Great places where retirement money goes a lot further

If that 401(k) isn’t puffing up as well as you’d like, International Living magazine

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may have an answer for you. In fact, seven answers: All great places to retire on a budget. There’s Lake Chapala in central Mexico; the Central Valley of Costa Rica; Placencia in Belize, where English is spoken; surprisingly advanced Panama City, Panama; the highland town of Cotacachi, Ecuador; the Honduran island of Roatan; and colonial Granada, Nicaragua.

A typical month’s cost-of-living budget for each, often including maid and gardener: $2,164 for Mexico; $1,079 for Costa Rica; $1,415 for Belize; $2,100 for Panama; $1,600 for Ecuador; $2,260 for Roatan; and $2,385 for Nicaragua.