Where Do You Go For Good, Inexpensive Food These Days?

An essential ingredient of Living The Semi-Retired Life

One thing you need—or at least I need in my iteration of the semi-retired life—is a low cost of living. However, don’t mistake this for some extreme form of minimalism or even frugality.

For me, it means two primary things—

• I want to keep my core, fixed expenses as low as possible, ideally bringing some of them, particularly housing and transportation, to near zero.

• I want to be able to spend freely, though within reason on my wants.

Part of accomplishing the second bullet point is finding great places to eat and drink around the world—and where you live—that deliver on multiple levels, but don’t break the bank.

So you can visit regularly.

I have an example from Los Angeles. I hope you’ll add one or more of your own in the comments.

Ideally, I’d love to compile a trusted list of cheap, but good eats from around the world. Trusted because it’s compiled by paying newsletter subscribers. Let’s go for it.

This forms the crux of our discussion today supplemented by a thought or three on the low cost of living versus frugality dynamic.