Here are five of the most affordable places to retire in 2017 – WBNews

In International Living’s Annual Global Retirement Index 2017, we ranked and rated the 24 best retirement havens in the world. You can stretch your dollars in any of them and live better than you can back home—for less. And while all of these destinations are affordable, we have found the most cost-effective havens from the results of the “Cost of Living” category in the Index. The category evaluates things like day-to-day expenses to the cost of a flight back to the U.S. to visit the folks or grandkids… Groceries, movie theater tickets, eating out, garbage collection, gas, gym membership, and all the hidden and often unconsidered costs—like traveling around your new home and exploring neighboring towns. After all you’re there to have fun. Below are the top five retirement destinations for an affordable cost of living. If there is one thing that expats in the Kingdom of Cambodia are most likely to agree on it’s that this country offers an affordable cost of living that is hard to compete with. In fact, the first thing a new expat will notice when they move to Cambodia is the ease of processing their annual visa extension, which only costs $285 a year and imposes no minimum income requirements. Another area that reinforces Cambodia’s affordability are the great-value property rentals. Western style apartments are available to rent from $300 a month in the capital of Phnom Penh, and go for as little as $200 a month in the beach town of Sihanoukville, for…more detail