Turn Retirement Worries Into Retirement Adventures By Going Abroad Kathleen Peddicord - The Huffington Post
go to original April 27, 2014

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Why are big numbers of Americans pushing back their planned retirement dates? The Employee Benefit Research Institute in its annual Retirement Confidence Survey says the reason can be summed up in three words: "a poor economy."

More specifically, according to the study, Americans are changing their retirement age for the following reasons:

• Poor economy, 25%
• Can't afford it, 18%
• Change in employment situation, 17%
• Health care costs, 12%
• Higher-than-expected cost of living, 9%
• Lack of faith in Social Security or the government, 9%

The unpleasant reality of today's America is that Americans trying to get ahead by working face daunting odds... and long working lives.

But you don't have to - not if you allow yourself to think outside the box. I know that sounds cavalier and maybe cliché. But a cliché can be useful until something better comes along, and in this case what's called for is literally lifting yourself out of your current box and motivating yourself to transplant yourself to a new one.

Maybe I'm stretching the metaphor, but you see what I'm getting at. What I'm saying is this: get up, get going, and get out of the country, at least part of the time, at least for a while.

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