Category: International Retirement
Retirement Economics I: Understanding International Currency Exchange Rates
When living in the USA, management of your household budget is usually nothing more than the administration of your personal income and expenses. These “internal” budgeting factors are under your personal control and reflect decisions that you make regarding your lifestyle choices. Should you decide [...]
International Lifestyles I: Luxury Living on $3000 a Month
Upon retirement, most pensioners will experience a significant decline in their monthly income. If they have not planned well, this is usually coupled with a significant decline in their retirement lifestyle as well. Depending on your outlook on retirement life and lifestyle choices, this decline [...]
International Lifestyles II: Middle Class Living on $1500 a Month
In the previous article, we examined the ‘rich and famous’ retirement lifestyle for living abroad in the Philippines. The recommended starting budget for that was about $3000 a month in available retirement income. It falls short of ‘living like a king’ but provides a pensioner [...]
International Lifestyles III: Going Native on $500 a Month
In the previous two articles on lifestyles for international living, we looked at adopting a higher (luxury) standard of living and a maintenance (middle class) retirement lifestyle for international living. The third type of expatriate lifestyle option is what I consider a “going native” lifestyle [...]
