lucybelle Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Belize, Costa Rica and Panama all make it! Go Central America! http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efik45fgidg/thailand-17/?ss=personalfinance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!Mark! Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I'm not quite sure what sort of criteria Forbes used for a country to make their list. I do agree that all of the places are nice but Belgium, France & Italy? If I could afford to live in any of those countries I probably would have stayed in the US. Australia, New Zealand, India and Thailand are just too far away for me. If I want a dose of Aussie I can visit my nephew. His wife is from Sydney. Costa Rica is still at the top of my list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David C. Murray Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Not to worry about Australia, New Zealand and even Canada. When we were looking in 2005, none of those would even consider extending legal residency to retirees. They're not willing to take on the liabilities for their social welfare systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucybelle Posted January 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Yeah who knows how they came up with those places. I obviously haven't done too much research on places to retire (I'm in my mid-20s) but I do think we'd like to come back to CR. Well, if CR hasn't changed for the "worse" in the next 50 years or so (by that I mean price, cost of living, livability, crime, etc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!Mark! Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Not to worry about Australia, New Zealand and even Canada. When we were looking in 2005, none of those would even consider extending legal residency to retirees. They're not willing to take on the liabilities for their social welfare systems. You have to buy your way into Canada. At least that is what the hoards from Hong Kong did before it was returned to China. At that time I think it was something like $250k. No telling what it costs now, if such a thing is still offered. So many took the offer that my friends from Canada started calling Vancouver "Hongcouver". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David C. Murray Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 (edited) Well, the day in November of 2004 when George Bush was declared the winner in Ohio, I emailed Canadian Immigration and got a flat, "no exceptions"," NO!" No "ifs" . . . no "ands" and definitely no "maybes". Edited January 8, 2014 by David C. Murray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costaricafinca Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Canada is still seeking and accepting 'tradesmen' as landed immigrants as they have a shortage of skilled labour, so for the younger person out there there is still the opportunity to immigrate. In fact, many Irish workers have recently arrived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!Mark! Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 In fact, many Irish workers have recently arrived. If they are from N. Ireland it should be a shoe-in. IIRC immigration between Commonwealth countries is pretty easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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