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Alina Tugend

SHOCKING: When the world is your retirement home - What They Never Told You

Wide shot smiling senior couple relaxing and enjoying sunset at luxury desert camp during vacation in Morocco (Image credit: Getty Images)

Say you've lived in a lovely community for decades. You own your home, you have a great circle of friends and family not too far away. Then you retire — and blow it all up.

You sell and give away everything. The house, the cars, the furniture, most of your clothes and the items collected over a lifetime. And hit the road in Peru. South Korea. Romania.

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