your stuff is an
21:57
invitation for somebody to come and
21:59
liberate it from you so it it will get
22:02
made better use of but there's a part of
22:04
me that that's thinking to myself
22:06
it's kind of a forced minimalization
22:08
and a direction and you know we live in
22:11
a materialistic world
22:13
and it's it's one of those things where
22:14
you don't you know i know this is hard
22:15
for me and you to grasp but you don't
22:17
need 20 guitars you need one
22:20
um and that's always a hard concept for
22:22
me to grasp it um we were talking about
22:25
this just yesterday about about
22:27
minimizing a little bit yeah we all need
22:29
to do that everyone's nodding their head
22:31
in unison like oh my gosh we've
22:33
accumulated so much i think probably one
22:35
of the things uh going overseas is you
22:38
realize you don't need as much
22:40
life doesn't demand you to have that
22:43
susan and i
22:44
reached a point living in ecuador up in
22:47
kodakachi in the mountains there's a
22:48
little leather crafting village of about
22:50
7 000 people
22:52
and there's a nice little expat
22:53
community there we lived in about 900
22:56
square feet in a beautiful condo that
22:58
overlooked the mountain valley
23:00
everything we owned
23:02
was within 20 feet of us and if we
23:04
needed to bug out we could put
23:07
everything that was valuable to us in
23:09
two suitcases and go we could get on a
23:11
plane in 90 minutes
23:13
and go anywhere we wanted to do and that
23:15
felt good didn't it seriously didn't
23:17
that feel good to have to have it that
23:19
compact from a life standpoint and i'm
23:22
assuming because you have it that
23:24
compact it makes you focus on things
23:26
that actually matter
23:28
like the people that you meet the
23:29
experiences that you have not the stuff
23:32
that you get
23:33
uh happiness depends on um
23:37
your relationships and the people that
23:38
you know and the activities that you do
23:40
not on the
23:41
i won't show you all the crap that's
23:42
filed around here off camera but that's
23:45
not where your happiness is your
23:47
happiness is in your situation the
23:48
people you know and the things you do
23:51
and
23:53
the great side benefit of living like
23:56
that in ecuador was that we could save
23:59
money
24:00
i mean
24:02
every payday we were working from there
24:03
we were working remotely we can do our
24:05
job from anywhere on the planet we're
24:07
lucky enough
24:08
to have an online job where we can we
24:11
can fulfill our work obligations with an
24:13
internet connection
24:15
we were paying so little overhead almost
24:17
nothing for for
24:19
uh utilities and taxes nothing for
24:22
transportation
24:24
uh we didn't have to buy anything it was
24:26
cheap to eat out we weren't acquiring
24:29
stuff
24:30
we saved money
24:32
every month and we did that for years
24:35
that was
24:36
i missed that um
24:38
as much as i love the united states i'm
24:40
gonna digress a little bit here sure
24:42
it's
24:43
it is
24:44
the most convenient place on the planet
24:46
you can get anything you want anytime
24:49
you want with a phone call or the click
24:51
of a mouse button the rest of the world
24:53
isn't necessarily like that there are
24:55
some things you have to do without and
24:56
that's okay that's okay
24:59
that's absolutely okay that's absolutely
25:01
okay and the the expats that have the
25:03
best time
25:04
find a way
25:06
to make their own half and half if they
25:08
can't find the brand of half and half in
25:10
the freezer they want they find a way to
25:12
roast their own red peppers if they
25:13
can't find exactly the can of roasted
25:16
red peppers they want on the shelf
25:17
amongst the 12 other brands
25:21
those are the things that expats get
25:22
good at doing and it adds to your
25:24
quality of life i think i mean it makes
25:26
you
25:27
it makes you a um it makes you a more
25:30
engaged person with your surroundings
25:32
and i think that most people listening
25:34
and watching to this because you know
25:36
we're on all major podcast platforms and
25:38
we're only we have a youtube channel as
25:40
well that people are watching to see us
25:42
interact and see you know how good
25:44
looking we are dan the dan and stancha
25:46
but um
25:48
exactly
25:49
but i think most people are going to be
25:51
looking at international living.com and
25:53
going there and considering retirement
25:56
travel instead of
25:58
um just looking at good retirement
26:00
travel instead of retirement relocation
26:03
