Upper-class lifestyle for $1500 a month... To casual visitors this colonial town in southern Ecuador looks like it was torn from the pages of hist… | Pinterest

Just Pinned to Domestic and Global News: Upper-class lifestyle for $1500 a month... To casual visitors this colonial town in southern Ecuador looks like it was torn from the pages of history. With its cobbled streets soaring cathedrals and bustling markets it exudes a lazy old world charm. But Cuenca is also on the cutting edge of a very modern trend: providing a safe haven for U.S. retirees who have found themselves unwilling or unable to live out their golden years at home. The growing wave of ex-pat seniors is not only upending notions about retirement in the hemisphere but reshaping the face of communities throughout the Americas. And the trend is expected to grow as waves of baby boomers exit the workforce ill-prepared for retirement. Theres no accurate way to measure the phenomenon but the Social Security Administration was sending payments to 380000 retired U.S. workers living abroad in 2014 up 50 percent from a decade ago. In the Americas records show that seniors are flocking to Canada Mexico Colombia the Dominican Republic and Ecuador. For a guy like me whos not a millionaire this all makes sense. James Skalski Cuenca retiree Best known for the Galapagos and providing asyl
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