AmbergrisCaye.com Home Forums Talk Belize Chat Area SHOULD I RETIRE IN BELIZE?

what's retire mean? If you want to go live there, and contribute...of course...if you want to just add to the confusion...no

A strange proposition...living a decent, honest life in Belize is not enough...yah need to contribute? The great thing about retirement...no guilt!!!

Vacationing here is easy. Living here is totally different. You need lots of patience, a sense of humor, an easy going personality and low expectations. If you have all these, you can not be dissappointed.

outta curiousity... patience for what?!?!?

patience for everything! When someone says to you 'right now!', they really mean 'eventually'. Patience for BEL to turn the power back on when the electricity goes out every single night (as it has been all week). Patience when you're waiting in line to pay for something and 3 people butt in line infront of you. Patience when you're driving along and have to wait a couple minutes for the guy ahead of you to finish his conversation with the guy in the other car. Patience for the rain to stop when it seems it will never end so you can get out of the house before you kill your spouse... I could go on....

haha... that the island life for u... ppl are very laid back well i've noticed anyway!

but that does make sense what ur saying like if ur not a patient person... learn to be!

What a question!! Should you retire in Belize?? Amazing.. If you don't know, who would know?? A band of strangers to you?? I just find it amazing that anyone would ask something like this, everyone need to do what feels good in their gut in order to feel good about their choices, not what everyone else think is good..

Now if you asked how it is to live in Belize it would put things in a different light.. that is easy.. do you have all the time and patience in the world, respect for others, an open mind, without all the 'must have' ideas, economy to pull it off, a good part of commonsence toghether with an understanding and empathy for the ones that doesn't and believe you have what it takes to live on a small island it is wonderful, if not, it is terrible..

My grannie used to say; listen to the advices of others, reflect over them, throw away the ones you don't like and make a decision from what your hart tells you to do... the times I have followed her advice things has worked out to the better...

Good luck!

i think u just contradicted what u said...
he's getting advice from others on this board... and sometimes getting an opinion from strangers is better than well no opinion... and from there he'll make a decision...

sorry just mho...