even though retirement relocation
26:05
is a sub is a offshoot of retirement
26:08
travel right but in essence what we're
26:10
really talking about is redefining
26:12
retirement
26:14
right because that's absolutely right
26:16
you you talked about retirement being
26:18
the second stage of life well there now
26:20
there's another stage after that
26:22
and a lot of people just aren't retiring
26:24
anymore they're retrying their lives i
26:26
mean very good if you if you
26:29
are in the workforce and you get to
26:33
58 62 to that point
26:37
used to be i mean
26:39
several decades ago by that time you
26:40
were used up your job may have just
26:43
taken such a toll on you that all you
26:44
could do was sit in your rocker that's
26:47
what i feel like now dad i feel all used
26:49
up
26:50
you know
26:52
that's not the case anymore i mean
26:53
people now
26:55
are looking at retrying something do you
26:57
do you want to write that book do you
26:59
want to open the art gallery do you want
27:01
to run the bnb that you always want it
27:03
to run do you
27:04
do you um do you want to have a
27:06
considered service where you move to a
27:08
place
27:09
get into the expat community and help
27:12
other people come and do the same thing
27:14
there are lots of people doing that
27:16
do you want to get an online job and
27:19
move to czechoslovakia or ireland and
27:22
and work from there and keep making
27:24
money but do it online you want to
27:26
parlay your life experience into a
27:28
consulting business right
27:30
all of that is possible now so
27:32
retirement has has changed for everybody
27:35
and
27:36
finding out what it is
27:38
what retirement's going to be for you
27:39
and where you want to do it is going to
27:41
be a big step in life now it's not and
27:43
it's not going to be the last step
27:46
it's just another one and for the
27:47
listeners and viewers i'll just tell you
27:49
a couple of stories and i've been in the
27:50
financial services business for three
27:51
decades but every single year i'll have
27:53
calls from people that
27:55
will say um boy i wish i would have done
27:58
this um you know you know me and the
28:00
wife planned and planned and planned i
28:01
worked and worked and worked and now i'm
28:02
not feeling good and now i can't do it
28:05
and and i'm hoping this podcast will be
28:08
impetus for people to say
28:10
you know what i need to go do this
28:13
and it's not my nature it's not who i am
28:15
it's not the the planning box checker
28:17
plotter that i've been
28:19
but you know what let's go try this
28:22
let's go
28:23
let's let's travel and then see if it
28:25
works and if it works we might stay
28:27
longer and i would tell people to say
28:30
instead of taking the two-week trip
28:32
start with the two-week trip and then
28:33
take the month trip and then stay for
28:35
three months and then stay for six
28:36
months and try things
28:39
um because at the time of this taping
28:41
covet is wreaking havoc
28:43
and as on a side note i've had two
28:45
personal friends dive covered recently
28:48
that are in their late 50s early 60s and
28:50
i will guarantee you
28:53
that you know the the there was no
28:55
bucket list check off for them and i'm
28:57
encouraging the reason i wanted to have
28:58
you on is not because we always talk
29:00
about money and money shouldn't be the
29:01
center of anyone's universe but money is
29:04
a tool to live better
29:05
and um you know you're talking about the
29:08
benefits of
29:10
traveling overseas the possibility of
29:12
living overseas longer than you thought
29:14
and maybe even retiring overseas
29:17
but the key word is trying and starting
29:21
the process what do you think are the
29:23
biggest hurdles for people to make that
29:26
leap and how would you
29:27
um
29:28
recommend them overcoming those hurdles
29:31
there's a
29:33
there is a tendency for people to
29:36
fantasize about retiring or
29:39
living part-time
29:40
in places where they've had great
29:41
vacations
29:43
and there's nothing wrong with that but
29:44
a vacation is a vacation and actually
29:46
living there is completely different
29:53
we think it's really important to live
29:55
in a place or stay in a place long
29:57
enough
29:58
to realize what it's like after the
30:00
vacation is over you know if you want to
30:02
live in ambergris key in belize
30:05
i've learned to dive there it's one of
30:07
my favorite places on the planet
30:11
you have to stay there long enough to
30:12
find out what it's like to get your
30:14
utilities hooked up to get your phone
30:16
service done to to pay your internet
30:18
bill
30:19
to get mail brought on the island to get
30:22
the things that you need and do that
30:24
during off season when the hurricanes
30:27
are coming when the bugs are bad right
30:29
every place on earth has an off season
30:32
and if you want to really try out a
30:34
place and find out if it's right for you
30:36
go there during the off season and stay
30:38
there for a month
30:40
and try to get your business done there
30:42
you know try to try to pay some bills
30:43
from there try to
30:45
try to access your money from there try
30:47
to start a bank account there and you
30:50
refer to that you refer to that as
30:52
experiment and experience yeah which i
30:55
think is important and i think actually
30:58
to keep our brains alive and clicking
31:01
and firing on the cylinders we need to
31:03
do different things we need to get out
31:06
of the daily plotting of life of what we
31:08
do
31:09
um there's a horrific stat out there i
31:11
think is horrific most people never
31:13
leave the county they were born in right
31:15
you know but the people listening to
31:17
this podcast and watching this youtube
31:19
channel
31:20
they have the option of doing something
31:22
different with their life um one of the
31:25
things that you covered in a previous
31:28
article i read was about
31:30
assisted living because a lot of my
31:32
clients are in that age group they're
31:34
they're they're thinking long-term care
31:37
they don't want to be a burden on their
31:38
children and their and their families
31:40
can you address assisted living
31:43
situations in other countries because i
31:45
think that's a box that for my box
31:47
checking people out there that they're
31:48
going to want to say hey what happens if
31:50
i get sick what's the assisted living
31:52
like over there can you address that
31:54
sure
31:55
susan
31:57
susan and i have spent most of our time
31:59
in latin america
32:00
from
32:01
as far down as argentina to all the way
32:04
up into mexico
32:05
and
32:06
in latin american countries
32:09
families take care of their elders
32:12
that's just a cultural thing grandma
32:14
lives at home
32:15
and ages in place
32:18
if if the family can't take care of her
32:20
anymore they bring people in to do that
32:23
and lat in most of latin america it is
32:26
so affordable to get qualified
32:28
in-home care that a lot of expats do the
32:31
same thing they age in place in san
32:34
miguel de allende or ajijic south of
32:36
guadalajara or puerto vallarta wherever
32:39
they are
32:40
by bringing in qualified in-home health
32:43
care
32:44
aides
32:45
it's incredibly affordable much more
32:47
affordable than trying to do the same
32:48
thing in the united states
32:50
now mexico realizes that that is a good
32:54
business model there are now established
32:58
tertiary and end-of-life care facilities
33:02
in northern mexico all along that border
33:04
so people can come back and forth visit
33:06
their relatives and take advantage of
33:08
the cost savings of going to mexico to
33:10
do this
33:12
there's also an entire
33:14
lobbying group that is trying to get
33:17
medicare
33:19
to qualify their payments abroad so that
33:22
if you if you want to take advantage of
33:24
medicare in panama or in costa rica or
33:27
in mexico you can do that right now you
33:30
can't do that
33:31
um
33:33
we
33:34
don't recommend giving up medicare and
33:35
moving away from it and and just cutting
33:38
that tie
33:40
it's probably the best insurance deal in
33:42
the united states and staying in the
33:44
system we think
33:46
can be crucially important later on
33:50
half the people who reach the age where
33:52
they are looking at the end of their
33:54
lives will stay where they are and get
33:56
in-home care or or use the facilities
33:59
where they are the other half will go
34:01
back to familiar territory they'll
34:03
they'll move back to their hometown
34:04
they'll move back to their families
34:06
absolutely nothing wrong with that
34:08
that's that's a valuable strategy
34:11
what you're saying is there's options
34:13
overseas absolutely absolutely
34:16
there are options everywhere it just
34:18
depends on
34:20
what your needs are and as you say those
34:24
needs will change
34:25
i mean
34:26
five years from now susan and i may be
34:28
talking an entirely different strategy
34:30
our health care needs may change our
34:32
family needs may change um
34:35
so nothing about this is written in
34:37
stone which i think is one of the
34:40
