Looking for a place to retire with little more than a Social Security check?

“If you’re living on $3,000 in the United States and if you could have [the same standard of living] and move somewhere and have it cost $1,500 a month – you’ve just doubled your money,” Dan Prescher, a senior editor at InternationalLiving.com, told Benefits Pro's sister site ThinkAdvisor via phone from his home in Ecuador. Adding, “And there are a lot of places like that around the world.”

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Emily Zulz

Emily joined the ThinkAdvisor team as a reporter in the summer of 2014. She previously worked as a reporter for The Daily Journal in Kankakee, Illinois for a year and as a reporter and editor for The Daily Eastern News in Charleston, Illinois for two and a half years. Prior to joining ThinkAdvisor, Emily worked on Groupon’s editorial team in Chicago as a fact checker for three years. She graduated cum laude with a BA in journalism from Eastern Illinois University, and she has been the recipient of two journalism awards for her news reporting at daily newspapers.