The Expat Retirement Thread (or expat thread)

Quote: SOOPOO

Anesthesiologist I trained with did just as you did. In addition to everything you mentioned, he complained about the very high cost of living if you wanted to live well. After two years there he took a job in Iowa!

I worked with a few Anesthesiologists at the University of Iowa hospitals. I was there in the 1980's so probably not your friend.

Quote: SOOPOO

Anesthesiologist I trained with did just as you did. In addition to everything you mentioned, he complained about the very high cost of living if you wanted to live well. After two years there he took a job in Iowa!

Wouldn't he have been making well into six figures?

Quote: SOOPOO

, he complained about the very high cost of living if you wanted to live well.

Living at all, let alone well. I was
there 45 years ago and a gallon
of milk was $4, a loaf of bread $2.
We existed on pancakes and mac
cheese boxes. Spam was considered
gourmet eating. Spam! Yuk.

Quote: AZDuffman

Wouldn't he have been making well into six figures?

Doesn't matter what you earn, you
still have to deal with the in your
face racism. The Asians were the
worst. You better not confuse their
race, they might kill you. And the
native Hawaiians are the worst.
Most of them live on the plentiful
welfare benefits that includes housing,
So a lot of them are drunk on Coors
beer all day. "Go beach drink beer', you
hear it all the time. They would hit on
my GF right in front of me. I was a white
piece of dog crap, they didn't even
notice me.

1990, so low 6 figures. Probably 30% lower than equivalent job in Buffalo. My nice house bought then was $230k. He said equivalent there was $600k in decent area. He wouldn’t starve of course, but he said he felt middle class financially, and second class citizen like Bob outlines.

Quote: AZDuffman

Second and the big reason and I have said it before, I see major disruption coming to the USA. We are balkanizing. You can see what is happening in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and other places. This stuff spreads

+100

The libbies are conditioning people to accept their word with question........................and it's working!!
Whenever I see one of the sheep scold a perfectly healthy person for not wearing a mask, I cringe big time.

We may end up being neighbors in Portugal!!

Quote: Shrek

+100

The libbies are conditioning people to accept their word with question........................and it's working!!
Whenever I see one of the sheep scold a perfectly healthy person for not wearing a mask, I cringe big time.

We may end up being neighbors in Portugal!!

Maybe leave sooner than later and start a fancy coffee stand?

Or burger stand called "Big Kahuna?"

This guy not so much of an elitist ad the couple before.

Quote: AZDuffman

This guy not so much of an elitist ad the couple before.

I dunno. This didn't impress me. Ongoing
depressed economy, people working making
less than the rest of EU. Ocean front means
nothing to me. I lived in Santa Barbara for
7 years, you get used to the ocean
view in weeks and don't even see it anymore.

The places he drove thru were depressing,
like those old Soviet countries. $95,000
USD for a crappy apartment is not 'cheap'
to me, considering the country it's in. A
nice place to visit, lots of tourists, I would
never want to live there.

Quote: AZDuffman

This guy not so much of an elitist ad the couple before.

Having moved to a couple places
unfamiliar to me, my advice
is to spend a month there before
you move. Never move anyplace
on the advice of others. For
instance, I don't get along well
with others in person, I find
people mostly irritating. I live
alone and mostly see nobody
and that's just fine with me.

We all have pet peeves like that.
Test an area before you move
there.