Posted on 09/09/2018 2:30:05 PM PDT by Eagles Field
I find it fascinating, which I suppose points to my lack of sophistication ... when I read from a Freeper who’s living in Singapore or some other such place. A U.S. citizen born and raised that chose that. I’ve flirted with it, no further than fingers typing on a keyboard from time to time where the interest quickly fleets.
Frankly, I would be scared. But if I could escape the constant drum beat of liberal psychosis it would seem a path worth consideration. From someone to turn 64 in a few months and the realization of days dwindling.
My questions are why did you do it? Did you do it and come back packing regret, why?. Do you plan to? Cost of living a game changer? And a hundred other questions.
Some of them seem to do it because their girlfriends don’t speak English...
I’d kick in a few bucks for you to leave the country.
“Some of them seem to do it because their girlfriends don’t speak English...”
That is pretty darn funny there. In my last three years working back and forth in the Middle East, I was just doing my job. Of course, I would bring over the lovely and gracious Mrs. Shark24 to visit me when I couldn’t get home for holidays. Oh well, guess I am boring. :)
You are engagingly and charmingly boring, my FRiend!
I live in Southeast Asia for about 6 years and then traveled around the Western Pacific for another 5 and one thing that I always stop and think about is that it was very nice, but it was also a long time ago. A lot of things have changed in the last 30 years that turned a lot of those idyllic places into something much different.
Not nearly as boring as the guy above you. :)
Think 90........ at a minimum
Clint producesd a movie at 86.
It’s a bad idea to travel or live someplace where the things you are wearing or the money you carry are worth more than the people around you will make in a year. I read that in Mexico the government has moved troops into formerly safe tourist areas because of the crime rate. Having had a rail mounted .5 cal pointed at me by a Mexican army guy while I waited at a traffic check point, I’m not that inclined to leave the US.
They speak well in other ways!
These n00bs are pathetic.
I would wager distance depends on who is after you.
Is it a ex gf, ex wife, gf's husband, booky, the mob, LE?
They don’t have to go overseas, just hit the Rio Grande valley or Southside Chicago. ;)
I’ll stay where the rule of law applies.
I did it. No regrets. I'm going back again in 2019, God willing, at age 64. Cheaper overseas.
In 1995, my husband and I packed our worldly goods and our three children and trekked halfway across the world to the island of New Guinea, specifically, Sentani, Papua, Indonesia. We went there because there are over 250 different languages on the Papua side of the island, then called Irian Jaya, which do not have a copy of the Bible in their language. (A person should not have to learn a foreign language to read God's Word to them) We wanted to be part of the Bible Translation team.
We have stayed there ever since, only returning for furloughs (Home Ministry Assignments) and short family vacations. I returned this May (2018)because I was severely anemic. It turned out I have developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma (FYI, in 2015 a study was printed which showed a possible link between malaria and NHL. I have had malaria between 25 and 50 times. I haven't counted) It is our year of Home Ministry Assignment again. That means we travel and tell others about the work of Bible Translation in Papua.
The work is not done. That is why we will be returning. Hubby and I both are 63 and it is our intention to continue doing this work until God retires us one way or another.
No regrets.
If someone reading this would like to be part of a work with eternal consequences, please contact me. Boy! Do I have an important work to share with you!
And a few others ARE NOT AMERICANS! They're foreign nationals who love FREEDOM and want news from the USA.
Instead of posting stupid stuff, you would be better to just read this site and learn!
And... right outta the chute we get the radfem point of view. Made me laugh.
And right out of the box we have the repressed homo point of view, lol!
I know some people who moved to Central America because of the rural setting and dollar value. Nicaragua and the Honduras. Many of those areas are at some level of armed conflict right now. Sandinista problems in Nicaragua, among other flare ups. Some expats are moving back to the states now before they don’t have the money or even the choice.
Others feel they can wait it out, since their particular town is not directly effected at this time.
Conclusion:
Leaving one’s home country in search of lasting tranquility is a high stakes gamble. Some start out with very little to lose in a material way, but what they really want is an adventure to add color, spice and even a little drama to their staid, predictable routines, so they flip a coin and go.
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