There are thousands of opportunities for bird watching in Mexico. Here in the Yucatan we have many species of birds that are native to this area, and we have professional guides who work out of Celestún, Yucatan (a small town on the beach about 90 minutes west of Merida, by car) that guide throughout Latin America.
In Portugal, we have the national health insurance and the national health system, which is not terribly efficient and it has long waiting lists so it is advisable for people to have private health insurance, which is not expensive. 
I pay US $150 a year for insurance on my Dodge truck, which is a big truck. 
The worst reasons to retire overseas are to live like a king and the idea that you want to go overseas because it is cheaper because that usually doesn’t pan out very well. The other reason is the idea of retiring overseas just because other people did it and you’re thinking that it’s a cool thing to do, so you’re going to do it. We live in a world where marketing and advertising, certainly, has a major sway on people. How to Combine Your Luck of Not Being Born South of the Border with Something Else
Some things in life we earn, and others, we don’t. We use many names to describe the things that happen to us that we don’t earn, including “fate,” “destiny,” “God’s will”, “luck,” and my personal favorite: “dumb luck.”
After reading more than 9,500 answers to questions and 300 stories of more than 600 expats in Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua and Belize about their life abroad and now having traveled through...
A disclaimer: I’m a capital G Gringo. I’ve been practicing my English skills for many years, and I’m proud to say that I have my native language down pretty well. In other words, I ain’t no expert in español, so keep that in mind.
I have met and spoken with many North American ex-pats while in Panama. I'm a curious guy, and one of the questions I often asked was why they were there. The answers weren't all that surprising to me.