It makes my skin crawl to even THINK of being retired in a place where Shari'a is the law. Brrrrrrrrrr. What is this guy THINKING?
People with itchy feet often don't do much thinking. They become addled with the new, the exotic, the dirt-cheap maids and yardmen. I'm not much of a traveller myself.
I know of people who have moved briefly to the Carribean, only to return pewling and whining about the crime or the crude medical care or the maid who stole jewelry. D'uh. The chance to be a rich man in a poor country--the boasting like they're Cousteau or Earhardt just for buying a ticket and paying rent--tiresome.
Naivete often comes hand-in-hand with willful ignorance--like the people who won't acknowledge the danger of Islam because they happen to know a nice Muslim. They just make me tired.