Moving abroad, question by question

Six questions decide whether a move works. Each one is answered here with published price, health and residency data rather than opinion.

Cost of Living

What your money is actually worth, country by country, against published price levels.

10 pages · starts with “Best Countries to Retire on Social Security: What $2,086 a Month Really Buys”

The income floor each country sets, what it is pegged to, and what else the file has to show.

9 pages · starts with “Retirement Visa Income Requirements in 2026: 13 Countries, From $1,000 a Month to $4,510”

What care costs, what Medicare does not cover, and the age at which insurers stop selling.

5 pages · starts with “What Healthcare Actually Costs Abroad: Out-of-Pocket Spending in 56 Countries”

What a fixed budget buys abroad, where Americans actually go, and what the multiplier hides.

3 pages · starts with “Money When You Move Abroad: The Visa Number, the Real Budget, and the Exchange Rate Nobody Plans For”

Remote work visas, income thresholds, and the tax residency question that costs more than the visa.

1 page · starts with “Working Remotely From Abroad as an American: Six Visa Income Floors, the $132,900 Exclusion, and the Employer Problem”

Making local friends, feeling at home, and the month where it most often breaks.

6 pages · starts with “Where It Is Easiest to Make Local Friends Abroad, by the Survey Data”

Two tax systems at once: what the US still taxes, what the new country taxes, and the forms that catch people.

3 pages · starts with “Retiring Abroad and Taxes: What the US Keeps Taxing, What the New Country Takes, and Four Forms”