When he turned 70, Marsha Scarbrough realized that in the United States (USA) it was almost impossible to survive with what was going to collect retirement pension. After a work career of more than 20 years in Hollywood as a production assistant, he invested part of his savings in buying two houses and be able to cope with his retirement expenses. But the plan did not go as expected. Today, many older people change the country of residence to take advantage of the most advantageous conditions of retirement in Spain, as is the case of Diane, which left the United Kingdom.
Therefore, after knowing Spain and falling in love with Andalusia on a trip, he decided to move to Madrid, where he now charges the social security retirement pension and lives in a quite baggy way. A Radical Life Change because, with 63 years, as she says on the blog TravelandleisureI was in bankruptcy and a process of mortgage execution.
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To this, he had to add a debt that he had with a friend and that he had not yet paid. Therefore, when it was time to request the pension in the United States, he realized that it was impossible to survive like this and made a drastic decision. In his favor, as he explains in the article, that he had not married, he had no children and now no housing in property.
“I knew I should retire in a country where I could live on my pension”
“I realized that, if I ever retired, it would have to be in a country where I could live from the pension,” he says. Because when he fulfilled the age of retirement, he decided to continue working and carried out a course to get the Tesol Certificate (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and achieved a fleeting job in Mexico to teach exchange students.
There she met a Spanish teacher who invited her to spend a few days in Madrid. When he arrived in Spain he fell in love with the city, although he acknowledges that what most caught his attention is that “it was cheaper than many South American countries.” In addition to the cost of life, he studied the public transport network, weather, food and customs.
Therefore, upon returning to the United States he began with all the procedures to move to Spain. They asked for varied documentation, among which was a letter in which he said he had no contagious disease.
“My pension in the United States barely reached the minimum”
When he returned to the US, before moving to Spain, he was investigating how much he was going to collect pension. “As soon as I reached the economic threshold, so I started collecting documents, I wrote to the FBI and asked for an apostille. Then, I hired medical insurance in Spain, printed the passport and paid the rates.”
A little later, it was Flying to Madrid With everything he had, involved in four suitcases. At 30 days I already had the documentation I needed to register in Madrid and start a new life.