Who is the audiobook intended for:

• Baby boomers
• Listeners who may have not yet explored options to retire overseas (retire abroad)
• Listeners who already looked into Canada, Latin America, or Southeast Asia
• Listeners who have not yet reached or thought of the retirement phase
• Listeners’ family members or friends: retired, planning to retire, or considering retirement
• Financial planners
• Real estate professionals
• Travel agents

The audiobook is a short reference guide outlining a possible approach to selecting the foreign country for retirement and preparing for the retirement move.

The key point of the audiobook is that for such an important turn in the retiree’s life, reputable, international, licensed professional help is the only way to make the move to the foreign country’s lifestyle of retiree’s choice.

The other audiobooks of our series will cover separate countries and provide more information.

This audiobook refers to several countries in Europe, a different region with different and diverse history and a geography. The criteria for the target quality of life include a culturally rich and diverse lifestyle, overall comfort, minimum stress, security, good climate, good and affordable local healthcare, availability of local household contractor help, reasonable cost of living with quality food basket monthly aggregated average price, affordability of short-distance international sightseeing travel and cultural entertainment close to the retirement location, and the availability of friendly local networks of people by a variety of interests for general social relationships.

The basic cost of living in these nine countries, to include comfortable housing and local produce for homemade food, is targeted at $1,000-$2,000 per month, with $1,000 being a very realistic possibility.

The healthcare systems in the European countries are diverse and often fundamentally different as compared to the American healthcare.

There are historically established sanatorium resort areas in the European countries, known from pre-Victorian times, that may be of a special interest to the retirees.

Take copies of your prescriptions for the medication, and ask your doctors to write receipts for you to take with you on this trip, to see whether they are accepted in the pharmacies overseas.

Overseas contacts and ground transportation: If your hometown travel agent has no access to information to identify a professional tour guide and a cab company in each one of the locations in your itinerary, try the websites of the US embassies or US consulates in those countries.

If you cannot find guides via these sources, ask the flight attendants on your flight abroad to escort you to a reliable transportation and to see that you safely board an acceptable transport to your hotel.