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Belize Retirement Guide: How to Live in a Tropical Paradise on $450 a Month

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First of all, Bill and Claire Gray need to hire a good editor. Even a bad editor could improve this. Their book is so full of punctuation and grammar errors that it makes reading difficult and continually annoys.

Beyond that, the book is brief, anecdotal, and incomplete. It's poorly organized and badly illustrated. I simply don't understand the positive reviews. I'll be looking for something better since I'm hoping to spend time in Belize soon and possibly retire there.

Granted, the Blair's have shared some helpful hints from their years of living in Belize. There are tips on entering the country, transportation, and immigration. Some of these, though, seem unreliable and vague.

If this were the only book on the subject it might be worth having, but I'm guessing there has to be something better out there.

I expected a comprehensive guide on living/retiring in Belize. The amount of material is actually very small in this book which spends way too many pages on info of limited relative importance (how to get there for instance) and basically none on the essentials such as real estate. The book is esentially a sales tool for additional 'special reports' written by the authors.

I paid for the book and after reading it wanted to send it back. There is very little information for the person that is interested in moving there. If you want that information you have to buy more books or whatever from the authors,again at high prices. It seemed to me that the authors wrote this book to sell more of there books on Belize. I planned on moving to Belize but have to find other books or information to get real information on living there. Sorry, but I think the book is a ...Funny, but I think the authors think the same way. I also got a video on Belize when I ordered the book. The video still didn't give me the information that I wanted.

Just returned from Belize-had a great time , will be returning in November. I just can't praise the retirement guide enough.It was with us all the time as a quick reference and gave my sister and I that special "edge". After practically memorizing "Belize Retirement Guide before we departed , it was as if, when we arrived , we were visiting an old friend. I could find no category in which comment or assistance and addresses or phone numbers had not been included.

We have found a house to rent and are planning on retiring in Belize.

If you want to know how to drive through Mexico...then buy this book!! Otherwise, there is no info on how they live for 350 a month in Belize! In fact, I really doubt that is the case!! Any info in their book, can be found by researching online, there is not one piece of info that I got from this book, that I didn't already know, except how to drive through Mexico! And I don't want to drive through Mexico! I think this book is a waste of money, and time. I wanted to know, where and how they lived...not in book!! I also bought the book..Easy Belize by Lan Sluder..and I highly recommend that book, very good information!!!

Of all the books I've read on Belize, and I've read plenty, the writings of Bill and Claire Gray are the only works I've found that are written by expatriates actually living in Belize.Their writing is a love affair with Belize.If you want to find out about living in Belize they are where we should start.

Okay, I haven't even read the book, I'm simply reacting to the title.
I've spent a bit of time travelling and lodging in BZ, starting in 1992, and I can assure you that no gringo can live there for $450/month-not at what he/she regards as "living". It is the most expensive country in Central America, and, while beautiful and friendly and easy (English spoken) it sure ain't any bargain. And I love the country.

The authors blow all credibility with that "$450/ month" balderdash. Why not entitle it "Free Money?" Same difference.
Jerry

Belize Retirement Guide has impressed me as much more than then other retirement guides! When I read it, I felt like I had a guide right next to me and that I was actually visiting Belize. The Gray's have provided a guide that is both entertaining and factual which you will understand, after reading it, could only have been written by someone who actually lives there and done that. They provide you with both the Pro's and Con's of moving to and living in Belize from their first hand knowledge and not armchair or internet research. I found the Belize Retirement Guide to be an excellent resource for anyone considering either visiting or actually retiring to Belize. If you have ever dreamed, like I have, of retiring to a warm tropical climate where living is much more affordable than the U.S., then the Belize Retirement Guide will help you beyond anything else I have discovered before. Everything you need to know is available in this complete guidebook. Just be careful, however, because after reading the Belize Retirement Guide you may find yourself calling your travel agent the next day to book a flight and you just may be ready to make it a one way ticket.

They tell it like it is. Want to give up the rat race. Got an income. Just do it.

I know these people that wrote this book and everything in it is true, they love it there and have been there since the eighties belize is a paradise and the rent is cheap and the jungle is beautiful the water is blue and the sunsets divine anyone looking for diving you cant beat it or just plain laying around, you can do that too.