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If you played your cards right, retirement is the perfect opportunity to kick back and relax.
At least until the bills start seeping in. In the U.S., medical costs are through the roof (and that’s if you can even get in to see your doctor without waiting months), a used car costs what a new car did just a few years ago, and gone are the days of a quality McDonald’s dollar menu.
To top it off, you have property taxes. Taxes on a home you own that, regardless of what you paid for the home decades earlier, continue to go up. While property taxes can vary wildly based on where you live in the U.S. (Detroit, surprisingly, has the most expensive property taxes in the country), with the median sale price of homes hitting $427,800 in July of 2025, the amount of money you have to toss away blindly can hinder your retirement income.
Perhaps you’ve considered moving abroad for your golden years. That would certainly help address medical costs (according to the World Health Organization, the U.S. has the highest healthcare expenditure per capita of anywhere in the world), but at the same time, a…