Buenos Aires, Argentina

There is no road rage. It’s accepted that, as they say, “Signs are suggestions. A stop sign is an idea.” Still, cabs are so cheap that some people take a cab both ways to work each day.

In addition, the highways are well maintained. And some laws really work well for drivers. And, if you are forced to wait for more than two minutes before you can pay at a toll, for example, cars begin to beep and the tolls are opened so that traffic doesn’t back up.

Buenos Aires is also known as the Paris of Latin America. And, with few exceptions, anything available in Paris can also be found in Buenos Aires, at lesser cost and with a Latin edge.

This includes five-star restaurants, nightclubs, comedy clubs, open-air cafes, world-class live theater and ballet, art galleries, museums, English-language bookstores, indoor shopping malls and outdoor antiques markets, European-style parks, plazas, and gardens, plus classic-style architecture of the kind found in but a handful of cities around the world.

In short, you can embrace a retirement filled with art and history, culture and interesting company, but you can’t afford Paris, look to Buenos Aires.

It has a tremendous variety and diversity of restaurants, shopping, museums, and parks and does qualify as a walking city—though it’s too big to walk across in one go.