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The Expat Retirement Thread (or expat thread)
| November 15th, 2020 at 9:12:02 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Yup. Sometimes the heat blast when they opened the door made me recoil, take a step back. How they live like that is a mystery. If it's over 70 inside I'm uncomfortable in the winter. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| November 15th, 2020 at 9:20:29 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
We would go to Bethany Beach in DE when I was a kid and went back East to grandma's. I loved it when I was 10 and it looked just like those pics I posted. As an adult it was a place of torture. My tan crazy GF complained the whole time about how miserable she was, but getting that all over tan was that important to her. In MI three sides of the state are surrounded by beach. Sand and water. I had an ocean view in Santa Barbara, stopped seeing it the first month I was there. Boring. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| November 15th, 2020 at 9:43:30 AM permalink | |
| Tanko Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 0 Posts: 1986 |
Half the Pilgrims didn't survive their first winter. Their homes were so cold, cup of tea left on the mantle would freeze by morning. Their Wampanoag neighbors spent the cold months in 'three fire' Nush Wetu homes where the inside temperature averaged 78 degrees in winter. |
| November 15th, 2020 at 11:42:06 AM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | That is awful. That isn't unlike the shoreline of Lake Havasu where I live, near London Bridge. The flotsom, wreckage and logs washed up on Montague Island is memorable, acres of stuff to pick through. No bikinis, just Grizzly bears. The bears are probably much safer to deal with. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| November 15th, 2020 at 11:47:52 AM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| November 15th, 2020 at 12:54:37 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4967 |
I keep my thermostat at 76 year round. I would keep it at 78 if my wife would let me. I prefer secluded beaches with few people. Whenwe go to Orient Beach we go in the offseason and are usually thefirst and only people for the first hour or so. Also it is nice because there are rarely any kids there. This is the beach we tried to go to last week but the weather did not cooperate.  At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
| November 16th, 2020 at 9:47:47 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |  Marbella Spain is an interesting beach in winter. It is cold but hotel rooms can be had for a tiny percentage of what they cost in summer. You basically go for the cuisine and the culture  The yachts come to Marbella even in winter, so there is a lot of fine dining and there is still flamenco.   |
| November 16th, 2020 at 10:39:49 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Just looking that pic made me so bored I wanted to take my own life for a second. Water and sand, the most overrated vacation destination on the planet. "My house has an ocean view." Yeah? I can put a pic of an ocean view on the wall and now have exactly what you have. I had an ocean view in Santa Barbara, stopped seeing it the 3rd week I was there. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| November 16th, 2020 at 10:41:06 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18210 |
Spain and Portugal are both interesting as retirement or bug-out expat living. Mild climate in both, Spain seems to have more amenities. One Portugal video I saw implied that you need to hit Spain every now and then to get the goods you need. FWIW, Belize is like this in that you have to go to a Mexico WMT every few months. Meanwhile Bitcoin keeps creeping up so maybe I do a check-out trip one day. The President is a fink. |
| November 16th, 2020 at 11:37:24 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I know a woman who works in a E African country and once a month has to drive 150 miles to another country to buy groceries. At first she thought it was quaint, she now dreads it. Any country like Portugal that has a poor economy and high unemployment, I would check out in person multiple times before I moved there. Does not sound like a fun place to be a 'rich' American. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |