077 Dan Prescher: No U-Hauls Behind Hearses

October 5, 2021
53 min
077 Dan Prescher: No U-Hauls Behind Hearses
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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

16:27
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

16:36
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

16:46
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

16:50
need to go and this is your timeline

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everybody is different okay everybody's

16:56
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

17:06
background and then say what should i do

17:08
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

17:24
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

17:58
american expats living the life right

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now in real time i mean

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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
and

52:00
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52:02
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