10 incredibly cheap paradise places where you can start a new life
More and more people are making money online. This means that they can no longer live in dirty, noisy, cold and excessively expensive megacities. If your job is to sit at the computer all day, then you probably don't have to live and work where you have achieved some success.
In Moscow, the atmosphere is fussy and suffocating, in New York or London - very expensive. Ideal places to live are usually located where they are not sought at all. Here are ten heavenly places on earth that are perfect for starting a new life. A life in which you will work on the Internet, and relax in an incredibly beautiful and cozy atmosphere.
Avarua, Cook Islands
Formally, these islands are part of New Zealand, but from this archipelago they are located 2008 km to the northeast. The local tropical beaches are not inferior to the Maldives or Seychelles, but you can rent housing here for $ 130 per month.
The locals are Polynesian aborigines, and they are not spoiled by tourists at all. No more than 100 thousand foreigners come here a year. For comparison: Hawaii attracts 8 million tourists a year.
What can I do here? Watch whales, go hiking, enjoy incredible landscapes.
So what's the catch? Foreigners cannot buy real estate on the island. But they can rent it for 60 years. To become a full-fledged citizen of this planet, you will have to live here for several years and get a special permit from the authorities.
This fabulous town is located in the Czech province of Bohemia. The whole city is like one huge medieval castle. All the streets in it are paved. Renaissance-style fairs are regularly held here, as well as an incomparable Rose Festival. A three-course lunch for two here costs $20 all year round, and an apartment can be rented for $ 400 per month. And there is also the Vltava River — an ideal platform for lovers of rafting.
Koh Tonsai, Cambodia
It is a small island in the south of Cambodia. A real paradise of jungles and beaches. Almost no one lives here, except for a few fishing families. So it will be possible to find a suitable bungalow for ridiculous money.
What's the catch? Well, this is not a "children's" clean beach island where you will lie under an umbrella for days on end. The wild local beach is sometimes decorated with packs of stray dogs or other inhabitants of the forest. But only here you can feel how far you are from civilization.
Right in the middle of Mexico is the cool culturally developed city of Guanajuato. A great apartment here can be rented for $ 150-200 a month, a glass of beer at the bar costs less than $ 1, and a movie ticket is a measly $ 3.
Ray Bradbury wrote the story "Next in Line" about his experience of living here. It also hosts a famous art festival called Cervantino. He was named after the author of the novel about Don Quixote.
30 kilometers west of the mainland of Panama lies an amazing archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Once a huge amount of pearls were mined here. There was a time when the most powerful pirates hid from the authorities on these islands. Now this place is a haven of magnificent resorts for locals.
You can rent a house on the seashore here for only $ 300 per month. An ideal place for self-imposed exile.
By the way, three seasons of the TV series "Stay Alive" were filmed here. So the places in terms of picturesqueness are among the most impressive on the planet.
The southern part of the Goa coast is a place that allows you to ride elephants right on the beach. You can buy a bottle of wine here for $ 0.5, get a haircut for $ 0.6, and rent a shack on the seashore for $ 120 per month. Seriously, what else do you need?
This part of Goa is quite deserted, and the locals are not as spoiled by tourists as in other parts of the Indian coast. And there are almost no hippies in Agonda with their stupid plastic glasses. But there are a large number of temples and places for yoga classes.
This place is located in the valley of the river of the same name in the northern part of Bulgaria. This is the best Riviera on the Black Sea coast. It is as beautiful here as in France, but a bottle of beer costs only $ 0.8. The population is only 200 thousand people.
Interestingly, this city has seen the ups and downs of at least half a dozen world empires. And an apartment here can be rented for only $ 200 per month. The only drawback is the relatively poorly developed infrastructure.
The southeastern coast of Vietnam is famous for the fact that there are 11 thousand hectares of rainforest on it. And this is probably the best place in Asia for diving and spearfishing: there is a huge barrier reef here. And here it is free from tourists even on weekends.
Therefore, housing here can be found for $ 150-200 per month. However, you will have to live in close contact with the locals. Get ready for them to share beach spots with you.
The southern tip of Albania is an ideal place for a quiet life. Near a small town and Butrint National Park. The climate is Mediterranean, local products are olive oil and tangerines. Unlike neighboring Greece, Italy or even Croatia, it is very cheap here: beer costs 90 cents per bottle, housing costs $ 100-120 per month.
Eat seafood (they sell 30 types of fish here, the average cost of a dish in a cafe is $ 6), drink cheap wine ($ 6 per bottle), ride catamarans and you will find that there will be no more tourists here in five years.
Here are some of the best mountain slopes in South America. The Andes after all. Skiing is possible all year round, and renting a house will cost only $ 300 per month. Rich tourists live on the slopes of the mountains, and experienced ones live in the villages at their foot.
There is only one problem: it is almost always winter here. But someone loves her, right?