Best Country to Retire

1) What country do you live in?
2) What do you like about living there?
3) What don’t you like about living there?
4) Where would you rather live (or what is your second choice)?

I’ll start:

I live in Canada.

I like the unrealized opportunity it presents. I like the values that are praised here - modesty, integrity, loyalty - and our idealistic policies. I like how we can maintain a public healthcare system with relatively low taxes. The value of family over wealth. Our attitude with the rest of the world.

I don’t like the cost of realizing that opportunity. The education system, while excellent, is extremely costly. The costs of making it big. This lends an image of not the best country to realize a dream. Unless your dream is family-oriented. Our image of insignificance, due to our small population.

Canada would be my first choice (I’ve only traveled to the US, so maybe I don’t know better yet). I’d like to visit New Zealand for the scenery, might be a nice place to retire. European countries for this history, although I’m not sure about living there for economic reasons.

Yours?
Yeah, i guess asking this on the American board isn’t asking for variety lol
Oh, pardon me bmovie…

I live in Fantasy Land

I like how we can maintain a public healthcare system with relatively low taxes.

I don’t like how people can insult my intelligence about a place I live, work and prosper in.

If I had a choice, I’d live in….Canada. Since according to you it is so much like Fantasy Land anyway
1. USA
2. I like all the food and how people come to together were you live and everyone can just be good friends.
3. Wars, and some very mean people.
4.AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What state, country, island, where?

Cebu City, PHilippines

I practice my profession there, I retired and I came back to Romania 2009; I found there the most toxic environment. I have enough money to buy a home in Europe, where should I go, what is the best country for a retired couple of intellectuals?

Before you settle any place, travel around.
You will find the west of Europe much more expensive than the east, and little villages on average, less enlightened than bigger towns.
But it is impossible to tell you where you will feel at home, as it is a very personal thing.

Traveling round you can feel the situation before you dish out the amount of money needed to buy a house.

A way to taste the water before even traveling to a place it to contact the expat communities. All countries with substantial English language workers have a web community where they share knowledge, most of those can be found by googling on Expat and the name of the country.
They also have knowledge on who much a house will cost, what to expect to pay for living cost, not just the averages, but real live experience.