Belize

Belize: A Caribbean Paradise Just A Flight Away

Belize is undeniably one of the best places in the world to hang your hat…

The search for land, water, gold, timber, and oil have led people from around the world to Belize since the Maya first settled in the region thousands of years ago.

With its forests, coastlines, and rivers, it boasts an embarrassment of riches in life-sustaining natural resources. These resources once supported an agrarian population of nearly 500,000 Maya and continue to provide for a range of lifestyles.

Today, Belize is a safe, welcoming and unassuming country where the population values personal privacy, self-determination, and freedom. And it’s one of the quirkiest places we know…

Belize City’s roadways are built around a system of roundabouts (thanks to her British colonizers), but shops alongside them sell rice, beans, and tortillas still ground by hand.

Everyone you meet speaks English (it’s the country’s official language), but this belies the stories of their origins.

The 350,000 people populating Belize today are descendants of migrants from Britain, yes, but also and more so the surrounding Central American countries.

You’ve got Mexicans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Nicaraguans mixing with current-day generations of the Maya who originally inhabited this land, the pirates who came later, the Mennonite farmers who began arriving on the scene in the 16th century, the British who ruled until 1981, and each other.

Only a 135-minute flight from the United States, Belize is a tax haven, an investment haven, and a premier retirement destination.

This is pure, classic Caribbean… With 250 miles of white-sand Caribbean beaches and more than 400 islands, plus expansive rain forests with huge networks of rivers and caves and Mayan ruins.

You could settle in Belize quickly and comfortably with rents starting at around US$650 a month. Double that rent, and you could make your home on the popular, sand-fringed island of Ambergris Caye.

Belize is a country of freedom-seekers. The pirates came to ply their pirate trading out of view. The Mennonites came from Germany and the Netherlands so they could be Mennonites without anyone bothering them. The British came so they could bank in private. And the folks from the surrounding countries who’ve sought out Belize over the past few decades typically have made their way across this country’s borders in search of safety.

Belize is also one of the easiest places to become resident—and offers many tax and investment benefits to the retiree.

Since Survivor and Temptation Island put it on America’s radar, sleepy little Belize has been attracting attention for its white-sand beaches, coral reef, Mayan ruins, and virgin rainforest.

This under-the-radar, sand-fringed, English-speaking country in the Caribbean offers a warm climate… an affordable cost of living… lifestyle options from sandy beachfront to quiet inland retreats… safety… stability… privacy… independence… freedom…