one of the things that keeps us
34:43
i keep using the word
34:45
on our toes but vibrant you
34:48
[Music]
34:50
these challenges and overcoming them
34:53
feels good it's it's a good thing to do
34:55
it's a good way to engage your brain
34:58
totally agree with that and i think
35:00
that's that's one of the benefits if you
35:01
wanted to just write down the benefits
35:03
of that is it it keeps your brain moving
35:05
um
35:07
interesting question that hit my head as
35:08
you were talking about that was just
35:11
how do how are people treated overseas
35:15
being a united states citizen coming
35:17
overseas are we the evil
35:19
rich people that are coming over there
35:21
to to or are you treated well and with
35:24
respect
35:27
every expat
35:29
i know
35:31
let me rephrase that every place that we
35:33
have been an expat susan and i have
35:35
lived in
35:36
seven different communities in four
35:38
different countries over the last 20
35:39
years
35:40
every place we've gone the locals know
35:42
the difference between
35:44
us citizens and the us government
35:47
because they know the difference between
35:48
very well put yeah they know the
35:50
difference between themselves and their
35:53
government and what they do and every
35:55
place will give an individual the
35:57
benefit of the doubt
35:59
you know they'll they'll they'll see
36:01
what kind of person you are what your
36:02
personality is like how you're adapting
36:05
how you behave in the community and
36:07
judge you according to that they won't
36:09
judge you according to the last um
36:13
the last invasion that you're that your
36:16
government undertook or you know it's
36:18
the last that's a good thing that was
36:19
instituted or the last visa program that
36:22
they cancelled by they'll judge you
36:25
they'll judge you by who you are so it's
36:26
human being human beings are you know we
36:29
always we're in a stage of this country
36:32
where it seems like we're all divided
36:35
i don't totally agree with that because
36:36
when people are in
36:38
trouble you know people are people i
36:41
don't care what country you're and i'm
36:42
assuming that if you're nice to people
36:44
in ecuador or wherever they're going to
36:47
be nice back right if you treat people
36:49
with respect they're going to treat you
36:50
back with respect and um and they're
36:53
probably understanding whether
36:55
involuntary or voluntary that
36:57
you're bringing something to the table
36:59
that's positive for their community
37:02
am i right about that that's uh that's
37:05
the reason a lot of these places have uh
37:07
pension auto programs retiree programs
37:10
that north americans can qualify for
37:13
because
37:15
i mean in in much of the rest of the
37:17
world
37:18
getting 2 500 or 3 000 a month from
37:21
social security or a pension
37:24
are king's wages you know absolutely
37:26
that's that's a lot of money and a lot
37:28
of these countries are happy to let you
37:30
qualify for residency there to have that
37:33
money come into their country and be
37:35
spent in their community and that's a
37:37
big decision you know changing you know
37:39
changing who you are as an american
37:41
citizen but i'm i'm assuming i respect
37:43
those decisions that are made but i do
37:45
encourage people to look at this
37:48
possibility as um
37:52
don't make them don't make the decision
37:53
on money
37:55
i need people to stop making decisions
37:57
just on money
37:58
i need people to make decisions on their
38:00
lifestyle
38:01
the fact that they're not going to be
38:03
here forever
38:04
there's some form of a legacy
38:07
that not that you want to promote
38:08
yourself but you want to leave a good
38:10
mark
38:12
on society or wherever you end up i'm
38:14
just hoping that international living
38:16
will be the resource for people to start
38:18
trying things
38:20
if they've never been out of the country
38:22
then start with start with a small step
38:26
but i think this is should be an eye
38:28
opener eye opener for everybody
38:30
not saying that the united states is
38:32
good or bad or things are going to go to
38:34
hell in a hand basket no we're just
38:36
strong we're a strong country it's a
38:37
great country
38:39
but um
38:40
i think we can all benefit from going
38:42
somewhere else i'm
38:44
i am so fortunate to be an american
38:46
citizen and i just want to make a quick
38:49
note when you get a residence visa in
38:52
another country you don't give up your
38:53
passport we don't we don't know any
38:57
expats who have renounced their u.s
