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Best Places

For over 30 years, International Living has searched around the world for retirement destinations that are right for you. We have explored all manner of dream locales, assessing how well they can provide for all your retirement needs—including cost of living, retiree benefits, climate, healthcare, and much more. The result is a comprehensive resource of essential information to help you find your dream retirement overseas.

The Best Places to Retire in 2022

Where can you find the best quality of life in the world…the best places to live…the best climate…the healthiest places to live…the cheapest? Which countries make it into the lists as the perfect destinations for your retirement…and why? We have all the answers.

From bustling beach towns to small fishing communities, stunning stretches of sand to lush rainforests teeming with life, there’s a huge variety of choice on offer for expats. In all of the destinations we speak about, you can enjoy a relaxed lifestyle, with established expat communities, friendly, welcoming natives, good healthcare, and an ideal climate.

Each destination is desirable in its own way, but they all offer something increasingly hard to come by at home: A good quality of life for a reasonable price.

What are you waiting for? Go ahead and dive into our selection of articles to learn more about the best places in the world to retire.

Best Places Archives

The Five Best Day Trips From Da Nang

The Five Best Day Trips From Da Nang

By Wendy Justice |
February 7, 2020

Da Nang is modern and clean, safe and friendly, with an ever-expanding population of expats and one of the most majestic beaches you’ll find anywhere. Boldly designed bridges, a riverside promenade, museums, and some of the best (and most affordable) tailor-made clothing you’ll find anywhere add to its charms...

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Puerto Cayo: Finding Old-Fashioned, Small-Town Beach Living in Ecuador

Puerto Cayo: Finding Old-Fashioned, Small-Town Beach Living in Ecuador

By Seán Keenan |
February 7, 2020

Anybody can do it,” Bonnie Gelley says, gesturing with an outstretched arm toward the expanse of Pacific Ocean that forms the view from her home in Puerto Cayo, Ecuador. A wide, gently curved bay fills the view from the panoramic windows, with tropical vegetation sweeping to the beach in the foreground...

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Small, Pleasant, and Not Yet Overrun: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Small, Pleasant, and Not Yet Overrun: Ljubljana, Slovenia

By John Clites |
February 7, 2020

Serendipity led me to Ljubljana. I’d planned to take the overnight ferry from Italy to Croatia, when my friend, Marcela, suggested looping up and over through Slovenia. On the bus from Trieste, I was soon glad that I’d heeded Marcela’s suggestion. The scenery was lovely...

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The Colorful and Unique Food and Wine of Georgia

The Colorful and Unique Food and Wine of Georgia

By Tricia A. Mitchell |
February 5, 2020

When people refer to Georgia, there’s often confusion about which continent this Caucasus country is on. In terms of geography, Georgia, which is bordered by the Black Sea, Turkey, Armenia, Russia, and Azerbaijan, is in Asia. However culturally, Georgians consider themselves European...

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Taking a Tour of Mendoza’s High-Altitude Bodegas

Taking a Tour of Mendoza’s High-Altitude Bodegas

By Yvonne Bauche |
February 3, 2020

Argentina is famous worldwide not only for its asado (the technique and event of having and attending a barbecue) but also for its wine, making it the ideal country for a red wine, red meat tour. Spanish colonizers brought the first vines in the early 1600s...

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Cuba Catches the Rhythm and Color of the Caribbean

Cuba Catches the Rhythm and Color of the Caribbean

By Bonnie W. Hayman |
January 14, 2020

Flamboyant, contradictory, and soaked with a defiant natural energy, Cuba beguiles all who visit her. This small country is projected to entertain over 5 million visitors in 2019 alone. In 2017, 600,000 American travelers (without Cuban family ties) visited the nation...

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Three Unexpected, Low-Cost Options for a Golfing Retirement Overseas

Three Unexpected, Low-Cost Options for a Golfing Retirement Overseas

By International Living |
January 9, 2020

“What about the golf scene?” To an avid golfer this eclipses even healthcare as a need-to-know. While golf can prove to be a prohibitively expensive pastime in North America, in the right places overseas, you can play a round for a lot less than back home...

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10 Things to Do in Panama

10 Things to Do in Panama

By Jessica Ramesch |
December 19, 2019

Here’s our round-up of 10 things to do in Panama…with a few insider tips you’ll be glad to have under your belt (or fanny pack, as it were). Though we’re counting down from 10 to number 1...

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The 5 Best Places for Expats to Live in Thailand

The 5 Best Places for Expats to Live in Thailand

By International Living |
August 4, 2019

Thailand is one of the world’s most popular locales for good living abroad. And there are lots of reasons why. For pennies on the dollar you get a year-round tropical climate and access to modern comforts and conveniences, including affordable, high quality medical care.

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Top 5 Healthiest Places in the World

Top 5 Healthiest Places in the World

By International Living |
July 8, 2019

Home to 4.4 million people, New Zealand and its awesome landscapes are admittedly a long way from North America. But as our winter is their summer, you could consider retiring here part-time. In a pollution-free environment, it’s much easier to embrace a healthy lifestyle.

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