[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.

[trisham]

It's my understanding that Panama has a large number of ex-US military. I recently saw an episode of "House Hunters International" on HGTV, and it appeared that it is a lovely place to live. I don't know anything about Singapore, but it seems that it may be similar.

I hate humidity, which is why I can't imagine moving to Florida or other humid locations, despite that my husband and I have quite a few family members living there, as well as Georgia.

[American Constitutionalist]

Many people do not have a great appreciation of America until you go to another country and see it for yourself and realize how good we have it here.
I bet ? when that guy's money runs out that his wife will not be so loyal and she will have to go visit some long lost relative in another Provence for a few days every month.
Things might be better for him in Cebu, but in Manila ? it's a hell hole for most people there.
We don't realize how nice our roads are here, or our air until you go to a city like Manila.