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This episode ranks the top 5 cities in Belgium for gay retirement, focusing on affordability and LGBTQ+ friendliness.

Retirement but make it with beer and chocolate and pretzels! Belgium may not be the first country gay men think of when dreaming about retirement abroad. Spain gets the beaches. Portugal gets the Golden Visa glow-up. Mexico gets the “I can afford this with a side of guacamole.” Belgium gets beer, waffles, chocolate, bureaucracy, and weather that sometimes feels like central Pennsylvania has been emotionally unavailable since 1998. But don’t sleep on Belgium. For LGBTQ+ retirees, Belgium offers something a lot of countries are still trying to figure out: strong LGBTQ+ protections, marriage equality, adoption rights, anti-discrimination protections, hate crime laws, excellent healthcare, reliable trains, and easy access to the rest of Europe . In this episode of Queer Money , we’re ranking the top 5 cities and towns in Belgium for gay retirement abroad , with a focus on affordability, queer friendliness, lifestyle, healthcare access, transportation, and retirement fabulousness. And yes, as always, we’re slightly overweighting affordability. Because everybody loves a rainbow glow-up, but we also love lower rents and being able to afford our lives the other 364 days of the year. We…

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Host: Queer Money

Topics covered

• gay retirement
• LGBTQ+ protections
• affordability
• Belgium
• cities for retirement
• healthcare access
• queer friendliness

Keywords

• Belgium retirement
• LGBTQ+ cities
• affordable living
• healthcare Belgium
• queer lifestyle

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Places: Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Philadelphia, Leuven, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Liège

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