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Whether you’re a retiree looking to spend your golden years in luxury…or just someone who wants a sea change…moving overseas might be your best option.
Right now, you can live in places where healthcare is excellent, the weather is great year-round…where the pace of life slows to a rate you can actually enjoy…without stressing over bills, deadlines, commutes and nagging worries.
What’s more, you can achieve this dream for LESS money than it costs you to live in Australia. In fact, in many of these places you can LIVE RICH because your Aussie dollar stretches three times as far.That’s right, you can effectively triple your bank balance…without altering the numbers in it…just by moving to a beautiful paradise overseas.
You’d be immediately wealthy…and you’d be able to spend like it too…on food, travel, clothes, adventure, gifts to loved ones…whatever you want.
Most Australians will never experience this dream…you won’t hear about it from your travel agent or in the mainstream media…and you definitely won’t hear about it from the government…they desperately need your tax dollars.
But you will hear about it from us.
Our global team of expat correspondents give you the low-down on the best destinations to move to…and then show you how to make the transition to your dream life overseas as smooth as possible.
We’ll lay out all the information you need…on visas, how to get the best deal on flights, whether to buy or rent, where the best hospitals are, where to find expat communities…everything…so you can find your perfect fit.
Whether you want to live on rainforest-covered mountains…or step onto the beach from your front porch…or even if you want to experience big-city life in another country…we’ll show you the best, most affordable places to do it.
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