Keep On Learning – Your New Retirement Lifestyle
I really do believe in the old adage “you’re never too old to learn something new”. Over the years as a public school teacher, I had many occasions to work with the local public and private colleges and universities in my area. Much to my delight, I observed many retired people taking courses. In fact, many are actually working towards a degree matriculation. As the most recent research indicates, this is yet another activity that may protect against Alzheimer’s and result in lower rates of decline in short-term memory and perceptual memory (a persons ability to perceive new information).
Here are some specific examples on how to keep those brain cells active:
Adult Education
By all means, contact your local board of education to determine if adult education programs are offered in your community. You’ll find the cost to be minimal, the offerings to be extensive, and the rewards to be quite satisfying. Many communities offer joint programs in conjunction with neighboring towns and cities. By pooling resources, these towns and cities are readily able to expand their course offerings. Most courses are offered in the evening from 7:00PM – 9:00PM. A semester typically lasts four to six weeks.
The peso is down 30% from last year. The US dollar is worth more today in Mexico than it has for the last 15 years. A home selling for $100,000 is now $70,000 based only on the dollar to peso exchange rate.
The news makers in America are helping buyers, certainly not the Mexican people, enjoy bargains. If you believe the media, Mexico is a war zone with shootouts on every corner. That may be somewhat true in the border towns, where drug smugglers trying to get their product into the US are killing each other. It is not true in the places Americans would retire to. Mexico has an overall crime rate three times less than the US.
It is a place where young ladies safely walk to the town square at dusk and visit their friends. Americans who have retired in Mexico report they feel safer in Mexico than in the US.
All three, the recession, the weak peso and the media distortions make retiring to Mexico a bargain for Americans. $1000 to $2000 a month and you can live very, very well. Depending on location (which in turn depends upon your willingness to learn Spanish) and what’s important to each retiree.
And ladies that figure includes a maid. If you retire in Mexico you may have cleaned your last window…now how is that for a silver lining in the recession. Enjoy retiring to Mexico
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