38:59
citizenship
39:00
you can there's there's a way to do it
39:03
you have to be really sure that you
39:04
don't want to be a u.s citizen
39:07
but i would never renounce my u.s
39:09
citizenship i love the united states
39:11
it's
39:12
one of the most fabulous countries on
39:14
earth
39:15
but there are dozens of reasons why you
39:18
might want to live outside of it i mean
39:20
it's the same reason if you wanted to
39:22
retire you'd move from new york to
39:23
florida we'll just look a little farther
39:26
south look at merida look at panama city
39:28
look at look at keto ecuador the option
39:31
is there just think a little outside the
39:33
box it doesn't mean you're unpatriotic
39:35
doesn't mean you don't like the united
39:37
states it just means you can live
39:38
cheaper and better someplace else on
39:40
what you've got with your decades of
39:42
experience in this
39:45
subculture can i call it that it's a
39:47
subculture
39:48
um
39:49
have you found
39:51
that people
39:53
seem to get healthier both physically
39:55
and mentally when they do this do you
39:57
see a correlation or have you not seen
40:00
or can you not make that broad of a
40:02
brush statement
40:04
i can absolutely
40:05
say it i know people personally who said
40:08
that their blood pressure went down 20
40:10
points the month after they moved
40:14
the
40:15
the challenges that you meet as an expat
40:18
aren't the same as the stressors you
40:20
have in the united states
40:22
being attached to cable tv all the time
40:25
uh
40:26
uh having to have political discussions
40:28
with your friends and family that's well
40:30
said say that again the challenges you
40:33
have what did you say again say that
40:34
again the challenges that you have as an
40:36
expat are just life challenges they're
40:39
you you need a little ingenuity and they
40:41
can be solved
40:43
the stress that you live in in a in
40:47
a polarized highly politicized
40:49
environment are different
40:51
you can't really do anything about those
40:53
you just kind of have to plow through it
40:56
and deal with it and i mean
40:58
if your brother and your father are on
41:00
one side of the political fence and your
41:02
sister and your mother are on the other
41:03
side and they can't resolve those
41:06
differences you're stuck in the middle
41:08
that's tense
41:10
i much preferred to watch this
41:13
from
41:14
panama city
41:16
i much prefer to engage in those
41:19
conversations from from keto ecuador the
41:22
pressure was off and you know well the
41:25
the one thing that's hitting you when
41:26
you're saying this is
41:28
there's a lot of people that reach the
41:29
retirement stage that are a
41:31
personalities that's been successful
41:32
that's built up some money etc and
41:35
what's gotten them and us and me there
41:37
is a competitive nature that started way
41:40
back and in his com comp competition and
41:43
you're you know we're in a united states
41:45
is a winning society you're a winner or
41:48
you're not or you're competing or you're
41:50
not
41:52
address
41:53
the move or the or the visitation or the
41:56
weeks and months spent overseas and how
41:58
that lack of competition
42:01
changes you
42:04
there is
42:06
there's an unfortunate tendency of a lot
42:08
of north americans that we have noticed
42:11
especially people who haven't traveled
42:12
before to assume that the rest of the
42:14
world is just u.s light
42:17
is just you know america at half the
42:20
cost
42:21
and that everybody outside the united
42:23
states wants to be an american
42:26
and that's not true
42:28
it takes some people a long time
42:32
uh in a place to realize that telling
42:35
people that's not the way we did it back
42:37
home
42:38
doesn't get you anywhere
42:41
that's like the new yorkers that come to
42:42
florida and say back in new york we used
42:44
to do that i'm like well then move the
42:46
heck back there yeah no offense to new
42:48
yorkers what are you doing here
42:51
there's plenty of competition abroad
42:52
there's plenty of competition in these
42:54
other places but
42:56
the these places are predicated on
42:58
family and community and church first
43:01
the vast majority of places that susan
43:03
and i have lived
43:04
those are the priorities it's not job
43:08
then
43:09
uh community then family it's family
43:12
community church work wow and it's
43:15
probably the way it should be that's the
43:17
way it should be right yeah if work gets
43:19
in the way of family
43:20
your your uh gardener your plumber may
43:23
