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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The healthcare premiums they would have paid to TRS were still considerably less than non subsidized Obamacare.
The bureaucracy imposed by the government also takes in a pretty penny.
Oh, and by the way, if you drive an American made automobile, thank you for supporting my pension..........God bless you my brother!
Yes, the government is a big part of the cartels.
They control healthcare they control you.
I think you may be right-but there are fewer terrorist attacks in Austin than in Spain...
For now..........
The Filipino women want a man who will provide for them, and know that many of the local men work overseas so there is a shortage of educated men to marry. They tend to be protective and motherly to the men, and the men thrive on their love.
It's not just in the USA:
in Korea, about ten percent of the farmers marry Vietnamese or Filipina women because local women don't want to live on farms and have babies.
sometimes it doesn't work out, because the girl is a gold digger or the man is abusive, but that would be true of any marriage.
My wife and I are retred teachers and we dropped our teachers insurance because of the rise in premiums!!!
Well, that's part of the trick, isn't it? Many folks come down here and say they eat less processed foods, eat the plentiful fresh local fruits and vegetables, do a lot more walking and, as a result, lose weight and get off some or all of their maintenance meds. I wouldn't promise that for everyone, but some folks say they are much healthier than in the States with their CDC-disctated health care pill prison.
And if you need meds, most of them you can buy without a prescription. The exceptions are anti-biotics and addictive meds like opiods. Just walk in to a farmacia and buy them.
They live in Atlanta
Well, there were a lot of people who talked about it, but no one actually did it. Definitely not me.
I was too brief in my comment. I suspect the couple from Texas speak Spanish.
I was in the Marines.
I just heard people talk, too!........
EVERYTHING insurance related was cheaper before Obamacare. And they dare call it the "Affordable" Care Act!
I'm thinking most of the retirees that do this probably never had kids of their own.
When I flew into Panama City, I stayed in an area that used to flourish with casinos and still has a few. I was told by a friend there would be prostitutes along the sidewalks at night and most were from Columbia and Venezuela, trying to escape poverty. A certain percentage of the hookers were transvestites.
I got approached outside an Italian restaurant and I just said “Lo ciento, no tengo dinero” (”I’m sorry, I have no money”) and continued walking.
This same line also gets you past beggars.
“No tengo dinero!”.....works every time!.................
I have, I went there for a wedding. Economically speaking I can’t say. They wouldn’t let us spend a dime.
First thing, DON’T think Mexican! They are “Spanish” and don’t you forget it!
Best thing about Spain is that the women are gorgeous! NOT Latina, SPANISH! WOW!
*** So you have no problem paying taxes so Government employees can retire overseas on a Taxpayer paid pension at 48 and 55? ***
I don’t have a problem with people doing what is right for them,and kudos to them for being smart enough to retire early enough to enjoy it.
If he was in TX’s Teacher Retirement System, he paid in to that system, and can never draw Social Security.
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