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Can I actually afford to live here?

7 years ago
My wife and I are already US expats living in Mexico, but we haven't yet determined where we are going to put down roots.

We are both collecting Social Security and we have a modest retirement account, say monthly of about 3500 USD.

I'm not looking for a Villa Only the Riviera, but neither do I want to move and find I can't "really" afford anything but a backstreet studio either. So to start my France questions...

For health reasons we need to be in a warmish environment. Where are the possible locations (if any) where our budget might work?

Initially we would rent, but if we fall in love with an area we would use our nestegg to buy (factoring into monthly budget).

Thanks in advance for your toughts.

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