My name is Dan and I am the founder of Vagabond Buddha.   

I will show you how to retire early overseas in paradise for half of what you thought possible in a moment.  But first, let me explain how I came to live internationally, 16 years ago.    

This is the story of how tragedy helped me become an expert finding the best retire cheap in paradise locations around the world.  

I have one idea in mind for you. I want you to start living your dreams a little sooner than you thought possible. If my personal misfortune can help you find your best retirement place in the world that fits within your particular retirement budget, then I will consider Vagabond Buddha a success.

My goal is to help you find your personal paradise and get you living there sooner than you thought possible. 

I believe I am the person with the best chance to help you make your early retirement dreams come true.  

But first, let me tell you how the tragedy of the 2008 worldwide market crash forced me into a corner that helped me figure out my own retirement.  

My life started out fine.  I listened to my parents.  I was as sincere as the next guy.  I went to school.  I did what the world expected of me.  I got decent grades.  I took a decent-paying job.  I tried as hard as the next guy.  I married a nice woman.  I bought a house and started saving for retirement.    

I learned the basics about retirement.  I dreamed of paying off my house and retiring someday.  I dreamed of seeing faraway places in retirement.  I planned on relaxing and enjoying family.  I never touched my retirement nest egg. 

I thought I might even have a little money to leave my family when I died. 

I saved a little of everything I made along the way.  I paid myself first.  Each time I had a little chunk, I invested it. I put it in my 401(k). I bought a house, but I kept saving. I even bought a few real estate investments along the way. 

When I was 45 years old, I sat down and looked at where I was in my life.  

I estimated about how much it would cost me to retire in the US.  I estimated how much it would cost to see the world a few months each year.  

I then estimated the monthly cash flow my investments would provide for my retirement.  With moderate normal growth in my investments, I would have enough for early retirement at age 55.    

I had made it.  I thought I was done.  My planning was successful.  I had made most of the right moves. I had put the investments I needed in place.  

My future was set.  

You see, I had asked myself the question, “What do I want to do for the next 10 years?”

At age 45, I didn’t want to wait another 10 years to start my travels.  And why should I? My investments would grow over the next 10 years whether I was in the USA or anywhere else in the world.  

I thought all I needed to do was support my daily expenses and let my nest egg grow until retirement in about 10 years.   

I started thinking ... I don’t want to do this job for another 10 or 15 years.  I want to see the world now.  I had become bored at work.  I wasn’t even sure I could get myself to work another 10 or 15 years.  

I felt like I had become lazy.  There was very little risk in my life ... no chance to lose or win big.  

My life looked like success on the outside.  That was not how I felt inside. I felt like I had played life safe.  I felt like I had some potential left in me that needed to get out.   

I was spinning my wheels for things I no longer believed in.  I was running hard for a future I wasn't excited about.  I felt like I was a cog in someone else's wheel.  I had slowly become an invisible man. 

They told me I would be happy if I lived the American dream.  But it felt like monthly payments on things I didn't want anymore.  I couldn't see an easy way out.  I was deep in the rat race and I didn't want to run anymore.       

Ten more years of this?  The chains of normal were wrapped tightly around my wrists.  It felt like a slow walk to death.     

But what could I do?  I wanted some adventure.  I needed more passion in my life.  I wanted to feel proud of myself, again.  

One day sitting at my desk the phone rang.  The caller asked, “Would you consider moving to India for 2 years for a job?”  With very little thought, I said "yes."  

What could be more adventurous than India?  And all I needed to do was make enough to pay my daily expenses and leave my retirement nest egg alone while I went on an adventure.  It looked like I finally had my path to freedom.  So, ....

My new job in India included 7 weeks per year of paid holiday. 

That meant I could take every seventh week off.

I would work 6 weeks and then head to the airport.  I would fly somewhere and enjoy the world during the 7th week.  I would fly back and be at my desk 10 days later.   Then I would start counting the weeks again, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6!

It was a dream come true for me.  I visited 22+ countries in 2 years.  

My life was better than any dreams I had ever had.  I was no longer chained to a life I didn’t love.  I was a free man traveling the world.  My job paid a normal American salary, but I was living like a king on what felt like peanuts.

But the dream ended in a nightmare. 

