Posted on 11/08/2012 1:34:19 PM PST by Javeth
On the plus side people are genuinely friendly (unlike superficial southern hospitality), and the women are hot.
Did you get deported to Brazil as punishment?
Malta might be a possibility It has a stable republican government and is centrally located. English is widely spoken, and the Muslim population is small.
My advice to you is move fast.
One of the OPM investigators that comes in for law checks is planning to retire in Cebu City, Philippines. He says the cost of living is very cheap and can get property there for around $100,000. he says there is a magazine called International Living that covers all of this stuff.
Work and wife brought me here. Draw your own conclusions.
I expected if Baraq won, the necessary discussion on FR will be “bolt or revolt”.
My sis-in-law is from Pampanga, Philippines and my brother married her in Cebu. It’s an expat’s dream. Extremely cheap and it’s like Miami but gosh, the property taxes are low. Lots of Americans there. That’s where the Phil call center for Paypal, AT&T and other multinatl corps are located.
My best friend from HS now lives in Sao Paulo! The most conservative guy ever and yet he chose to live there. He was reading Ayn Rand in Jr. High, if that tells you anything. So I couldn’t see him selling everything off and moving to socialist Club Med, but he did. I guess when you have enough money to retire at 40, anywhere is probably a nice place. He abandoned the US in 2009 post Obama and has no regrets. Chatting online on election night all he could do was tell me “Told ya so”. He now has several hobby businesses, employs locals and runs a cash based/underground mini-empire, but mainly lives off his previous investments and sale of business here in the states. Pays zero taxes, but claims makes up for them in friendly bribes to friendly officials. The the Brazil way. He enjoys the freedom, the lifestyle, and yes, the women.
So, based on my very limited knowledge, Brazil would be great if you already have oodles of money.
That said, you may be far better off than I.
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Invest only where there is the rule of law.
“On the plus side people are genuinely friendly (unlike superficial southern hospitality), and the women are hot.”
Ha, true, can’t help but notice that even if pretending not to around the Missus. I only had a couple brief stays in Brazil decades ago when the business was barely off the ground, among my first trips outside the USA. Even then, and probably affected by my status then as an unmarried guy, I wondered if the gorgeousness of the women compared to the United States and most any other country could make up for all the flip-sides in Brazil. I’d heard about so many expats working there these days that I thought the flip-sides might have picked up, too, but it’s one of the places I admittedly know far less about. I guess people manage somehow.
Thanks for the details.
The questions to be pondering are "When do you join a militia?" "At what point do you start firing on your neighbors?" "When do you say enough is enough?"
The Founders found a point they would not budge. Where is that point? Lincoln drew a line in the sand and the south gladly crossed it. No one wants to see this type of situation come upon the nation, but how far will we go? It would be easier to go to Belize, but how long before SHTF there? I would be in Alaska if I could, but I would lose my wife in that move.
I’ve been doing business in Argentina for more that 10 years, and have developed some good friendships there.
It IS a great place, and the people are wonderful. But, I think it’s far too unstable to count on.
I’ve been doing some looking at Panama. It seems to be a pretty interesting place.
I’ve been doing business in Argentina for more that 10 years, and have developed some good friendships there.
It IS a great place, and the people are wonderful. But, I think it’s far too unstable to count on.
I’ve been doing some looking at Panama. It seems to be a pretty interesting place.
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