Shelter Offshore’s Alternative Overseas Retirement Destinations
Published on Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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.
I was recently asked to comment by a journalist on why Britons expatriate, particularly focusing on why we Brits have a passion for France. The answers just rolled off the tongue as they always do, because working daily on an expat resource such as Shelter Offshore means that you have daily dealings with people planning a new life abroad.
Many articles have been written about the perfect retirement hotspot overseas by many different publications. However, in truth each recommendation is based on either the preference of the article’s author for what constitutes a nice place to live in in retirement, or certain assumed criteria about the would-be retirees that the author is writing the article about and for.
The comments made by readers in relation to a 
Following suggestions that Tony Blair, (harbinger of UK’s economic doom), is perhaps to become president of the EU, we feel that it’s probably time to move much further abroad because Europe’s clearly doomed!
Whilst Shelter Offshore as a publication is very much in favour moving to live, work, invest or retire abroad we’re also very well aware that not everyone is in the right place emotionally, financially or even practically speaking to make the move overseas. What’s more, for some people starting a new life abroad could be absolutely the worst thing to do at this point in their lives!
