*If older people weren’t favored by the benefits system, older people would bolt the USA(or UK) as soon as they reached retirement age, or way before.*
Fine. They move to Thailand and put up with the heat. A lot easier to get laid too. Women? They’d like it there if there was no reason to be afraid. Send their SSI checks there. Live like kings and queens.
“Then move to Thailand and put up with the heat.”
I was in Spain.
In southern Spain I would sometimes ask a question in my miserable Spanish and get asked if I happened to speak English by a UK expat.
If I wasn’t getting Medicare, I probably would have filled out a Lebanese residency application.
They have air conditioning in Thailand, just as in Florida. And I suspect household help is cheaper in Thailand.
Asshat!