Egypt and Syria have some of the lowest homicide rates? Somehow I doubt that, unless sectarian violence and terrorism isn't counted.PrimroseHill wrote:Look at Bahamas and its murder/homicide rates for a supposedly small tax free haven, full of ultra rich folks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... death_rate
Batam is SG's Tijuana? Not Guantamo?
1. Yes - I guess if you can live somewhere ok for the rest of your life. Hence some Subconts are so desperate to get SC? Maybe not. I know plenty of immigrant Aussies though who up and move back somewhere cheap as soon as their OAP kicks in. (Egypt and Lebanon being two examples).Beeroclock wrote:so perhaps the best place to retire is the same place where you spent the rest of your life?PNGMK wrote:Back to the topic....
I've met several couples over the years here and there who are convinced they've found the perfect retirement spot. They then spend all their dosh doing up some palace... only to ask me a decade later - "would you like to buy it? We're too far away from the kids/family/socialised medical care in Sri Lanka/Thailand/Spain".
I think for many retirement is a huge adjustment and potentially an epic anticlimax, like NYE x10. In the sense you work for 40+ yrs to earn the right to a twilight period of bliss playing golf etc etc, but then you get bored after a few months and find the things you thought would make you happy actually don't, and even worse you start to miss the daily dross that you used to complain about all the time....
^^This.PNGMK wrote: I do notice a lot of Singapore men hang onto the very bitter end in their jobs because of fears of being bored (not so much the money).
I haven't much of a sample pool upon which to comment. But, my FIL did the very same. Worked well beyond pensionable age (for no pressing reason) until he dropped.PNGMK wrote:I do notice a lot of Singapore men hang onto the very bitter end in their jobs because of fears of being bored (not so much the money).
Your 'buzzing' idea is very new-fangled and dot-commish. Pensioners all at liberty to set up successful .com businesses... sure!? You must be very young.Max Headroom wrote:The answer is: don't retire. At least not 100%. Make sure you have some money-spinner gig that isn't necessarily do-or-die, yet gives you enough incentive to keep you buzzed a few hours every day.
Plenty if things you can do online for a couple of hours that keep your brain revved, after which you head off for the links or go fishing or surfing or (for JR8) lawn bowling.
A German-Mexican perchance?Mexikaner wrote: I was in Mexico for the holidays with my Malaysian wife, and her opinion after the trip was: "I felt safer in Mexico than I do in my own country". And we were in Mexico City for a few days as well...
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I think you're 2/3rds+ way thereBeeroclock wrote:I think it's more the mind set. If you have a very fixed, black/white idea to demarcate your working life vs retirement, it seems a huge transition and a lot of people will struggle to cope with the magnitude of change. When you've been in certain routines and habits of working for 40+ years, then one fine day it all stops and you no longer have work colleagues, pay check, a mandatory reason to wake up on monday morning, etc etc.
Even bigger transition if coupled with a grand plan to go to an exotic location (Thailand etc) to enjoy the good life and make all the years of toil worthwhile, as per PNGMK's earlier post.
So I reckon "don't retire" is a better mind set, or at least a very gentle transition with part-time work or a small business, etc.
No. Our generation have it easy.Max Headroom wrote:Lofty, those starting from scratch the day they retire could find it a little bumpy eh. Better if you can get the ball rolling a bit before retirement.
BTW, it doesn't have to be .com.
But, yes, I'm very young.
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