Sell Up, Pack Up and Take Off

The kids have grown up. The dog is dead. The job has ended or it's just too intolerable to put up with anymore. The house where you have lived for 30 years or so is too big. You've got maybe 20 good years ahead of you. What the hell are you going to do? Stay in that suburban home? Get another dog to make you feel like you have kids again? Hang about to look after the grandchildren? Count your pennies and scrimp because those retirement savings do not nearly go as far as you thought they would? Go to the same club, pub, restaurants, or golf course you have gone to for the past two decades? Watch your mates die? Watch a lot more TV? Do the lawns a little more than you need to and get those edges really sharp? This book speaks to those who want a break from their lives, whether they be 40-year-olds who are burnt out or sick of their same old dreary lives, or retirees who are seeing retirement not as sunset years, but as the dawn to a new and exciting life. It is a practical guide to relocating overseas (in Asia--Malaysia, Bali, Thailand, Vietnam, or the Philippines--or southern Europe--Spain, Greece, southern France) either permanently or for a sabbatical. It looks at the different places you can live; the tricks of buying or renting a house; the problems posed by illness; and the financial aspects of managing your super and tax. This book offers up a whole new existence. It looks at an international life in a variety of cheap but safe and exotic countries. This book examines the how, why, and where of getting a new life.