The World's Best Places to Retire in 2024

 

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Celebrating International Living’s 33rd Annual Global Retirement Index

We’re on a Mission to Help You Find Your Just-Right Place Overseas

  • In the #1 country, we can show you a welcoming place where you could own at the beach for $140,000...live well on $2,300 a month...and find a relaxing, happy life by the Pacific Ocean. Here, a tight-knit community of expats and retirees has found an ideal place to live...
  • The #2 country offers Europe’s answer to California - where you can find yourself surrounded by ocean, rivers, and pine-shrouded mountains and hills...but still have all the comforts of a modern city...combined with the historic elegance of Old World buildings—and live comfortably for around $2,494 a month for a couple…
  • The country that grabs the #3 spot hands you an appealing balance of exotic foreign culture and familiar, First World lifestyle. From white sand beaches to little artsy towns... from big, cosmopolitan cities to villages tucked into lakeside coves, it’s possible for pretty much anybody to find a lifestyle that fits. A couple can live well—all in—for about $1,905 a month...

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Let Our Readers Tell You About the Places in International Living’s Global Retirement Index 2024

We are mortgage-free half a mile from the beach...
say James and Jeanne B. from their perch in a little coastal town set at the edge of a long stretch of white sand in the world’s #1 retirement haven for 2024.
We rent a house with ocean view in [#2 retirement haven] for €500 a month. Only a 10-minute walk from our doorstep, there are five different beaches to choose from. In the States, a property like that would be quadruple the price at least.
Expat Rick S.
The climate is nearly perfect, so utilities are a fraction. Taxes are a fraction. We have full-time housekeeping/gardening help and have become very spoiled.
Dwight H., who left Santa Fe, New Mexico for an arts-rich town in the world's #3 retirement haven.