Why are some people deciding to retire overseas?
My name is Dan and I left the United States 18+ years ago. Please let me explain why my life overseas has been better and cheaper.
I have been living exotically overseas for 18 years for less than it would cost at home.
What if there was a way, once learned, that might help you live a more adventurous life in paradise overseas for less than you thought possible?
What if you could radically transform the quality of your day-to-day life and potentially even retire years earlier than you thought possible? Would you want to learn if it was possible for you too?
I left the United States in 2007. I have been living in paradise locations all over the world with my feet on the ground in 73 countries.
I have created 1081 YouTube videos showing you my favorite places to retire early for cheap in paradise.
People have watched my retire overseas videos 24,040,519 times and 2632 people have accessed my 292 written reports and online courses that share how I have lived this unique and exciting life.
And it is not just me. I have over 140 interviews with people that have experienced similar results.
Let me explain why my financial disaster helped me become the best person in the world to help you establish a better life overseas.
I am not just talking about this.
This happened to me.
18 years ago, I had a dream to retire early and travel. But my dream crashed and burned in the worldwide 2007 Market crash.
My dream was to spend 9 months of each year retired in the United States and the other 3 months traveling internationally. By 2007, my retirement nest egg and my social security were on course to support this dream if they continued to grow as normal for 10 more years.
All I had to do was make enough money to support myself and let my nest egg grow naturally.
So I left the USA and started working overseas and traveling the world working on my laptop.
There is an old saying. "God laughs when we make plans." On that day, god was laughing.
Disaster struck.
So, while I was overseas, the market crashed in 2007. I watched my retirement nest egg drop substantially. I had no idea when it would recover completely. Luckily I didn't sell anything while the market was down.
I had expected normal appreciation per year while living outside the USA. But my nest egg did the opposite and I had no idea when or if it fully recover. I started to worry that I would need to work until age 70. So I started looking for a backup plan.
My Backup Plan
So, as I traveled the world slowly, I started living in places that were cheaper than the United States.
One day the solution occurred to me. If I retired overseas for 9 months each year in a low cost of living country, instead of the USA, I might still be able to retire early.
Plus, with a cheaper foreign retirement, I would be able to save enough, so I could still travel internationally the other three months of the year.
That is when I started hunting for my favorite place to retire early for cheap overseas for 9 months of each year.
I began to keep track of the cost of living in each place. I began to realize that there were many paradise locations around the world where I could live for half (or less) of what I would need in the USA.
I also realized that I was not hunting for a needle in a haystack. There were literally 20 to 30 places around the world that I would be perfectly happy to call home in retirement. I knew that because I had already spent considerable time in those locations.
I lived all over the world. Sometimes I would live in one place for a few weeks, sometimes for a few months. I almost never bought round-trip tickets. I just kept moving forward slowly through the World buying one way tickets.
I was really having fun. And when I went home to visit the US every other year, something surprising happened.
I just wasn't into the US lifestyle anymore
I loved visiting family and friends in the USA, but I didn't miss the US lifestyle anymore. The USA is all about malls, chain restaurants, and rush hour traffic. I preferred living overseas in more quaint walkable neighborhoods where I didn't need a car at all.
I was lucky to be born in the US. The US passport lets me travel most of the the world without getting tourist visas.
But when I visit the US, I can’t believe how fast I start hemorrhaging money. Money just fly's out of my pockets. Almost everything seems to cost 3 to 4 times as much.
The media was wrong
Growing up in the US, the media had me thinking that the US is safe but the rest of the world is dangerous. After 73 countries, I have not found that to be true.
The opposite has been true in my experience. Wouldn't I know?
People are basically the same all over the world. They work hard and bring home their success and share it with family and friends. They take care of their neighbors and watch out for the young, the weak, and the old. The overwhelming majority of people in every culture are about love, integrity, fairness, and family.
Quality of Life
When I left the US, I assumed that the cheaper places would have a lower quality of life. I assumed that the quality of life would be higher in more expensive places.
But I have found the opposite to be true. Expensive places have traded quality of life for materialism. People in expensive places have to work so much to buy things, they don't have personal time with family or friends.
You will learn that there are parts of the world where life is just simpler. There are places where people drink coffee from a ceramic cup. That is meant partly as a joke. But it turns out to be true.
When you drop out of the rat race, you'll learn that life is more about experiences than rushing off to the next thing.
Does Your Value Rise Overseas?
I often feel invisible when the plane lands in my home country. People don’t seem to notice me. But, as soon as the plane lands overseas, people take an interest in me in a good way.
When I smile, they smile back at me, ear to ear. And when I am single, it is much easier to get a date with someone I am attracted to. I have seen both men and women surprised by new love in their life living overseas.
How Am I different than the other gurus?
It took me 18 years and a few hundred thousand dollars of my own money traveling the World to figure out how all of the pieces of this puzzle fit together nicely. That knowledge is accumulated in my written reports and courses.
That is what is different about me. I haven't spent 18 years in the best retire early for cheap places. I can compare them because I have had my feet on the ground in both places when I start comparing pros and cons of each.
I have lived in many of them for months, some even years. I have created walking tours, day and night tours, and cost of living estimates. I show you by map, text, and video, what it feels like to be in each place. My written reports have videos showing you what I’m talking about.
This consistent comparison through one set of eyes over such a long period of time would help you greatly, don't you think? This will help you narrow the time and energy you spend in your search, yes?
But it is not all fun and games!!!!
There are significant risks to retiring overseas that you must consider.
After millions of views from people watching me traveling around the world on my YouTube channel, showing the various places I could retire overseas and what it would cost me, ... my audience started asking great questions.
What do you do about banking and healthcare? Do you sell your home before moving overseas? How do you find love overseas? What are your favorite countries? Do you ever get food poisoning and how do you avoid it? How do you narrow down what countries to visit? What are the easiest countries to get a visa?
And hundreds of more questions.
So I started writing reports about how I had handled problems personally and how other expats I have met and interviewed overseas have solved those and other problems. I interview expats all over the world finding out how they solve problems in whatever country they live.
There are hundreds of mistakes people made retiring overseas and new ones are discovered constantly. So the eBooks, courses, and interviews we provide are intended to inform you about problems I and others have faced so you can avoid as many mistakes as possible.
Unfortunately, not all risk can not be eliminated from life. But these resources are designed to reduce risks that myself and other expats have already experienced. So when we find about new problems that people have experienced living overseas, we share what we learn so others in the membership community don't have to experience the same risks.
Continually improve
Can I invite you into my world? I have an idea of how we could help each other. The information I share, is created by me in response to questions from people like you, our members.
Where we go, what videos we make, what questions we answer, what reports we write, and what courses we create, come from member's suggestions. So I am asking you to be brutally honest and share your ideas.
This will allow me to continue to improve and to drive the new information in a direction that is most valuable to our existing members and to the future members like you.
Okay, so here is what you get if you join.
Retire Cheap in Paradise
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Location Reports: First, I would like to offer you a membership in my retire cheap reports. Each featured country has location reports that include text and videos of livability factors, cost of living, tours, things to do, restaurants, best areas to stay, transportation, plus other travel tips and secrets. Today, there are already 166 reports of my favorite retire cheap in paradise locations in the world, but this library grows as we add more.

