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 Belize
- one of the world’s top retirement havens - From
its Caribbean shores to its jungle interior, Belize has great natural beauty—blue
water, deserted beaches, and inland retreats where you can explore Mayan
ruins, tall waterfalls, rainforests, and rivers. Bird watching in Belize’s
interior is also a treat; you’ll be able to spot parrots, toucans, flycatchers,
and herons in their natural habitat or visit a jaguar preserve where you
can venture into the jungle in search of the elusive cats. It’s no wonder
Belize’s tourism industry is booming. If recent figures are any indication;
this tiny tropical paradise could be on its way to becoming the next hot
destination for explorers, expats, retirees, and investors. Between 2003
and 2004, cruise visits to this country increased by a full 55.1%—as opposed
to just 13.1%, for example, for the same period in the Bahamas. - Belize
- one of the world’s top retirement havens - By Kathleen Peddicord
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All
Over Belize in Boats, Planes, and Golf Carts
- Keith and Erin are travellers who are taking a couple of years to see
the world. This is the first of many articles that will chronical a their
journey from beginning to end. In
Belize, they discovered a new and different way to travel. Keith writes,
"As Americans, we are all about cars. Everyone has one, sometimes two or
three, and we use them to go anywhere, even it's just around the corner
to get a cup of coffee. The same cannot be said for the country of Belize."
In the ten days they spent in Belize, they succeeded in shedding their
all-American dependency on the automobile by relying on just about every
other kind of transportation imaginable.
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the move and live in Belize - The Best Travel and Vacation Destinations
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Belize culture and all about the lifestyle - Escapeartist Belize is ready
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Analysis
Of The Top Ten Places to Live in Belize
- Lan Sluder looks at the top ten places to live in Belize and then asks
five questions that need to be answered before moving there. Important
questions and straight answers from the editor of Belize First Magazine.
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Belize
- Doing Business in Belize By Bill and Claire Gray-
The simplicity and ease with which one can start a business in Belize lets
many people do something they have always wanted to try but weren’t able
to back home. Being free from all the bureaucratic red tape, and expensive,
complicated procedures, frees a person to put all their creative energy
into their business. We love seeing owners of even the smallest of businesses
empowered like this. In the developing world no expects anything from the
government and so they know they either have to get out there and earn
money at something or live off the food they have growing in their yard
and the fish they can catch.
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Belize's
New Residency Program - Some Say It's The Best In The World!
- You can set up an office in Belize and run your business from there,
(taking advantage of the low overhead costs , and tax free status we might
add ) and still qualify for this program, as long as none of the money
your company earns comes from a source within Belize. In this age of e-commerce
and telecommuting , this scenario could work for a vast number of people.
~ Bill & Claire Gray tell us how to move to Belize - Sounds good, but
who in their right mind wants to live on a white-sand beach when they could
be living in Detroit?
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Down
In Ol' Belize - Expat Explorations and Back Country Research-
"At our table, Wild Bill told me his story: He arrived in Placencia, he
told me, a year earlier after driving around the U.S. in a motor home.
On the word of two ladies he met in Colorado and his subsequent research,
he began to believe that there was a village in Central America called
Placencia, which had everything he was looking for: avorable money exchange,
fresh food, great diving, and a laid-back lifestyle, complete with thatched
huts and wild animals."
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Female,
In Search Of A Country - By Robins Sparks
- Find a country to live in - In Placencia, Belize, unlike Paris, I settled
in for a nap every afternoon in an audio space saturated with the melodious
songs of birds. On the other hand, the sand flies in my bed kept me twitching
and slapping, preventing me from napping as assuredly as the landscapers
in the Paris garden below. ~ The first in a series of articles by Robin
Sparks. Join her in our webZine as she interviews expatriates around the
world and shares the individual tales of escape artists from Belize to
Paris, to China and the Middle East, down to South America and beyond.
You won't want to miss this series.
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Finding
a Little Piece of Paradise in Belize
- In the late 1980's my husband Bill and I bought a used R.V., packed it
with everything we felt we couldn't live without and moved from our home
in Hollywood California to Belize, Central America.
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Homesteading
In Belize - Homesteading the Mosquito
Coast. Article by Bill & Claire Gray who are more or less considered
the authorities on moving to Belize. They make homesteading land in Belize
sound very simple.
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Health
Care in Latin America - It's Better Than You Think
- as a patient you have so much more freedom because your health care is
literally in your own hands. In Latin America you can walk into a lab and
ask for any test that you'd like without a doctor's order, or go into any
pharmacy and buy whatever medication you'd like without a prescription.