I waited as long as I could, but after 3 years, I wanted to leave India.  I wanted try living in other countries.  I wanted to live in other parts of the world. I didn’t want to move back to the USA yet.  I wasn't ready for normal.

I didn’t want to go back to another soul sucking normal job.  I had tasted freedom and I loved the flavor.  I wanted more of it, not less.  

So in 2010, I asked my boss if I could reduce my hours and pay and begin working remotely on my laptop, part time.  

Luckily, he said yes.  

For the next 12 years, 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 throughout the world.  

Once I realized that I would not have enough money to retire at age 55, I started thinking about a back up plan.

I began to keep track of the cost of living in various parts of the world.  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.  

When I visited family in the USA, I realized that I just wasn't that into the USA lifestyle anymore.  

Most of the retirement affordable parts of the USA are not as charming.  The USA is all about malls and automobiles.  I had fallen in love with charming walkable neighborhoods around the world where you don't need  a car at all.  

That is when I had a new idea.  Instead of retiring in the USA and traveling 3 months of the year, why not retire in a cheap paradise location?  That would allow me to save money for 9 months and travel to expensive places like the USA, Japan, and Europe, the other 3 months of the year.  I should retire internationally and travel from a foreign base!  

I began to realize that I could live in much of the world for much less than it would cost to retire in the USA. 

That is when I decided to begin researching and creating my new retirement plan.  

While I worked remotely on my laptop, I would research and travel to the low cost of living countries with paradise environments.  

Here was the plan.  I would live in each place and estimate how much it would cost to live there.  I would determine a sustainable retirement budget for each place.  

At about the same time, my retirement nest egg was slowly beginning to rebound.  I started to notice that there were places around the world that I could retire on my slowly rebounding retirement assets.   I wouldn't need to wait until my 70s to retire.   My research was showing that my early retirement was coming back to life.  

My new goals was to find my favorite retirement place.  I would live there 9 months of the year and travel the world the other 3 months of the year.    

During the 9 months, I would stay under budget so I could save a little money each month.  That would give me extra money to visit more expensive places when I traveled the other 3 months of the year.  

That would allow me to visit the whole world even after I retired.  

I learned that people are basically the same all over the world. 

They may look a little different, eat different foods, believe in different gods, and create different art, literature and architecture, but when you scratch under the surface, we are all very similar.

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.  

People that should know better often try to separate us by our differences.  The media even try to convince you that where you live is safe but the rest of the world is weird or different.  They may even try to tell you that the world is a dangerous place.

I have found not found that to be the case.  The opposite has been true in my experience.  Wouldn't I know?

When I started traveling, I assumed that the cheaper places would have a lower quality of life.  I assumed that the quality of daily life would be better in more expensive places.  

But what I have found is often just the opposite.  Sure, I have visited cheap places where I would not want to live.  But there are also cheap places that I absolutely love.   

In general, the more expensive places seem to have traded quality of life for visual representations of wealth.   This often seems to equate to less personal time.  Less time to develop meaningful relationships.  Less time to pursue what you love most.

In the expensive world, people are often too busy chasing dreams that require buckets of money.  They keep chasing dreams until they run out of time.  They don't enjoy life long the way.  They are not smelling the flowers along the road as they walk through life.  

You will learn that there are parts of the world where life is just simpler. 

Things are not as rushed. People are not so consumer driven.  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 experience each moment than constantly rushing off to the next thing.

There are places where people just don’t need as much money.  Life is just so much simpler and cheaper. There are places where life is rich and fulfilling on almost any budget.  

There are places where more money could be a disadvantage.  Places were spending more money separates you from a soul warming intimacy that would otherwise have been available to you, if you had lived simply with the locals.  

There are doors that will open to you all over the world just because people are curious about strangers from foreign lands.  People will often be interested in you just because you look different.  

You will see how different cultures value time and life differently.  You will learn how spending time doing whatever you love ... feels.  Whether reading a good book, painting, learning about a new culture, enjoying the local art and music, taking long walks without a destination, learning to dance, playing cards, making local foods, making love, hiking, sleeping in, or whatever you love ... feels ... without watching the clock.  

Life just feels different when you aren’t so worried about time or money.

Sometimes having more money actually separates you from others.  There are connections you could have created if you had integrated with the locals and enjoyed the simple pleasures of a beautiful place.   

Can I invite you into my world?  Good.  I have an idea about how we can help each other.   

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