{"id":3017,"date":"2013-05-19T22:24:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T02:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2013-09-16T07:42:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T11:42:23","slug":"making-a-move-abroad-and-working-there-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=3017","title":{"rendered":"Making a Move Abroad, and Working There, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3images\"<\/a>WHEN Patrice Wynne shuttered her independent bookstore, Gaia, in Berkeley, Calif., and retired, she knew three things. She wanted to move to a place where she could slow down the tempo of her life, and it was cheaper to live, but where she could continue to work in some fashion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI promised myself \u2014 I\u2019m not going to slip into going to cocktail parties and playing tennis,\u201d Ms. Wynne, 61, said. \u201cI wanted engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what she got. Three years ago, along a cobblestone street in the center of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, she opened\u00a0Abrazos<\/a>, a 650-square-foot retail shop selling colorful Mexican-themed fabric aprons, kitchen and cooking accessories, handbags and clothing, all sewn by a dozen local seamstresses.<\/p>\n

Simply retiring abroad has become old news, as people seek cheaper places to live and to slash health care costs while enjoying more temperate climes. But now enjoying a \u201cworking retirement,\u201d like Ms. Wynne\u2019s, appears to be gaining traction with expats, as it has in the United States.<\/p>\n

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