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^_^ Grand Master

^_^   5,021

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Jordan. He came here to get his degree and for me to finish mine.

Where would you go if you could retire outside the US?

I hear a lot of good things about Costa Rica. Of course, I haven't actually researched my options. Way too early to retire. I have a sneaking suspicion my wife will want to retire in India if we go out of country.

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I hear a lot of good things about Costa Rica. Of course, I haven't actually researched my options. Way too early to retire. I have a sneaking suspicion my wife will want to retire in India if we go out of country.

Yeah, all places are more or less what you can make of them and how far your funds will go. I'm retiring when I go. It's not too early for you! If you had to go to India, where would you pick? All of the places I really like (from purely pictures) there have... issues.. like flooding lol.

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I hear a lot of good things about Costa Rica. Of course, I haven't actually researched my options. Way too early to retire. I have a sneaking suspicion my wife will want to retire in India if we go out of country.

An electrician buddy of mine purchased a house on the beach in Costa Rica for less than sixty g's. He has a little over two acre's with the ocean on one side, and a creek bordering another side of the property. Banana's, monkey's...the whole shabang.

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Your wife has nice titties :whistle:

:lol:

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^_^ Grand Master

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It's not too early for you!

:lol: yes it is, are you kidding me? i don't have nearly enough to retire yet :P

If you had to go to India, where would you pick?

If the decision were made to retire in India, then that decision would b based on where people we know are. Unlike in the U.S., you really do need to have contacts there to make it.

An electrician buddy of mine purchased a house on the beach in Costa Rica for less than sixty g's. He has a little over two acre's with the ocean on one side, and a creek bordering another side of the property. Banana's, monkey's...the whole shabang.

Sounds awesome!

Where would you retire?

I don't know. Costa Rica sounds good :lol:

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:lol: yes it is, are you kidding me? i don't have nearly enough to retire yet :P

If the decision were made to retire in India, then that decision would b based on where people we know are. Unlike in the U.S., you really do need to have contacts there to make it.

I don't know. Costa Rica sounds good :lol:

CR does sound awesome :)

Supposedly that is how Jordan works too unless you come with enough money. He's got the former though and we're OK for the latter I guess. We plan to get set up before we go.

I guess it depends on the version of retirement everyone has in mind. For me, that involves growing my own food so I don't really need to worry about that factor as much. I already got my skills and supply and we have the land. He did quite a bit of agriculture over there in his spare time off teaching and used it to feed both his extended family, parents, and donate to charity. So, we kind of have that covered. What we don't have covered is a house and another plot of land for the house and a nice olive grove. He wants to buy a piece of his sister's property for that then propegate the olives through root cuttings. The plan is there and it is basically the same plan the rest of them have LOL. He'll still be working though. He likes work, why ever I do not know though. He enjoys teaching at the University. Meh.

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A lot of gringos are retiring (or, simply moving) to Ecuador, especially the beautiful city of Cuenca, si man.

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10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

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meh...there's no mention of Alaska on that piece.

That doesn't sound like you... Did you forget about "evil imperialistic Russia"? Mr. Putin probably wants Alaska back also :rofl:

(kidding of course)

Frankly, if I were in my mid 60s today I don't think I'd even consider retiring in the United States.

My fiance said one that he wanted to retire either in Florida or somewhere in Russia (which is exactly the same climate, you know :lol: ).

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Bad_Daddy Grand Master

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That doesn't sound like you... Did you forget about "evil imperialistic Russia"? Mr. Putin probably wants Alaska back also :rofl:

(kidding of course)

My fiance said one that he wanted to retire either in Florida or somewhere in Russia (which is exactly the same climate, you know :lol: ).

http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results <---- Looks like Tsar Putin is too busy at home making Russia a great country to worry about little ol Alaska. :)

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ONA   133

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http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results <---- Looks like Tsar Putin is too busy at home making Russia a great country to worry about little ol Alaska. :)

That's why I've always considered Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands the best countries to live in :)

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