Americans Abroad

my wife and I left St. Petersburg, FL in 2001 and cruised the western Caribbean. We sort of made it back to the USA - a couple of years in the US Virgin Islands a while back and a few months on the south coast of Puerto Rico. But we just could not face returning to "the real world" as we sometimes know it, or "the land of plenty" or even the "land of NO" if we feel snarky. It is nice to go visit once in a while, but it is too expensive to actually live there - we retired at age 40, and in the USA we would be broke but by choosing our lifestyle from a broader palette we can live quite fine. Learning new cultures and languages keeps the brain young!