retirement

From Chilly Sweden To Tropical Cabrera – Glass Artist Inspired By The Tropics

We have a new artist joining the Cabrera community.  This Swedish couple made the leap and purchased a fantastic oceanview condo overlooking the coast and the village of Cabrera.  Reino is a native of South America that has spent the last 17 years in Sweden.  Nazreen is a native of Sweden and is a glass […]

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Cleveland Ohio Expat Shares His Strategy For Fitting In To The Cabrera Community

Everybody has their own reasons for trying out the expat life on a tropical island.  Some just want a slower, less material pace of life.  Others want to help less advantaged people.  Some want to get out of the harsh, cold winters.  Some want to live the good life with a lower cost of living.  […]

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Living A Full Life Out From Under The Heavy Thumb Of A Job And The Tax Man

This article is about freedom.  Freedom from the treadmill. Freedom from the erosion of your savings.  Freedom from loss of control over your own destiny. One of our expat friends recently shared a quote from Mark Twain, the famous American author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn fame.  It’s a simple quote, but like much […]

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Las Terrenas Adventures And Daytrips – Retire In Las Terrenas

Continuing our Retire On The North Coast series, we are taking a quick look at just a few of the daytrips out of Las Terrenas.  Of course all of these daytrips would also be in reach of our Cabrera expats too.  With the new roads over to Las Terrenas along Camino Cinco, highway 5, and […]

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Retire In Las Terrenas Dominican Republic – Retire In The Caribbean

Continuing our series on towns you might prefer for either retirement of for a vacation home, we head from Cabrera to Las Terrenas on the Samana Peninsula.  Of course we prefer Cabrera as a quiet and peaceful retirement destination, but there is also something pretty special about Las Terrenas. It used to take hours to […]

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Retire In Cabrera Dominican Republic – Part 2

The first Retire in Cabrera video was running long so I split it up into two parts.  This is the Part 2 to the Retire In Cabrera theme.  In this video we take a look at another quaint restaurant, some of the biggest villas that specialize in destination weddings and some of the homes and […]

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Retire In Cabrera Dominican Republic One Of The Best Places To Retire In The Caribbean

Expats choose to retire in Cabrera Dominican Republic for a lot of different reasons. This is the first Cabrera video on our tour of North Coast towns that expats choose for retirement. In this video and the next, we will introduce you to a few of the reasons that so many Americans, Canadians and Europeans […]

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Retire In Rio San Juan Near Playa Grande – Retire In The Caribbean

Rio San Juan and Playa Grande are the next stops on our Retire On The North Coast tour.  We are getting closer to our favorite town on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic.  Cabrera is only about 13 miles away from Rio San Juan and only about 7 miles from Playa Grande beach.  Up […]

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Living In the Caribbean – Pros And Cons Of The Dominican Republic

There is a lot to consider when you start to think about dropping out of the rat race up north and heading for the tropics.  Every now and then we see an especially informative video by other travel bloggers that can be helpful to our subscribers as they research their own move to the tropics. […]

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Making Room In The SDR Basket

It hasn’t even been a week since releasing my previous post regarding how SDR’s will be the future reserve. While the US Dollar will certainly play an active roll by being one of the largest eggs in the basket, it no longer will it be only egg in the basket. Eventually it will perish its […]

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