[rbg81]

Yeah. For my $$, he went on too long about the cheap booze and young women. Every now and then I read Expat profiles on various “retirement heavens”. The Phillipines is one. Some of the profiles echo what he says. But others talk about the fact that many Fillipinos hate Americans, the women are great—until you marry them, the healthcare is substandard, the streets are dirty and people think nothing of pissing in public. And lots of crime. Not too appealing.

[Tax-chick]

My daughter, Seaman-Gunner Anoreth USCG, has been to several “popular” Asian and Latin American locales over the past couple of years. They could be summarized as hot, humid, unsanitary, crime-ridden, bug-infested, dangerous, and malodorous, with digressions into enormous and weird shopping malls and food poisoning.

However, booze was cheap, and for those who wanted Asian women (or something that looked like women), those were cheap, too, as long as your life is also cheap. (In Thailand and Indonesia, her shipmates relied on her to identify the not-female.)

The only place she really liked was Singapore, which has a large English-language naval presence, and Panama was okay.

[KeyLargo]

"the women are great—until you marry them, "

Yep. Pretty much all over the world....including USA. LOL.

My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels.

She asked, "What's on TV?"

I said, "Dust."

And then the fight started...