world, California, Florida, the Southwest, including Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Texas. Often they leave the States completely and establish homes on the French Riviera, the Spanish Costa del Sol, or in Paris, Rome or London if cultural pursuits are of interest. The point we're leading up to is this. It isn't necessary to be rich to enjoy these things. Wealth is not needed to travel and certainly not needed to live abroad, or in the most desirable parts of our own country. It is being done by hundreds of thousands of Americans who have had the determination to get off the treadmill and to lead a full life in retirement from the rat-race. For the amount of money that it costs to buy a new automobile today you could live two or three years in comfort in some of the most beautiful places in the world. In the body of this book I am going to list a good many of these spots and give detailed information on how much it would cost to get by, or, if you have no income or pension at all, what kind of pleasurable, part time jobs, or small business opportunities are available. However, for right now let me throw a few quick facts at you that might set you back on your heels. That's what we need, so many of us, to be set back on our heels with facts. We need it so that we can be shocked to the point of at last standing up on our feet, showing determination and making a better life for ourselves. We've all heard of "bargain paradises" where a couple can live for as little as one hundred dollars a month in adequate comfort and even a certain luxury. They exist! Don't think they don't. And don't think that what I say is something that applied five years or ten years ago but that in these days of inflation it is no longer so. It is so, now, today! There are towns, cities, villages and resorts in Mexico, Spain, Austria, Greece, North Africa, Latin America, Portugal and even such exotic places as Turkey, Iraq and the South Sea Islands where living in comfort and even luxury is possible for a pittance. Did you know that a full time servant will cost you sixty to eighty dollars a month in Southern Spain? That a bottle of champagne in the same country sells for about 60$ in American money?
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