
It’s close to the U.S., the food is both terrific and familiar, and it’s fairly easy to make the move. And Mexico is often the first place American retirees and digital nomads consider when looking at places overseas with a lower cost of living. Long story short, that post went viral and a million visitors have read about the $500 baseline costs to live in Thailand.Ĭlearly the financials are interesting. As the months passed, I was so surprised by how affordable living there was that I shared a cost of living post … mostly for the readers in the A Little Adrift community who had written me over the years wondering how they could afford to live or retire abroad. That was the first time I stayed put in one spot and became a semi-expat.

Before settling on living in Mexico, I lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand for five months and loved it enough to move back the following year. I have lived and worked from around the world for more than a decade.
