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Early Retirement – Retire Overseas And Experience A Rich Culture

Early retirement in general and retiring overseas specifically may be part of the formula for living a longer and more fulfilled life.  There is something invigorating and a bit challenging about making a major transition to life in a foreign country.  Most people find that it changes their perspective on many different fronts.  You are […]

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Early Retirement – Retire Overseas – Never Too Old Never Too Young

Early retirement is only for people that want to live life to its fullest before they are too tired, too old, too sick or too broke to enjoy the experience.  But amazingly, that has very little to do with chronological age.  On our free North Coast Discovery Tours I routinely meet people of all ages […]

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Early Retirement – Retire Overseas To Squeeze More Life Out Of Your Dollar

Early retirement is still possible for the average American or Canadian when you choose to retire overseas.   Unfortunately, statistics show that many Americans are destined to a retirement of poverty unless they can change their ways.  For many there still may be a better alternative to a traditional retirement in the United States.  The […]

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Early Retirement – Retire Overseas Where It Is Still Affordable

Early retirement is still possible for the average American or Canadian when you choose to retire overseas.  There is probably not a week that goes by that I don’t receive at least one email or question about whether it is still feasible to retire early and live a good life on the North Coast of the […]

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We Share A Common Goal… Happiness

Check out this little thought provoking documentary film and then answer a few simple questions.  Who controls YOUR destiny?  Who is depriving YOU of happiness and that fulfilling sense of adventure and exploration that we all enjoyed as little kids before we stepped on the treadmill of life? As I watched this little 8 minute documentary I […]

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Cabrera Expats Check Out The Big Box Stores In Santiago

After leaving the La Sirena supermarket, we head a little farther into Santiago to check out the largest big box store in Santiago. Price Smart is very, very similar to a Costco or a Sams warehouse store in America. As you would expect, products of every imaginable kind are stacked high on the shelves from […]

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Cabrera Expats Head To Santiago For A Day Of Shopping

Continuing on our day trip down to Santiago for shopping, we stop over at one of my favorite little roadside restaurants filled with mountain bikers and catch a glimpse at a couple of the locals in costume promoting the upcoming Carnival in the town of La Vega.  We get to check out the downhill portion […]

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Where Do Cabrera Expats Shop – Santiago Shopping Trip

If you have followed the DR Escapes blog for any time at all I am sure you will recall that I call this little tropical village “Mayberry with Internet”, sort of like stepping back in time to a simpler lifestyle.  But I can hear some of you asking…. “But Barry, will we be stepping back into […]

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Mugged In Cabrera….. NOT

Imagine how concerned I was when I received an email from my video guy when he was down shooting some film recently.  The subject line of his email was “Mugged in Cabrera” and it contained a collage of pictures showing black eyes, egg-sized goose eggs and bleeding slices on both arms.  Needless to say I […]

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Sustainable Organic Farm Wrap-up

We hope you enjoyed our little Sunday tour of one of the local sustainable organic farms in the hills overlooking Cabrera and the coast. I hope now you understand just a little better why I am so convinced that any expats that choose to live here should never go hungry or lack for a source […]

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