Costa Rica is the ideal place to retire partly because of its warm climate, expat community, and foreign-income tax exemptions. Mountain towns like those in the Central Valley offer retirees cool ...

Panama has claimed the top spot in International Living’s Annual Global Retirement Index for 2025, unseating Costa Rica, which dropped to third place behind Portugal, according to the report released ...

Costa Rica has been an expat magnet for decades, with an estimated 70,000 Americans residing in a country of more than five million people. In addition to its other attributes, Costa Rica offers a ...

Retirement planning is funny in a not-funny way. On paper, it looks like math. In real life, it feels like emotion, security, ...

Costa Rica ranks third in the Best Places to Retire in 2025: The Annual Global Retirement Index, published by International Living. Although it remains one of the favorites, the country no longer ...

The 2026 Annual Global Retirement Index has announced its top 10 places to retire. Here's why these places are such hot spots ...

If you’re thinking about retiring abroad, you’re in good company. According to the Foreign Affairs Manual, more than 760,000 Americans received Social Security benefits while living outside the United ...

Trent Anderson may drive for Uber in Tampa, Florida, but his daydreams take him to places like picturesque Malaga, a city in the south of Spain. “It’s got the beach. It’s got the mountains. It has a ...

There are so many reasons to retire in Costa Rica. Chief among them is that life is easy in the tropical land of “pura vida” — and so is making the decision to relocate to this small Central American ...