Comparison Reports: This is what makes me different. Since I have spent considerable time in all of these places, I am able to discuss the pros and cons of each country and the best locations within countries. You learn what is different about each place when compared to the others. The comparison reports help you bubble the best ones to the top. Today, there are already 27 comparison reports, but this library grows as we add more.

Planning Reports: After 18 years living outside my home country, I share hundreds of tricks to save you money, time, and aggravation, on a diverse set of topics such as: banking mistakes, minimalism, expat mistakes, spending mistakes, visa mistakes, real estate mistakes, finding love overseas, slow travel tips, travel fitness, safety tips, and making money online. I pick which reports to write next based upon the kinds of questions I get from members. Today, there are already 59 planning reports, but this library grows as we add more.

Slow Travel Reports: After slow traveling the world living in 73 different countries, I share hundreds of tricks and tips to save you money slow traveling the world such as how to rent perfect apartments, how to save on international travels, how to enter countries without roundtrip tickets, how save money traveling on the ground instead of flying, how to pack, etc. Today, there are already 15 slow travel reports, but this library grows as we add more.

The Retire Overseas Course: Once I had published hundreds of reports, one of my members said, "Dan , there are so many reports, I don't know where to start?" So, I created a course of 7 lessons of 30-40 minutes each that teach each stage of the overseas retirement journey, so you know which reports to read and when. This course and the eBooks it shares could easily have saved me thousands of dollars and hundreds of headaches avoiding some of the problems and aggravations I have experienced living overseas for the last 18 years. I am including my Retire Overseas Course for new and existing members.

The Hobby Income Course: For a few years, a bunch of you have said to me, Dan, this all sounds good, but I need more monthly cash flow before I will be able to live my dreams overseas. So, as a way of thanking my existing subscribers for making my dreams come true, I created a course teaching how I have been able to make money online with my favorite hobby (travel). The course teaches you how I turned my favorite hobby into a way to make extra money. The course has over the shoulder videos showing you how I set it all up on VagabondBuddha.com and how I use YouTube to find people interested in learning my hobby. This is not a get rich quick scheme. It took me over 5 years to get where I am today. But I was doing my hobby free, so the possibility of making any money at all was amazing.

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G’day Dan l hope l find both you and Qiang well. I have been working
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thank you so very much for the great effort and work you have go to in
compiling this for no other reason than to impart your knowledge and
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"I have ordered your on line course and consider my purchase an absolute bargain! I paid more than 5 times for what you charge and the course I originally purchased only covered one country. I have found your material to be so much more in depth and you cover a multitude of countries which has saved me time and money as I prepare for my retirement overseas. Your lifetime membership fee will allow me access to your valuable information for years to come should I elect to move to a different country than my original one. You have done the work with your boots on the ground format thus taking the guesswork out of the equation. Not having your course would have been a suicide retirement. Thank you Dan for all you do in your 17 years of physically researching so many countries. Keep up the good work!"
-John
Your business deal is the best one I've ever made in my lifetime. ... I know the cost of travel. You saved me thousands of dollars and years of time.
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P.S.: Please remember your promise to me. I am asking you to share your ideas with me, so I can keep the reports more valuable for you and everyone else. In return for your help, I will freeze you at this price for as long as you remain a member. By helping me help you make your dreams come true, you will be helping me open the same door for others. I will be forever grateful to you.
I look forward to meeting you in person, somewhere in the world, someday. :-)
Thanks,
Dan of Vagabond Buddha
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