I’ll bet we have heard that expression used hundreds of times. Well in Costa Rica many people can get back their lives.

Because of the recent financial crisis in the U.S. a large number of middle class retirees are facing the prospect of outliving their financial assets. Furthermore, even if the stock market comes back it is highly unlikely anyone will recover 100% of their loss. Fifty percent at best according to the experts. Those who planned on using the equity in their homes to help with their retirement are going to lose out, too because most of their equity of that is now gone. So what can you do?

One solution is to move offshore to a country like Costa Rica to get more bang for your buck and to enjoy a high quality life style. Nobody wants to spend their retirement years worrying about money and not enjoying themselves. In Costa Rica you can live on a few thousand dollars a month and have all the amenities of home. You will have to the time to do things that are important, such as devoting more time to the grand kids, pursuing a new hobby, making friends, traveling and in general enjoying a lifestyle you could never have afforded in the States.

Costa Rica has more foreign retirees per capita outside of the U.S. They can’t be wrong! They have discovered what life is for — living.

This is all possible in Costa Rica since the country offers year-round spring-like weather, every imaginable indoor and out door activity to stay busy and happy, low cost housing, first-world affordable medical care, high-speed Internet, first-run movies in English, theater, shopping malls, private mail services to help you stay in touch with the States and order products and so much more. The medical care alone is what brings scores of people here. In the States many people’s nest eggs have been wiped out by illnesses. That isn’t the case in Costa Rica which offers several attractive health care plans. I have had dozens of people on my monthly relocation/retirement tours end up moving here just for the medical care alone.