‘To hell with it:’ She ditched Canada at 56 for Belize, where couples get ‘everything you could imagine’ for under $50,000 a year
“Adventure — that’s what makes my heart sing,” the now-63-year-old, former British Columbia resident tells MarketWatch. So when she happened across a story online about Belize being the next hot retirement destination about seven years ago, she almost immediately booked a flight.
At first, she thought the relationship might just be casual — “I said to him, you know I’m heading out in November; if you want to have fun this summer, then I’m in, but I am leaving” — but they fell in love, and moved to Belize together that year. They bought a home, and on the property next to it built a bed and breakfast and a coffee shop .
The area: Madonna has been all over the world, but it’s Ambergris Caye she sings about in “La Isla Bonita,” calling it “where I long to be … the beautiful island.” And she’s right about that: “Encircled by the second largest coral reef in the world, lined with mangrove and palm trees ... Ambergris Caye looks like a real-life postcard,” MarketWatch wrote in a recent story about where to retire in the Caribbean.
Rents aren’t supercheap: For example, Mar rents out the two apartments on her property for about $750 and $1,100 per month each, and she says that you can rent a one-bedroom oceanfront condo unit for about $1,500 a month. She estimates expenses for groceries are about $350 or $400 a month, though she notes that you may spend more if you opt for imported foods.
Health care: For small health issues, there’s a clinic on the island, and for more serious needs people tend to go to Belize City on the mainland or to Mérida, a larger city in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula, Mar says. Health care is inexpensive in general; Houghton says she pays about $25 for a routine doctor’s visit on the mainland. But she says she’ll go back to Canada if she needs a major procedure.
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