A website to help boomers retire abroad
There’s a perfect storm brewing for the estimated 75 million babyboomers marching toward retirement — and it has nothing to do withSouth Florida’s weather.
Soaring healthcare costs, spiraling real estate prices and abeleaguered social security system are threatening seniors’ ability toquit their jobs and kick back.
But Scott Avirett, Steven Sikes and Eric Anderson think they’ve hitupon an idea to help put the glow back into the golden years.
The three men — all cousins — are launching BoomerScape a websitethat will help adventurous seniors resettle in foreign countries wherethe weather is mild and dollars stretch further.
”Boomers just aren’t going to be able to have the kind ofretirement they would expect in places like Arizona and Florida,” saidAvirett. “We wanted to develop this customized platform for helpingfacilitate a dream — essentially for boomers to dive in and live thedream with a high level of quality of life at a much lower cost.”
The concept won second prize in this year’s Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge.
While countries such as Costa Rica and Mexico are already hot spotsfor U.S. retirees, BoomerScape plans to help pioneer lesser knowndestination such as Belize, the Dominican Republic and Argentina.