International Living – 2012 Ultimate Event Conference-At-Home Kit

Dear International Living Reader,

What if your retirement looked like this…

“We’re lying together in a hammock. The sun is shining brightly overhead, there’s a cool breeze, and I can hear the distant sounds of a carnival. Our garden is lush and full of blooming hibiscus and ginger plants. Our fountain gurgles and above us the banana leaves sway…”

Only a few months ago, this couple from New Orleans was buried under a mountain of past-due bills. “We were slowly drowning,” says Rebecca T. Yet today she and her husband are free of the 50-hour work weeks…and the worry. In a good-value colonial city overseas, they rented a home for just $450 a month. That gave them the flexibility they needed to look for a place of their own. A few weeks in, they found it: A “magnificent house”for just $150,000—a place they transformed into a B&B that provides them both activity and income…

And they’re just one couple among tens of thousands who—faced with an uncertain (or downright grim) lifestyle at home—have traded up overseas.

“Living in California, we were spoiled by the warm climate and beautiful beaches,” says Patricia F. “Retirement would—or should—have given us time to enjoy all that more fully. And yet we had no realistic chance of retiring anywhere near a beach in California.”

Lifestyle online course

More information about Lifestyle:

Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture.
The term was introduced by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler with the meaning of “a person’s basic character as established early in childhood”.
For example, in his 1929 book “The Case of Miss R.”. The broader sense of lifestyle as a “way or style of living” has been documented since 1961.
Lifestyle is a combination of determining intangible or tangible factors.
Tangible factors relate specifically to demographic variables, i.e. an individual’s demographic profile,
whereas intangible factors concern the psychological aspects of an individual such as personal values, preferences, and outlooks.

A rural environment has different lifestyles compared to an urban metropolis.
Location is important even within an urban scope.
The nature of the neighborhood in which a person resides affects the set of lifestyles available
to that person due to differences between various neighborhoods’ degrees of affluence and proximity to natural and cultural environments.
For example, in areas near the sea, a surf culture or lifestyle can often be present.