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It sux.

Tell me where in the world it IS different? I have spent an inordinate amount of time reading about other places to live, none of which would have me for a citizen and the citizens of which have less personal individual liberty than we do here. They often also have much less personal security, much less ability to control that security and the layers of nannydom start in the neighborhood block and extend all the way up to their national levels.

People abroad may like individual Americans, but to them, we are all Yanks. They have Starbucks or something like it, nuclear bombs, VAT as well as property and income taxes, all of it higher than ours for what they receive. All have public debt, fuel poverty, horrid death panel national health services and national governments working hard to replace the native born with immigrants of all sorts.

I can’t buy land in many of those places, only lease it and the terms can be changed at whim overnight. This is how business is conducted in many other places, as well. In some island nations, one person controls each imported commodity and if they wake up in a mood, there is suddenly none to be had. These are places where my idea of comfort food can be impossible to find or can be priced at about 5-6x what it is here, while I can go to several stores, even out here in Flyover Country, and buy imported food items for about what the people pay in its native place and sometimes for less.

I am not making an argument for Nirvana or Utopia. I am simply saying there is no other place I’d rather live and it can be as bad or worse, elsewhere.

It is disturbing to read, day after day, FReepers declaring they won’t shop somewhere because some CEO is a prog. Or they won’t watch a film, read a book,purchase a product or service, etc, etc. I imagine these folks committing suicide when they realize that some water companies, some toll roads, some power companies, some food conglomerates are owned, staffed and managed by foreign liberals. Having always been a minority or having been mistaken for a minority of one sort or another, it seems pretty futile, to me.

I am an American. This is where I have spent over 7 decades. I have a fairly nice life as do my friends and family. I have traveled. I am always happy to come home.

I live in Nicaragua, own a beach house and an 8 acre farm with house.
Unlike Mexico or Honduras you OWN land here, it s not a 99 year lease.

My spouse and I live on 1000.00 a month for everything.

My property taxes on each house was 300.00

Less BS here...my advice to people bitching about the USA and are approaching retirement, there are many very affordable options overseas...don’t kid yourself thinking that medical is supreme in the USA...it isn’t what is was and is only going to get worst.

Many USA doctors are moving overseas to get in on the medical vacation boon.

Many countries in this hemisphere are getting very modern hospitals to meet this demand.

Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Chile are all booming countries and offer quite a bit for the retiree dollar.

Better think outside the box, because the USA is crumbling and they have NO PLANS in having aging baby boomers around any longer the they have too.

ObamaCare will gauge a retirees finances to determine if keeping you alive to milk out more taxes or heather you are too much of a burden of social services.

Get out, live on your SS in a country where the money still has buying power and enjoy your nestveggbif you had saved one.

This is where I have spent over 7 decades. I have a fairly nice life as do my friends and family.

That's great for you.

Too bad the young people and future American generations won't be able to say the same. For the most part, they'll be left with massive choking debt, decline, turmoil and more government control and corruption.

You called me a, "Grumpy Cat"?

It's unfortunate people like you have lived this long, yet are unable to distinguish the difference between a passive minor complaint, and the real brutal unvarnished truth.