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How To Retire Without Money
By Bob Belmont
CHAPTER 2 WHERE TO RETIRE
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Is it hard for you to believe that there are places in the
world, even within the boundaries of our own country, where it
is possible to live quite well on what rent alone would come
to in New York City? We'll come to this and prove it in
following pages. Can you conceive of living in a villa on the
sea with a full time servant, or possibly even two, all your
meals and entertainment paid for, on what it costs to maintain
an automobile in Los Angeles? This too we'll prove.
One of the great advantages of being very wealthy is the
mobility that becomes yours. Where the average American spends
his life in one city, and probably even in one neighborhood,
only getting away for quick vacations or occasional business
trips of one sort or another, the wealthy are continually on
the move. They have both the money and the leisure time to
indulge themselves in travel.
Thus a wealthy family can spend their winters in Miami or Palm
Beach. But when the Floridian summer is upon them and the heat
becomes oppressive, they leave the South and take off for the
beauties of New England in the Spring. If Old Sol burns too
hot, this year, then it's off to Canada on a fishing trip, or
up into the mountains for the cooler resorts. If this routine
begins to pall, there is always the Caribbean in the winter
months, a cruise to Haiti or Trinidad. Or there is Europe with
all its resorts, both winter and summer.
It leads to a fuller life, a more complete life, a more
educational one.
Or, if your family of wealth doesn't particularly like travel
but rather wishes to settle down, it can choose the beauty
spots of the
world, California, Florida, the Southwest, including Arizona,
New Mexico and parts of Texas. Often they leave the States
completely and establish homes on the French Riviera, the
Spanish Costa del Sol, or in Paris, Rome or London if cultural
pursuits are of interest.
The point we're leading up to is this. It isn't necessary to
be rich to enjoy these things.
Wealth is not needed to travel and certainly not needed to
live abroad, or in the most desirable parts of our own
country.
It is being done by hundreds of thousands of Americans who
have had the determination to get off the treadmill and to
lead a full life in retirement from the rat-race. For the
amount of money that it costs to buy a new automobile today
you could live two or three years in comfort in some of the
most beautiful places in the world.
In the body of this book I am going to list a good many of
these spots and give detailed information on how much it would
cost to get by, or, if you have no income or pension at all,
what kind of pleasurable, part time jobs, or small business
opportunities are available. However, for right now let me
throw a few quick facts at you that might set you back on your
heels. That's what we need, so many of us, to be set back on
our heels with facts. We need it so that we can be shocked to
the point of at last standing up on our feet, showing
determination and making a better life for ourselves.
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