7 Asian Towns I'd Retire to Over the Famous Ones on Social Security in 2027

Money, health, visas and the first year - the whole guide: retirement-atlas.page-shelf.com Seven quieter Asian towns set against the famous expat magnets they replace, from Chanthaburi over Pattaya to Davao City over Boracay. For each one you get the rent, a couple's monthly budget, health cover and the flight home, plus who it doesn't suit and Ray's final pick. It's made 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 0:15 No. 7 — Chanthaburi over Pattaya 1:11 No. 6 — Kep over Siem Reap 3:30 No. 5 — Yogyakarta over Ubud 6:04 No. 4 — Kandy over Galle 8:40 No. 3 — Miri over Penang 10:55 No. 2 — Chiang Rai over Chiang Mai 13:18 No. 1 — Davao City over Boracay The Retirement Atlas runs the real numbers on retiring abroad on Social Security or a small pension. That means rent, monthly budgets, visas, health cover and the catches nobody prints. Ray's guides are at retirement-atlas.page-shelf.com #RetireAbroad #RetireInAsia #ExpatRetirement #SocialSecurityAbroad Music: "Water Lily" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photos (Wikimedia Commons): Yogyakarta: Raphael Schön from Vienna, Austria — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yogyakarta,_Indonesia_(5107028775).jpg Yogyakarta: Raphael Schön from Vienna, Austria — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yogyakarta,_Indonesia_(5107622384).jpg Kandy: McKay Savage — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sri_Lanka_-_027_-_Kandy_lake_and_city_centre.jpg Kandy: Charith Gunarathna from Kandy, Sri Lanka — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kandy_Sri_Lanka_(25817983741).jpg Miri: BOK EH — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canada_Hill,_Miri,_Malaysia.jpg Miri: Mx. Granger — CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miri_City_Council_1.jpg Davao City: Bro. Jeffrey Pioquinto, SJ from Dublin, Ireland, Philippines — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_Hall_of_Davao_City,_Philippines_(Bro._Jeffrey_Pioquinto,_SJ)_-_Flickr.jpg