For many, overseas retirement is the dream. Maybe you envision yourself spending your retirement somewhere tropical, splayed out in a hammock on the beach… Or perhaps you see yourself with a more cosmopolitan lifestyle, eating out often and taking in high culture whenever you feel like it.
Regardless of the specifics, daydreaming about retirement somewhere far away is your favorite pastime. It’s what gets you through the mundane meetings and tedious tasks of the last years of your working life until, finally, you can wrap up your career for good and retire.
All of a sudden, the dream is a reality and so too are all the steps that you need to take to make it happen. There’s paperwork to fill out, residency and tax laws to wrap your head around… You need to box up your life, sell the house and car… and most difficult, say goodbye to your friends and family…
This is the nitty-gritty of retiring overseas, the decidedly “un-fun” actions that need to be taken to pull off such a drastic life change. For most people, the sacrifices are ultimately worth the reward—the chance to have an adventure somewhere new and exciting.
For many others, though, the pills of permanently retiring overseas are too big to swallow, and they’re put off of the idea for good… But what if there was another option? If you’ve been reading Live and Invest Overseas for any amount of time, you know that the overseas retirement idea is infinitely customizable. What if you could retire overseas part-time?
I’m talking about having the best of both worlds: Living out your retire-overseas dreams but also keeping the house and never having to
say goodbye for good. The part-time approach to overseas living and retirement has been around for a while. It works well for people all around the world right now and is constantly being reinvented.
What would work best for you? You could spend half your time in the States and half your time in your preferred overseas locale, bypassing winter at home and enjoying the best weather in whichever country you’re interested in… or you could move overseas but change up countries every couple of months, living in a constant state of discovery.
What part-time overseas retirement looks like for you depends on your circumstances, your vision for your new life, and your reasons for not wanting to do this on a full-time basis. The good news is that anything’s possible: How you decide to play this is entirely up to you…
