Best Places In The World To Retire

The Cayo district is safe.
 
I’m on the police committee. Earlier this week we had a general meeting, open air downtown, with the new police chief, the mayor and the western district commissioner of police and few more dignitaries and a lot of people turned up to it. Everyone said they can’t be more pleased because the crime gone down so much.
 
I’ve been living here for almost 30 years and I don’t carry a gun. I’ve never been robbed, never...

The Cayo district is safe.
 
I’m on the police committee. Earlier this week we had a general meeting, open air downtown, with the new police chief, the mayor and the western district commissioner of police and few more dignitaries and a lot of people turned up to it. Everyone said they can’t be more pleased because the crime gone down so much.
 
I’ve been living here for almost 30 years and I don’t carry a gun. I’ve never been robbed, never been mugged, hassled, threatened; anything. About 3 years ago, we had a bad couple of months where there were a lot of robberies and a couple murders but that’s unusual. Yes, we have crime in Cayo.  Of course, we have robberies occasionally, but it’s safe.
 
I have two dogs in my garden but my garden isn’t closed and people come and wander in. I don’t have burglar bars. Most houses in Central America, South America, and Mexico are built with burglar bars, but I don’t have them on my house. 
I live in Santa Elena, which they say the bad side of town compared to San Ignacio, but I never had any problems.  People are very nice; my neighbors are very nice. We have neighborhood watch, which is fairly active. 
 
Anywhere in Santa Elena, San Ignacio or Belmopan you go for a walk at any time of the day or night, by yourself, with no problem. I had some Rotarians here last year for a conference and they couldn’t believe that we can walk around at night here. They say they can’t do it in their own country, but here, in Cayo, you can.  

 

(Pine trees and glass house Cayo District, Belize. pictured.)

In my opinion, one of the best places to live and retire is in Portugal is Cascais. Cascais is just half an hour away from Lisbon, which is the capital of Portugal. Within a radius of 50 kilometers (about 31 miles) from Cascais, you will find beaches, golf courses, castles, top class clinics, international schools, etc. You have everything that you need and want within a radius of 50 kilometers.
 
The Algarve is a little more spread out over a 100-kilometer (a little over 60...

In my opinion, one of the best places to live and retire is in Portugal is Cascais. Cascais is just half an hour away from Lisbon, which is the capital of Portugal. Within a radius of 50 kilometers (about 31 miles) from Cascais, you will find beaches, golf courses, castles, top class clinics, international schools, etc. You have everything that you need and want within a radius of 50 kilometers.
 
The Algarve is a little more spread out over a 100-kilometer (a little over 60 miles) coastline. From the Spanish border all the way to the western tip of Portugal, you will find that Algarve is divided into four centers. One of the best places to live in Algarve is Quinta do Lago, which is probably the most affluent place in the Algarve. It is for the really wealthy people, a bit like Monaco in Spain except that it is not a tax haven. Quinta do Lago has some enormous properties and so the wealthiest of the wealthy that want to retire in the Algarve would typically go to Quinta do Lago. 
 
As you move further east, the prices come down. Vilamoura is also a very nice upmarket place to live in the Algarve. It has world-class golf courses and an excellent marina for sailors. Moving westward from Vilamoura, you will find Alvor and then Lagos, which is the last of the really nice places to live in Portugal before you get to the western tip of the country.

 

(House in  Vilamoura, Portugal, pictured.)

Here is my answer.

Here is my answer.