Where to?

[Req]

What about Belize or Costa Rica?

Costa Rica is getting completely bought out by American interests.  The downside of eco-tourism; when enough tourists come, the ecology flees in their path.  But yeah, you can own all the land you want.

A mid-sized airport is going in at the hidden-and-hard-to-get-to spot called Drake's Bay, where J and I had our honeymoon, and I give the region another year after it goes in before it becomes just another spot for fat americans to yell at the waiters and check their Blackberries.    A real shame, the diving was incredible and the rain forest pretty badass too.

[Jeff N]

What about Belize or Costa Rica?

Bring enough money and you'll have no troubles.

Retirement for me? Highly doubtful. I'm fully involved in my employer's 401K and my own investments, but with my work schedule and the joy I get out of my job I'm retired about a third of the year anyway, and as time goes by it's only gonna get better.

[Bubwheat]

What about Belize or Costa Rica?

Currently, Panama offers the best incentives for Americans wishing to retire there. Dollarized economy, and abundant English spoken, within a coupla hours flight to US, and largely not run over by tourists, and a real estate market not gone crazy.

The restriction on coastal property ownership in Mexico is more like 65 miles, but is easy to get around; trust ownership with the title held by a bank, which you can buy and sell, start a Mexican business and have the company buy the property, or find you a little mamacita, and have her buy it.    

[Ant]

Isn't Estonia the country that all of the labor is outsourced to in the Dilbert cartoons?

thats Elbonia.

[OmegaSix]

What about the Phillipines?   The insurgency is pretty well isolated to the southern islands.   What was the naval base at Subic Bay is now a tourist area.  Olongapo, Subic City, The burbs of Manila...    

I think Australia has some fairly stringent immigration requirements, but as long as you meet them...

Europe is nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

I dunno.   I think the US is more resilient than maybe you are giving it credit for.

[Playinthestreet]

South Island of New Zealand.

[JonS]

Greece is where I would go if I left the US. Living is cheap. Its a fascinating and beautiful place. The climate is... Mediterranean.
I was there for about a month once, and for years, if I had a conversation with anyone about it,I would get homesick for the place.

[scott-sts]

Costa Rica.
Vietnam.
West coast of Mexico.

[sammyseaman]

Michigan  

[mcoyote]

South Island of New Zealand.

Unless I have the cure for cancer tucked under my arm, my understanding is that New Zealand ain't interested, though I agree it's a gawjus place.

[mcoyote]

...I dunno.   I think the US is more resilient than maybe you are giving it credit for.

*shrugs -- maybe, but when I hit 60...65? I might have the 2-4mil I'm projected to need saved in order for the SO and I to survive at an approximation of my current standard of living *and* a former-employer-backed health plan to supplement (*gulp*, having taken care of a recipient for a decade or so) Medicare, but...I have my doubts.

Props to the young'uns then...perhaps there will be opportunities aplenty, but are they somehow going to magically prevent the dollar from inflating at a rough approximation of my paltry 401k/IRA equity earnings? Eh...maybe, but perhaps there will be other nice places to live where we might be happier, just saying.

[toddrod]

Michigan  

   I was gonna say Florida