“We moved from St. Louis to Nha Trang at the start of 2014, and we were there for almost a year,” says Esther Bedik. “Then we joined the Peace Corps and lived for a year and a half in Morocco. When that ended, we had to decide where we wanted to live. We had visited Da Nang while we were in Nha Trang...
Back in the 1980s, Belize was the last frontier. There was only one partially paved road in the entire country. If you found yourself in La Democracia, west of Belize City and just short of the Cayo District, things could be basic. No meat, no milk, no gasoline for miles. It’s an unlikely place and time to find three entrepreneurial women...
New Yorker Eddie Ryan could arguably be named one of Puerto Viejo’s original expats. “I came to Costa Rica for the first time 34 years ago, with a friend who was visiting family. During that first trip, someone mentioned the Caribbean coast to me,” he remembers. “It wasn’t a tourist destination at the time...
Smiles are infectious. But for Bob and Sue McMahon, who moved to Costa Rica from Arizona in July 2013, their smiles then were not as vibrant as they are today. Sue, a professor with master’s degrees in sports medicine and physical therapy, was teaching at a medical university. Bob was the general contractor for a construction company.
For years, I dreamed of moving abroad to live more simply, with less stress and a less expensive lifestyle. Somewhere I could enjoy my retirement (although not quite yet) and not worry about crunching numbers. My journey to Costa Rica started in 2011, on a scuba-diving trip to Guanacaste, north of San José.
I Like Doing Anything That Keeps Me Active and Healthy” Name: Jim Hurt Age: 71 From: California Living in: Tamarindo, Costa Rica The surfing culture in the U.S. exploded in 1962, when the mass success of the Gidget movies perfectly collided with California’s “coolness.” That was also the year native Californian Jim Hurt began surfing, at age 14
Northern California native Steven Elam says, “I was first attracted to Nha Trang because of the ease of living and the availability of recreation. Living here on a retirement budget is really good. I don’t make a lot of money, but I am able to save nearly half my income and still have a great lifestyle.”
John Pasnau releases the stern line on his 36-foot cabin cruiser, Fish Trap, and settles into one of the deck chairs. Chatting with his friends while his captain expertly motors the craft out of the harbor and into the warm, turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea, John is serving as host and guide for the upcoming day on the water.
Byron and Kelly Harker had traveled inter-nationally for many years. But one country ticked all the boxes as a retirement destination for the Canadian couple. “We’ve always loved France,” says Kelly, “and when we had a chance to move to Europe in...
Derek Howell had long pondered options for his retirement and couldn't help feeling that he'd missed out by not traveling overseas. At first he dismissed his globetrotting urges as options only for the wealthy...until he began searching for flights around the world...