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For over 30 years, International Living has searched around the world for retirement destinations that are right for you. We have explored all manner of dream locales, assessing how well they can provide for all your retirement needs—including cost of living, retiree benefits, climate, healthcare, and much more. The result is a comprehensive resource of essential information to help you find your dream retirement overseas.
The Best Places to Retire in 2023
Where can you find the best quality of life in the world…the best places to live…the best climate…the healthiest places to live…the cheapest? Which countries make it into the lists as the perfect destinations for your retirement…and why? We have all the answers.
From bustling beach towns to small fishing communities, stunning stretches of sand to lush rainforests teeming with life, there’s a huge variety of choice on offer for expats. In all of the destinations we speak about, you can enjoy a relaxed lifestyle, with established expat communities, friendly, welcoming natives, good healthcare, and an ideal climate.
Each destination is desirable in its own way, but they all offer something increasingly hard to come by at home: A good quality of life for a reasonable price.
What are you waiting for? Go ahead and dive into our selection of articles to learn more about the best places in the world to retire.
Known as the City of a Thousand Pine Trees, Dalat offers more than enough activities to keep you busy. The town’s 4,921-foot elevation keeps it cool year-round, yet it’s only a six-hour drive or a 50-minute flight to steamy Ho Chi Minh City...
Forty years ago, the island consisted of dirt roads and small beachside warungs, where locals cooked the favorites Nasi Goreng and Babi Guling, but oh-boy, has Bali evolved over the years. Now there are 5-star resorts dotted all over, and amongst the designer stores and local markets, you’ll find upscale restaurants serving the most amazing food.
Waves rolled and crashed along the bay’s rocky slopes. The steady roar would crescendo when the waves hit the breakwater, throwing a fine mist into the air. Despite the thunderous cacophony, the waterfront town of Komiža was peaceful and quiet. It was late January on the Croatian island of Vis, and the tourist season was still a few months away...
Da Nang is modern and clean, safe and friendly, with an ever-expanding population of expats and one of the most majestic beaches you’ll find anywhere. Boldly designed bridges, a riverside promenade, museums, and some of the best (and most affordable) tailor-made clothing you’ll find anywhere add to its charms...
Anybody can do it,” Bonnie Gelley says, gesturing with an outstretched arm toward the expanse of Pacific Ocean that forms the view from her home in Puerto Cayo, Ecuador. A wide, gently curved bay fills the view from the panoramic windows, with tropical vegetation sweeping to the beach in the foreground...
Serendipity led me to Ljubljana. I’d planned to take the overnight ferry from Italy to Croatia, when my friend, Marcela, suggested looping up and over through Slovenia. On the bus from Trieste, I was soon glad that I’d heeded Marcela’s suggestion. The scenery was lovely...
When people refer to Georgia, there’s often confusion about which continent this Caucasus country is on. In terms of geography, Georgia, which is bordered by the Black Sea, Turkey, Armenia, Russia, and Azerbaijan, is in Asia. However culturally, Georgians consider themselves European...
Argentina is famous worldwide not only for its asado (the technique and event of having and attending a barbecue) but also for its wine, making it the ideal country for a red wine, red meat tour. Spanish colonizers brought the first vines in the early 1600s...
Flamboyant, contradictory, and soaked with a defiant natural energy, Cuba beguiles all who visit her. This small country is projected to entertain over 5 million visitors in 2019 alone. In 2017, 600,000 American travelers (without Cuban family ties) visited the nation...
“What about the golf scene?” To an avid golfer this eclipses even healthcare as a need-to-know. While golf can prove to be a prohibitively expensive pastime in North America, in the right places overseas, you can play a round for a lot less than back home...