Shelter Offshore’s Alternative Overseas Retirement Destinations
Living Abroad Guides » A New Life Abroad Guide
Thu, November 19, 2009 - 8:43 am EET
Having spent two days reviewing the top ten retirement destinations in the world as chosen by Forbes magazine, we thought that there are quite a few ideal hotspots missing from their list. As a result, we’ve decided to put together Shelter Offshore’s alternative overseas retirement destinations list for anyone wondering about where in the world they should go and live when they retire.
The Forbes list did cover some of the evergreen and emerging markets – from Australia to Austria and from Canada to Panama for example - but it missed off some excellent choices such as Cyprus, New Zealand, Argentina and Belize, to name but a handful.
If you’re contemplating moving abroad in retirement and you want to find the perfect paradise on earth for you, our selection may give you a few more suggestions to research. As always we will present the pros and cons of a country as well, so that you can get an initial feel of whether a given nation suits you or not.
Yesterday we looked at the first five destinations that Forbes have determined are the top of the pile when it comes to ideal overseas retirement destinations. The Forbes list has been complied on the back of their own research which has been looked at in relation to leading international surveys from the likes of Mercer about where in the world it’s affordable and safe, attractive and good to live.
Forbes drew on the research of leading institutions and bodies around the world to compile their list of what are theoretically the 10 best places to retire abroad. For example, they used the research and findings from the likes of Mercer and FutureBrand and came up with a ranking system to determine where in the world are safe, welcoming, accessible retirement havens offering a high quality of life.
Not only do Britons want to escape the sinking ship that is the UK, it seems that almost half of all expatriates living in the UK want to leave as well! This country really is not doing too well at the moment is it – some might even suggest it’s doomed and that the rate at which people are planning to leave is akin to those rats scurrying off that sinking ship and abandoning it to its fate!
Did you know that there are over 5,000 international schools in the world? They are in virtually every single nation you can think of – what’s more, as education is a business just like any other, the number of international schools grows each and every year. If you have a teaching qualification, this fact means that there is a huge opportunity out there for you to go and live abroad, work and discover a whole new life for yourself.
