Fun, friendly and laid back, Belize offers expats an affordable Caribbean lifestyle with all the amenities of modern American life. Located just a short two-hour plane ride from Houston and with a friendly dollar exchange rate, Belize is a convenient retirement destination with bargain beachfront properties. See the following article from International Living for more on this.
Belize beachfront property
It’s early afternoon and I’m flying 10,000 feet above the Caribbean. The other 12 passengers are a mixture of locals…and expats who came here for a few days and never left.

This is Belize—seductive, easy, friendly. Now that I’ve been here a few days, I’m wondering if a return flight is really necessary.

My little beach hut in Placencia is $80 a night, and could comfortably sleep a family of four. It has wireless Internet, TV, microwave, coffee machine. Although I don’t think I’ll get a chance to use any of it—too much beach to explore to watch TV…

…and about 60 seconds along the beach is a restaurant that serves great coffee and plays Fleetwood Mac . A few miles beyond that is the beach resort owed by Francis Ford Coppola—it’s $200 to $400 a night to stay there.

Belize—and Placencia in particular—is a fun, friendly, laid-back, easy place, that, for some reason, not many people seem to know about.