🇦🇱 → 🇨🇷 Albania to Costa Rica
An Albanian retiree on $1,200/mo wants the Caribbean. The twist: Albanians need a consular visa just to visit Costa Rica — but the Pensionado line is $1,000/mo, and $1,200 clears it. See the full worked plan →
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Worked examples — real numbers, real verdicts
🇨🇦 → 🇵🇹 Canada to Portugal
A Canadian retiree with CAD $3,200/mo of CPP/OAS and pension income, CAD $450,000 net worth. Portugal's D7 line is €920/mo — but what about taxes now that the old NHR deal is closed, and what happens to their provincial health coverage? See the full worked plan →
The dream board
No plans yet? Just browse. This is the part where you fantasize — every card has the two numbers daydreams run on, and a door into the full guide when the daydream gets serious.
Costa Rica
Caribbean mornings, jungle afternoons — and a pension that suddenly feels generous.
Rent from ~$500/mo · money goes ~40% further than in the US
Mexico
Colour, markets, and lunch that lasts two hours — at a third of the cost of home.
Rent from ~$450/mo · money goes ~71% further than in the US
Panama
Colonial old town, big-city hospitals, mountain cool in Boquete — and a pension that comes with discounts.
Rent from ~$700/mo · money goes ~46% further than in the US
Portugal
Trams, tascas, and Atlantic light — the European life, at southern-European prices.
Rent from ~$850/mo · money goes ~52% further than in the US
Spain
Long lunches, late light, and a city that eats dinner when other countries go to bed.
Rent from ~$800/mo · money goes ~46% further than in the US
Thailand
Temple mornings, market nights, and a condo with a pool for the price of a parking spot back home.
Rent from ~$350/mo · money goes ~84% further than in the US
Colombia
Eternal spring in Medellín, Caribbean colour in Cartagena — Colombia is the under-priced chapter of Latin America.
Rent from ~$400/mo · money goes ~133% further than in the US
Ecuador
Spring in the Andes, dollars in your pocket, and a colonial city that moves at walking pace.
Rent from ~$350/mo · money goes ~100% further than in the US
Georgia
Balconied old town, mountain weekends, khachapi for lunch — Tbilisi is the budget daydream that lets you stay a year.
Rent from ~$400/mo · money goes ~126% further than in the US
Malaysia
Hawker breakfasts, heritage shophouses, and big-city medicine at provincial prices — Kuala Lumpur and Penang over-deliver.
Rent from ~$450/mo · money goes ~106% further than in the US
How MovePath stays honest
Checked, dated, sourced. Every income line, deposit and fee in our data carries the source we read it from and the date we checked it — printed right on your report, next to the figure. Some thresholds reset on a schedule (Portugal's D7 follows its minimum wage every January; Mexico's follow the UMA every February; Colombia's and Ecuador's follow their wage decrees) — the record says so, so you can see what's about to move.
Stale numbers get flagged, not served. If a figure hasn't been re-verified within six months, your report puts a visible caution on it instead of quietly presenting it as fresh.
When we can't verify, we say so. Some figures genuinely have no official published answer. Those ship as "verify with the consulate" — never as an invented number.
MovePath is guidance, not immigration legal advice. Immigration law changes — sometimes every January. Confirm your route with the destination's consulate or a licensed immigration professional before committing money to it.