I would like to to know the top countries where an american could go
and live for next to nothing in US Dollars. In other word what are the
10 countries in the world where the US dollar is worth the most.

Hello.

There's a book available called "The World's Cheapest Destinations: 21
Countries Where Your Dollars Are Worth a Fortune" (2002) by Tim
Leffel.

The 21 countries listed are: Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos,
Vietnam, India, Nepal, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Bulgaria,
Hungary, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Bolivia,
Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

source: A customer review on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591132495/

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Also see: 

"11 Places Where Your Shrinking Greenbacks Still Go A Long Way"
http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/58/Save_Money_Overseas.html

The countries listed there are: Argentina, Bulgaria, Crete, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Thailand,
Venezuela.

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"your dollars" expatriate

I hope this helps.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 27 Aug 2004 13:04 PDT

I should just note that I didn't mean to imply that Crete is a
"country."  It is, of course, part of Greece.

Thanks for the quick work...

Just a slight addition. I was recently in Peru for a couple of weeks,
and my dollars worked quite well fo me there. I converted a little
over a hundred dollars, and received 360 soles back. Over the course
of my entire trip, I only spent about 150 of them.

texbigcat:
Thank you for the tip.
-juggler