Starting a new life

Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Ambergris Caye, Belize. Very affordable, good and cheap healthcare system, nice people and safe. If you don't mind learning Spanish, check out Medellin Columbia.

goa

Mauritius, Maldives and Zanzibar are cheaper for u to access and very good.

Goa indeed is a good suggestion, but I'd like to explore options outside India.

All these places demand you to get a job + sponsor in order to apply for a residency. I can't travel here as a tourist and then setup a business & then apply for residency (not legitimately).

I don't think you could do much better than what you're already doing, sun.surf. Go somewhere (anywhere) and find a job that you can do, get a Work Permit, and just go to work. What have you got to lose? In my observation, no country in the world allows strangers to immigrate and set up in business in competition with citizens. At least, I've never heard of one.

You've probably picked a good place. My wife and I lived in Vila in the '70s, and enjoyed it. That was before independence, and things changed after that event. Still... It was a quaint place, then, with some quaint customs. I wrote a few blog-posts about it many years later. Here's one that might amuse you.
https://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2014 … rides.html