Posted on 02/21/2022 6:02:14 PM PST by DoodleBob
I seriously thought about Panama...
I lived there for five years.
Nice place if you have money.
Reliably corrupt governments are wonderful if you have money and pull...
Is it possible to give serious consideration, in substance, to any statement coming from Klaus Schwab?
Other than considering how to retaliate against him?
Not even considering any of them.
My wife and I are very happy in retirement in Texas!!!!
Reliably corrupt governments are wonderful if you have money and pull...
What country is exempt from that?
Asking for 80 million friends ;-)
I knew a guy, who got all excited to retire in Costa Rica (Nr 2 on the list)
Tried it a little bit and came back pretty fast!
Did not share his experience?!
Portugal. A shipmate got picked up for being drunk. The cops dropped him off the next day. They really worked him over. Face swelled up from the beating they gave him.
Panama. We were told to put our finished cigarette butt in our pocket because of the crooked cops, and never venture out alone.
Mexico? Really? A kleptocracy run by the cartels.
A guy I used to work with retired to Costa Rica. After getting robbed at gun point several times and losing his wallet, he started buying the $10 fake Rolex watches because the robbers would take that and let him keep his wallet.
What, no authoritarian Canada?
Of all the counties I have been to, Uruguay was the friendliest. Freakish friendly. We had to wear our uniforms on shore and if they saw us, they would rush over wanting autographs.
Brazil. We were warned they would slash your throat for your watch.
Ah, memories.
Retire
A fellow I knew from a previous life loved Uruguay. He said it was by far the most orderly country in Latin America because, although they spoke Spanish, they were mostly ethnically German
None of em have hockey. So, no
No.
I’ll never leave my country. Never. Fight and die to defend it if it comes to that, but this is home.
People were rude as hell to us when we went on Liberty in Brest, France back in 1976.
They glared at us. It was weird.
The Friendliest? Scotland, by far. We went to Edinburgh, and they treated us like gold.
The cleanest and also the most interesting, had to be Dubrovnik. This was back in 1977-78, and we were the first carrier to pull in there since WWII. They were still a Communist country back then. The city was sparkling clean (if you dropped a gum wrapper or something, a little old lady with a pan and broom would magically appear to immediately sweep it up) and the women were very attractive, though unobtainable.
I played basketball in my blues with a bunch of Yugoslav guys, and completely destroyed my brand spanking new Coroframs I purchased at considerable expense! I bought them, because I thought shining shoes was a pain in the ass!
I got huge scuff marks on them, and tried to fix them by heating them up with a Bic lighter, but...they were beyond repair.
I take back my comment about interesting. The most
I agree. I am not jumping ship.
President Rutherford B. Hayes is revered in Paraguay. There are several Hayes scholarships in colleges and, if I remember correctly there is even a University named after him as well as streets named after him. I have forgotten why he is so well-respected in Paraguay but I am sure that a google search will explain it if you are interested.
Stayin’ in the US. I’ll just find a cheap state even if it means digging out of the snow a few times a year. At the worst, the US is the devil I know.
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