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#52 – Selecting Your Ideal Retirement Location with Gilen Chan and Gene Preudhomme

If you could retire anywhere, where would it be? What are the main variables that would help you determine where to go? If you’re pursuing the answers to these questions, this podcast episode can help!

This week Wes sits down with the duo, Gilen Chan and Gene Preudhomme, a couple in their fifties and hosts of the weekly podcast, Retire There. They discuss how to find the perfect retirement location, talk through their own podcast process, share retirement location stories from their podcast listeners, reveal where they are in their own lives, debate the difficulties of moving away from family, and uncover where they plan to retire.

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