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‘Health care will keep us from going back...’ says Texas couple who retired to Spain on $2k a month
www.marketwatch.com ^ | Published: Oct 17, 2019 1:18 p.m. ET | By Catey Hill

Posted on 10/17/2019 10:51:54 AM PDT by Red Badger

Though they ‘love America,’ this couple has chosen to put their roots down in the coastal town of Denia in Spain.

Call ‘em Texpats.

Kevin and Susan Bryant, 55 and 48, spent most of their lives in Texas, recently in retiree hot spot Austin. But “when Austin became a mini Silicon Valley, we were priced out,” Kevin, a now-retired history teacher and principal, tells MarketWatch.

History buff Kevin says he’d always wanted to live in Europe — “in a castle, specifically, but I let that part go,” he jokes — and began hunting for where the couple might retire on his educator’s pension. They considered more than a dozen countries, finally settling on Spain for a variety of reasons, including its relative affordability, good health care, and that his teacher’s pension could qualify as income to help him get residency there.

To find the right spot, they toured Spain, rejecting Barcelona because it was too big; Tarragona because it was too far north (they wanted somewhere a little warmer); and Peñiscola, because, though they liked it, Susan jokes, “I could never tell my mother I lived in a town with that name.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: 2020election; abortion; aliens; austin; denia; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; infanticide; kevinbryant; mediawingofthednc; medicareforall; obamacare; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; spain; susanbryant; texas
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To: proxy_user

Average salary of a doctor in Spain: $45K. Number of knee surgeons driving Ferraris: 0.

I would rather the surgeon working on me have a nice Ferrari or two then than work all year for 45K.


101 posted on 10/17/2019 2:27:03 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: sockmonkey
If he was in TX’s Teacher Retirement System, he paid in to that system, and can never draw Social Security.

If he had enough quarters he could draw SS, but at a reduced rate. He would have to make Windfall Elimination Provision(WEP) calculations.

102 posted on 10/17/2019 2:32:35 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: EVO X

I have a neighbor in the TRS, and she has griped about WEP, and not being able to draw SS for jobs she worked on weekends.

Come to think of it, my other neighbor in TRS has griped about it, too.


103 posted on 10/17/2019 2:40:33 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: sockmonkey

Great timing too! Just in time for a Spanish Civil war with Basques. They’re gonna have a lot of fun.


104 posted on 10/17/2019 2:46:59 PM PDT by USAF1985 (Life doesnÂ’t give you seatbelts)
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To: sockmonkey

Working on the weekends isn’t going to cut it for SS. If they would have worked full time during the summer break it is likely they would have enough hours or close to it at retirement time.


105 posted on 10/17/2019 2:49:33 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: Hot Tabasco

Say hi to Jimmy Hoffa sometime


106 posted on 10/17/2019 3:03:29 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Taxpayers BAIL OUT underperforming pensions. All the time. Every community.


107 posted on 10/17/2019 3:04:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: LadyDoc

I have recently entered the Catholic dating scene and have located two seemingly compatible divorced or widowed Filipinas right off the bat — within 150 miles here in my rural area of U.S. — would like to marry both of them!


108 posted on 10/17/2019 3:19:46 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: a fool in paradise
Say hi to Jimmy Hoffa sometime

Ya might want to educate yerself son, it wasn't just the unions that profited from company sponsored pension plans.............

But I do thank ya fer yer support..........I truly do!

Give me yer address and I'll send you a thank you card this Christmas..........LOL!

109 posted on 10/17/2019 3:26:04 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Red Badger

just wait until they need open heart surgery or something like Humira for the rest of their lives ...


110 posted on 10/17/2019 3:57:00 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Red Badger

we don’t need no stinkin half azz citizens anyway. Live in the dirty, tiny spaces people call home over there.


111 posted on 10/17/2019 4:01:53 PM PDT by Pilated (.)
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To: USAF1985

I’m Basque. And Spanish.
No war man.


112 posted on 10/17/2019 4:06:18 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: USAF1985

US Civil War II may be more likely.
But then US expats will fin that their US pensions and 401K/IRAs will be worth nothing.


113 posted on 10/17/2019 4:08:27 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: Gamecock

Didn’t age well. My mother is 70 and she looks better than her.


114 posted on 10/17/2019 4:10:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Texan5

Its quite usual for Basques abroad to retire to the homeland.
My cousin, a couple of uncles, my grandfather, my godfathers wife and daughters, etc.
That after careers as expats in the US, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Britain, etc.


115 posted on 10/17/2019 4:15:10 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: EVO X

WEP will get you even if you do have enough hours or quarters or whatever line the SSA decides to feed you this week. Hubby’s check is $405 a month before they take their $135 a month for Medicare out. We have private insurance but they don’t care and we still get to pay that $135. It is all a big scam.


116 posted on 10/17/2019 4:32:29 PM PDT by mom aka the evil dictator
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To: posterchild
RE:LIVING OVERSEAS:

I live with my husband's extended family in a medium sized town in the provinces. I am the only white lady in town, except for occasional missionaries trying to convert the heathen who come thru now and then. (/SARCASM).

But what I am pointing out: When you get older, family and connections mean a lot. Maybe not so much to men, but for women. So moving overseas means leaving your kids and grandkids behind, and of course, when you get sick you are on your own.

117 posted on 10/17/2019 4:44:20 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: buwaya

Since my ancestors left Basque country in Spain starting before 1600, they don’t have any connection or loyalty to Spain-the ones who left were rebels anyway, and most of us still are, but I’m sure it is not the same for more recent immigrants.

I went to college with a Spanish Basque here on a student visa-when he heard a rumor from home about another Basque uprising, he packed up his stuff, bought a ticket home and told us all he was going back to join the revolution-no one ever heard from him again-apparently the Basque disdain for the Spanish government hasn’t changed much in a few 100 years...


118 posted on 10/17/2019 4:47:47 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys-you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: dhs12345

Their health bennies are very generous, too.

Something isn’t right here....


119 posted on 10/17/2019 4:49:19 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: sockmonkey
he paid in to that system,

He paid a pittance compared to what he's getting back, both in terms of pension and health bennies.

This story smells.

120 posted on 10/17/2019 4:52:34 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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