When your tests results come back you go and pick them up and show them
to your doctor not, vice versa.
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How
To Make Enormous Returns In Overseas Youth Development
- People decide to start youth centers and outreach programs for a variety
of reasons. The reasons for attempting to operate one overseas can be even
more diverse. Generally, when someone is interested in starting a youth
program overseas it requires a substantial commitment of forethought since
they will be faced with both the normal challenges of youth center operation,
and then some.
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Multiple
advantages of Living Overseas: a new and refreshing way to look at Offshore
- Edmund J. Pankau writes about the broader meaning of offshore, this time
in terms of the real advantages to the ordinary person seeking a lower
cost of living, a better quality of life, reasonable and fantastic real
estate, lower taxes, and ground floor business opportunities. "In recent
years, Central America has become the Florida, California and Arizona of
the 1950’s.
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How
to Live, Retire, Work or Invest in Belize
- For a certain kind of person there is a certain kind of place;and
for certain people that place is Belize. Belize - the laid back Caribbean
country of Central America! It's a favorite of those seeking a calmer
lifestyle in close proximity to the wonders of nature. Like a un-planed
2x4 full of splinters, Belize is sturdy, rugged and full of sandfleas,
but it also has it's share of beautiful islands, adventuresome spirits
and rum soaked nights. It's the place we dreamed about as children.
A place where we could do what we wanted without being called in to wash
up for dinner. It's a place where you need to know how to repair your own
car and replace parts of your plumbing with bailing wire and tape. It's
also a place where big brother isn't looking over your shoulder and you
can set your own building codes or own a flock of chickens. It's a place
where you can spend the day fishing without trying to keep up with the
Jones's. It's also become one of the hottest expatriate destinations in
Latin America. ...it's not for everyone, but it may be for you. If so,
there's a new eBook that will take you to Belize and help you stay there.
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Estate In Belize - Current Listing -
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Retire
In Belize - Writer and editor Lan Sluder brings
us the latest information about retiring in Belize. Belize is a favorite
for expatriates seeking a home away from home and with good reason. Lan
covers lifestyle, weather, crime, highlights of the Retired Persons Incentive
Act, health and real estate.
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'Tax-Free'
Residency In Belize - New Retired Persons
Incentive Act Allows 'Tax-Free' Residency In Belize - The Retired Persons
Incentive Act passed by the Belize legislature in early 1999 is now in
force and being implemented by the Belize Tourism Board.
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The
Rules Are Different in Belize - Most Americans
have lead sheltered lives and are not fully prepared for the adjustments
to a new country. Belize is a paradise, but like every paradise it has
it's difficulties. Lan Sluder is the editor of Belize First Magazine. If
you've got your heart set on Belize you better read what Lan has to say.
You might need to adjust your rose colored glasses before you pack your
bags - - or at least get the prescription checked.
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Warning
- An Escapeartist Living in Belize Fights US Tax Indictment
- Jay Picon (aka Joseph Ross) resides in Belize along with hundreds of
other expats who have settled there over the years. But Ross is unique.
In 1986, he was served a U.S. indictment on tax evasion charges alleging
he failed to disclose and pay taxes on savings held in a Mexican bank account.
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Which
Way To Heaven?
- By Robin Sparks - Through Hell, High Water, and a Hurricane: the story
of one couple’s perilous journey from New England to Belize - "The 2500-mile
journey symbolized for the couple the end of 20 years of dreaming and the
beginning of a two-year trial run
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Why
Belize Still Remains an Attractive Offshore Tax Haven - Even For US Citizens
- Following
the various terrorist atrocities across the world in recent years, and
partially as a result the on-going global battle against money laundering
and drug trafficking, many of the higher taxation countries - such as the
US and UK - have begun restricting and eliminating the attractions of tax
havens for their citizens. Sept./06
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Gotta See It To Belize It! - Most people
have a picture postcard image of their ideal beach vacation, replete with
lounging and reading on sandy white beaches, sipping tropical drinks while
gazing at a gorgeous sunset, after snorkeling in warm, turquoise waters.
Well, welcome to Un-Belizable Belize during low season. (April to November)
While many head to tropical escapes during the winter, I highly recommend
that you summer in Belize.
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You'd
Better Belize It's Better
- Tim Sheppard and his wife Yumiko took a trip to Belize and ended up buying
property there. As he says, "I have been looking for my own personal spot
in the sun for several years.
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