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.

as an Englishman who is currently on business in the USA i feel i must ask this.
As M.D and travelling executive of HuGe LoNg BeLtS Ltd i have nothing but praise for the USA, my business is thriving and due to the USA profits i may now retire.
Thanks Yanks

Sid…this is amazing…and I suspect most unexpected on your part…

You have brought out a bunch of Hate America Firsters!

America is the best country because of:

1 - Liberty
2 - Federalism
3 - Rule of Law
4 - An insight offered by the Frenchman Marbois when discussing the price for the Louisiana Purchase (paraphrasing): "Think about what you are buying…you are not just buying land, you are buying no neighbors…no disputes."

These things make our *government* the best…people are no different anywhere.

as an Englishman who is currently on business in the USA i feel i must ask this.
As M.D and travelling executive of HuGe LoNg BeLtS Ltd i have nothing but praise for the USA, my business is thriving and due to the USA profits i may now retire.
Thanks Yanks

America needs to drop its obsession with being number one. It is time for the United States to become a member of the world community rather than a murderous bully. Obscene over-consumption has become a hallmark of the United States. While not all Americans fall prey to Madison Avenue’s propaganda glamorizing gluttony, many do. People of other industrialized nations enjoy a respectable standard of living without consuming a quarter of the world’s resources (while representing only 5% of the world’s population). Other nations face reprisals and penalties for the violation of international law. Without regard for justice, the United States wields international law like a club or blatantly defies it, depending on what best suits American interests at the time. Ongoing support of repressive regimes (like Saudi Arabia’s) to further America’s economic interests, unflinching support of its proxy military enforcer in the Middle East (Israel), disregard for the plight of the Palestinians, and hypocrisy over who gets to join the "nuclear club" are but a few more examples of how America’s government engenders more abhorrence of America and invites continued terrorism.

I’m looking to reitre in the Philippines because I met a lady friend. I was told the country was the best to retire to because it is clean and cheap to live their and safe and supposidly it’s the friendliest nation in Asian…what do you think?

You are asking this in a location where the retired people will be prejudiced, Travel Thailand.
Why don’t you ask it at the Travel Phillipines.
http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/;_ylt=AkIlfeeRwsXYLhq.ep7YhlgV7RR.;_ylv=3?link=list&sid=396545493

This is my help from Washington, D.C. United States of America and Pattaya, Thailand.
Please pick an answer as the best answer, even if it is not mine.