A website to help boomers retire abroad

There's a perfect storm brewing for the estimated 75 million baby boomers marching toward retirement -- and it has nothing to do with South Florida's weather.

Soaring healthcare costs, spiraling real estate prices and a beleaguered social security system are threatening seniors' ability to quit their jobs and kick back.

But Scott Avirett, Steven Sikes and Eric Anderson think they've hit upon an idea to help put the glow back into the golden years.

The three men -- all cousins -- are launching BoomerScape a website that will help adventurous seniors resettle in foreign countries where the weather is mild and dollars stretch further.

''Boomers just aren't going to be able to have the kind of retirement they would expect in places like Arizona and Florida,'' said Avirett. ``We wanted to develop this customized platform for helping facilitate a dream -- essentially for boomers to dive in and live the dream with a high level of quality of life at a much lower cost.''

The concept won second prize in this year's Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge.

While countries such as Costa Rica and Mexico are already hot spots for U.S. retirees, BoomerScape plans to help pioneer lesser known destination such as Belize, the Dominican Republic and Argentina.

Read more in the Miami Herald

The site isn't really operations yet.