Would you ever consider retiring to a different country?

AB Editor | 10:38 Wed 03rd May 2023 | ChatterBank

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Would you ever consider retiring to a different country?

No - 76 votes
49%
Yes - 44 votes
28%
Maybe - 22 votes
14%
I already did - 10 votes
6%
Who cares? - 3 votes
2%

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Old_Geezer

Have considered it but given the state of other countries, not worth the bother.

ToraToraTora

no, I already live in the best town in the best country in the world. The only way is down.

calmck

Lived and worked in US for 20 years. Now in Portugal 39 years

Peter Pedant

consider and reject

the conditions change. Ethpanya as Sqad found, they just change the law. Valencia they said - a lot of these land transfers are VOID. - oo-er Mrs.

France - you COULD commute to London from normandy. not now

Sudan - dirt cheap but far too hot - bang-bang chicken available

Egypt - god Peter your arabic is good enough for you to live here...Luxor - doesnt rain

Hopkirk

Does 'er indoors have to come too?

lankeela

Would love to live in Malta.

retrocop

My wife and I now both agree, in hindsight, that we would have liked to have emigrated in our younger years but were both tied down with parents still living and we weren't prepared to abandon them. My elder sister had no compunction after she graduated at University. She was off to Canada like a scalded cat. I recall my parents saying, having visited her, " It's no place for the elderly. When they get old in Canada there is no provision for them by the state unlike in our wonderful country" Too cold in the winter as well"!!
If my parents saw the state of our NHS and healthcare provision today they would do a Lazarus rise from the grave, and emigrate elsewhere.
My wife were well qualified to emigrate to Australia or New Zealand at the time as they wanted both qualified, British trained Nurses and Police officers.

retrocop

lankeela
//Would love to live in Malta.//

My word Lankeela. Even at the age of 73 I would move there tomorrow at the drop of a hat. Buy an apartment in Marsaloxx and get a fishing boat moored in the harbour. Malta ticks all my boxes but I would not liked to have lived there when Mintoff ruled the roost yet some Maltese believe he was a God.

lankeela

Love all the little coloured boats there. But my favourite place is Pretty Bay (Birżebbuġa).

retrocop

I know it well. Have you ever heard the Maltese Calypso song. Describes Malta pretty well. :-)

anneasquith

Winter months in Crete, all other time Scotland . Perfect.

Barsel

Not now, although my husband and I did consider it when we were first married and I'm glad now that we didn't.

Peter Pedant

oh they have black fly in winter in Crete do they?

50% of those going to Canada last.... one winter.
where I was Buchans Nfld, it started snowing 1 Oct and was goinna last until May

barry1010

We had exchanged contracts on a property in Spain when our circumstances drastically changed and we had to pull out.
So no, not now, but would have done

-SharonA-

I would love to live in the Caribbean. Get a nice beach apartment. Drink cheap rum & eat local seafood.

Vagus

No, not retiring abroad, but would consider moving abroad to where one of our children lives if something happened to other half. Or certainly spending half the year there.