Book review The World’s Top Retirement Havens –How to Relocate, Retire and Increase your Standards of Living

The World’s Top Retirement Havens –How to Relocate, Retire and Increase your Standards of Living edited by Margaret J. Goldstein approaches the question of how to retire overseas on a country by country basis. The book examines 15 different countries with each country getting its own chapter.

Each country’s chapter has subsections that include: recommended living areas, renting and buying real estate, cost of living, taxes, making the move, and medical care. This book would be good for the person who is already given serious consideration to moving internationally but is now in the process of narrowing down their options. Each chapter alone is probably not enough to be the “ultimate” resource for any one country but gives enough of an overview that the reader can start narrowing down their choices of possible countries.

The Countries covered in 1999 edition are Argentina, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy Mexico, Portugal, Spain, and Thailand. A more recent edition was not found on amazon.com. If a more recent edition was made perhaps they would include Croatia, Guatemela, Nicargua, Panama, and the Phillipines.