“I’ve met interesting people - and annoying people - I’ve done things that I would not have done under other circumstances.” “I have been so blessed to realize this dream,” she says, tearing up. She rented out her home in Canada and sold property to fund the coffee shop. (Her partner, Rob, who was retired when they met.) They bought a home, and on the property next to it built a bed and breakfast and a coffee shop (now worth an estimated $1.3 million altogether). Marlene Houghton and her partner, Rob, at their home in Belize.Īt first, she thought the relationship might just be casual - “I said to him, you know I’m heading out in November if you want to have fun this summer, then I’m in, but I am leaving” - but they fell in love, and moved to Belize together that year. “Sometimes the universe puts interesting things in your way,” she says with a laugh. Then something unexpected happened: After a couple of visits to Belize, the singleton booked her plane ticket in May 2013 to move to Ambergris Caye - a gorgeous, laid-back tropical island popular with tourists and expats - that November. Who does that - who goes to a Caribbean country in their 50s and says to hell with it? That was part of the appeal - why the hell not do it?” “When I die I want to go down kicking, say I tried it. “I was 56, I was on my own, my worst-case scenario was I go back home and pick up where I left off,” she explains. I just found it so fascinating and thought this might be an interesting place to do a coffee shop,” Houghton tells MarketWatch, adding that she’d wanted to open a coffee shop abroad for years because she’d found it was often hard to find a good cup of coffee when traveling. It’s raw - not like Hawaii or Mexico - people are very nice, it’s English-speaking.
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