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We retired early 14 years ago and moved abroad because the US was too expensive. We set our sights on Cuenca, Ecuador, which has moderate weather and is super walkable. Our cost of living is much lower now and we love living here. We can walk everywhereWalkability was huge on our retirement wish list, and Cuenca has been a dream. Cuenca's weather is fantasticAnother feature high on our retirement wish list was a temperate climate.
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Edd and Cynthia Staton manage to travel the world on their Social Security income. When the Great Recession of 2008 wiped Edd and Cynthia Staton out financially, their retirement plan "disappeared," the couple told Insider. At the time, Edd was 61 and months away from being able to take early Social Security, while Cynthia was 58. "It costs us more every year to go to the States than it does anywhere else in the world," noted Cynthia. Here are four strategies they use to live and travel internationally on a budget.
Edd and Cynthia Staton's retirement plan was derailed when the Great Recession wiped them out. They took what savings they had and moved to Ecuador, where the cost of living was lower. They've been living comfortably abroad for over a decade on a budget of $2,000 a month. Edd and Cynthia Staton met as teenagers when Cynthia's family moved from Charlotte, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia in 1967. Living stress-free on $2,000 a month in Ecuador for 10 yearsTheir immediate hurdle was finding a place to live.
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