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7 Places I'd Retire on $2,000 a Month (Not Where Most People Look)

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Published Oct 2, 2026, 1:35 PM · 2w ago

The Retirement Atlas
The Retirement Atlas
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Money, health, visas and the first year - the whole guide: retirement-atlas.page-shelf.com Seven towns in seven countries where a retired couple can live on about $2,000 a month with a retiree visa. For each one you get the rent, the monthly budget, private health cover after 65 and the flight hours home, plus the one place Ray would pick for himself. This is for retirees from the US, Canada and the UK. Ray is a narrative character; his own stories are dramatized. Prices and rules change - check them before you move. 0:00 Intro 0:17 No. 7 — Kampot, Cambodia 1:06 No. 6 — Hua Hin, Thailand 3:26 No. 5 — Pereira, Colombia 5:57 No. 4 — Plovdiv, Bulgaria 8:20 No. 3 — Saranda, Albania 10:35 No. 2 — Cuenca, Ecuador 13:11 No. 1 — Grecia, Costa Rica 15:28 Who should stay home instead 16:23 All seven in one view 17:15 My answer, and yours The Retirement Atlas gives you plain numbers for retiring abroad on Social Security or a small pension. Each video covers real rent, health cover and the trip back to family, so you can judge a place before you sign a lease. Ray's planning material for a move abroad: retirement-atlas.page-shelf.com #RetireAbroad #ExpatRetirement #CostaRicaRetirement #RetireOnSocialSecurity Music: "Tranquility" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photos (Wikimedia Commons): Hua Hin, Thailand: Fotograf / Photographer: Heinrich Damm ( User:Hdamm , Hdamm at de.wikipedia.org — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hua_Hin_hotels_1989.jpg Hua Hin, Thailand: Ian Gratton from Sutton-n-Craven, North Yorkshire, England — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hua_Hin_public_beach_(8288352985).jpg Pereira, Colombia: Estebanhphoto — CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atardecer_en_Pereira.jpg Pereira, Colombia: Castelao — CC BY 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pereira,_Alvite_h%C3%B3rreo_no_casar%C3%ADo.jpg Plovdiv, Bulgaria: Nenko Lazarov — CC BY 2.5 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plovdiv-old-town-imagesfrombulgaria.JPG Plovdiv, Bulgaria: Faces&&Places — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renovated_house_in_plovdiv_old_town.jpg Saranda, Albania: Photo: Gary Bembridge — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIty_of_Saranda_Albania_2016.jpg Cuenca, Ecuador: Alex Proimos — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domes_of_the_New_Cathedral_in_Cuenca,_Ecuador.jpg Cuenca, Ecuador: Guido Alvarez — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuenca_Ecuador_Church_2001.jpg
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