not show up if his niece is having a
43:26
quinceanera uh 20 miles away in the next
43:28
village up he might not show up for work
43:31
and when he shows up next week
43:34
he'll ask him why and he'll say i you
43:37
know my niece was having a concealer oh
43:39
congratulations
43:41
some people can't do that some people
43:45
will demand that they can buy your
43:48
loyalty with money and that's not the
43:50
way a lot of the rest of the world works
43:52
we're used to buying loyalty with money
43:54
and we're used to buying service with
43:55
money
43:56
and that won't work with a lot of latin
43:58
americans that we know just one one of
44:00
the things that money can't buy away
44:04
um is is a
44:06
is kind of a tragedy that's happening
44:08
across the country and it's happening a
44:09
lot with retirees and that tragedy is
44:12
loneliness
44:14
and feeling like no one's around kids
44:16
have moved out um you know you're
44:19
they're moved away and you're lonely and
44:22
money can't solve money can't buy
44:23
happiness that everyone knows that money
44:26
can't buy
44:27
and get rid of loneliness either have
44:29
you seen people go and try this
44:32
experiment
44:33
and
44:34
not feel lonely or they go over there
44:36
and feel lonely still i know you can't
44:38
make a broad brush statement but have
44:39
you seen
44:41
real examples of how
44:43
this has actually helped people
44:45
yeah yeah well
44:47
let's throw covid and
44:49
social networking in there as well
44:51
factors that are just pushing people
44:53
apart now
44:56
one of the big reasons for a lot of
44:57
people moving abroad in the first place
44:59
is the expat community those guys are
45:02
self-selected to think the way you do
45:05
and to help you out and to form
45:07
a core group
45:09
where you lift each other up
45:13
a lot of people are instantly adopted
45:15
into the families of the locals that
45:17
they deal with closely because when you
45:19
move to a place you'll deal with a local
45:22
shopkeeper you'll get a house cleaner
45:23
because
45:25
i never want to clean my own house again
45:26
and there are people who will do that
45:28
for me and do it well
45:31
and i get to know their families i get
45:33
to know their kids
45:36
you get involved in these people's lives
45:38
and it's a built-in feeling of community
45:41
you can't escape it really
45:44
you can try to move to a place
45:47
where you a gated
45:49
community where you don't have anything
45:50
to do with the locals where you're just
45:52
an insular group with a lot of north
45:54
americans you never learn the local
45:55
language and never interface with the
45:58
with the local bureaucracy
46:00
those are places that i hesitate to go
46:03
and people i hesitate to talk to because
46:04
they're not nearly as happy as the
46:06
people who are out in the community
46:09
knowing their neighbors right now
46:12
we
46:13
we take that baggage with us wherever we
46:15
go you know um but if you want to be
46:18
part of a community and you move to
46:19
ecuador or you move to panama or you
46:22
move to a little village in mexico you
46:24
will get community it comes with the
46:26
package there's there's no avoiding it
46:29
what are some of the best value places
46:32
overseas or the best places and i know
46:34
that's that's uh hard to answer
46:37
but get give people kind of a feel for
46:39
the countries that are
46:42
on the radar for someone like you and
46:44
for for you know as a consultant semi
46:48
consultant on this what would you where
46:50
would the countries be that you would
46:51
say hey you might want to look at these
46:54
you're right it's different for
46:56
everybody and i'm i'm looking right now
46:58
at the 2021 global retirement index
47:01
which is as on the website
47:03
there are
47:06
nine categories from
47:08
housing to retiree benefits to how easy
47:11
it is to get a visa
47:13
to fitting in and entertaining to the
47:15
climate to health care
47:18
picking which
47:19
three or four of those are most
47:21
important to you and finding the top
47:23
rated ones
47:24
is
47:25
an excellent way to go about doing the
47:27
initial research to find out where to go
47:29
but
47:30
this year costa rica is at the top of
47:31
the list it's always in the top five
47:33
okay it's easy to move to it's low cost
47:37
they don't have a standing army they
47:39
have about 90 percent literacy got it
47:42
most of the country is national park i
47:44
mean if if you just want a beautiful
47:47
yeah low-key place to live costa rica is
47:50
it panama has been dealing with north
