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Best Off-The-Radar Foreign Retirement Spots

Best Off-The-Radar Foreign Retirement Spots
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Huff/Post 50 Editor, The Huffington Post

Forget Ecuador. Really forget Costa Rica. As for Italy, sure, if you win the lottery. All these are played out retirement locations - once hot, once affordable but no more.

Where to retire if you want outside the U.S. and you also want to live on your Social Security check- which is what something more than one-third of us will do? Read on for a short list of places that deserve a second look, maybe more. They are affordable. The weather is nice. The politics are (reasonably) stable. Americans are welcome (though you may have to learn at least a little of a foreign tongue).

Expect the unexpected.

Such as?

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