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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
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Description
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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Details
- Published
- Oct 2, 2026, 1:35 PM
- Length
- 18:02 (1,082 s)
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- Long-form
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- People & Blogs
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- EN
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- HD
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