47:51
americans for a hundred years because of
47:53
the panama canal
47:55
and that is an a financial engine that
47:57
means panama is always in good financial
48:00
shape if that's what you want
48:02
go to panama
48:03
mexico there are probably a million or
48:06
more
48:07
u.s expats in mexico living full or
48:10
part-time
48:11
because it's familiar it's easy to get
48:13
to
48:14
most of the places
48:16
are
48:17
absolutely safe i mean if you're
48:20
if you're not producing transporting or
48:22
dealing drugs
48:23
uh there are places in mexico that are
48:26
safer than omaha nebraska
48:28
steeper than safer than montana
48:31
we've lived in several of them
48:33
merida is one i'll just throw that out
48:36
that points out the importance of
48:39
picking the place in a particular
48:40
country where you want to go
48:42
it's difficult to rate an entire country
48:45
it's difficult to rate an entire city
48:47
like mexico city you can't do that here
48:50
exactly i mean
48:51
every single city has a bad neighborhood
48:54
you don't want to go into and the police
48:55
don't drive through i mean every single
48:57
one but i would encourage people to
49:00
international living dot com just like
49:01
it's spelled no space international
49:03
living dot com
49:04
he just was reading from that site i
49:06
mean that is your go-to place if you
49:08
don't do anything else if you don't do
49:10
anything else other than listen to this
49:11
go to their site bookmark it and just
49:14
keep going back and forth put it in your
49:17
brain that you might want to try these
49:19
these this idea it's an idea it's a
49:22
retirement idea people come to me and
49:24
they might say i hate all annuities stan
49:26
and i'm like wait a minute you already
49:28
own one it's called social security so
49:30
open your mind a little bit if you need
49:32
lifetime income that's what you need
49:34
same thing well i've heard that mexico
49:36
and those places are you know i saw on
49:38
the news that it's dangerous hold on
49:40
stop
49:41
go and learn and do your research
49:44
and find out if it might be right for
49:47
you
49:47
last question this is probably i saved
49:49
the best for last damn okay
49:52
and this is this is a yes or no question
49:55
if i move overseas after they stand the
49:58
annuity men juggernaut is purchased by
50:01
the big company
50:02
will i become a better guitar player
50:05
yes
50:07
really
50:08
absolutely
50:12
you're talking about importance now that
50:14
now you're selling me if you're so
50:16
you're because i certainly haven't
50:17
become a better guitar player in the
50:19
united states so i've got to try
50:21
something
50:22
right
50:23
i moved to kotakachi ecuador i talked
50:25
about that little town of 7 000 people
50:28
yeah i met three of the best musicians
50:31
north american expats i've ever met in
50:33
my life i got in their band
50:37
i found a couple of cafes that said you
50:39
know if you want 90 minutes just to do a
50:41
solo
50:42
uh come on and do it i had to get my
50:44
chops together you had to work up a song
50:46
list i had to i had to learn these tunes
50:49
you will find opportunities to become a
50:51
better guitar player a better singer a
50:53
better band member a better writer
50:56
you'll find it
50:57
you'll see
50:58
i think that's that's a really
51:00
interesting way to end it
51:02
is is just again it's lifestyle
51:05
and the key word is life and the key is
51:08
that is your life and what i want to
51:10
encourage people to do in this podcast i
51:12
think has done it is now you have a
51:14
resource to start looking at it so where
51:17
do i start stan
51:19
international living dot com is where
51:21
you start um dan's picture and face and
51:24
suzanne's on there you can you can
51:26
content contact them directly if you
51:28
have a specific um question we're going
51:31
to have dan
51:33
yeah we're going to have his information
51:34
permanently on the site because i think
51:37
it's important for people when they're
51:39
talking about retirement it's not just
51:40
about income it's not just about
51:42
protecting your principal and it's not
51:45
about just about that it's also about
51:48
how you decide to live your life in
51:49
chapter two of
51:51
your life dan i'm going to tell you
51:53
something i really appreciate you being
51:55
here this has been absolutely fun for me
51:58
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52:00
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52:02
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