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Originally Posted by madko
Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Greece (basically all eastern Europe)
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Basically all the places no one really wants to retire in.  Note I'm saying retire and not live. I wouldn't mind spending a year or two in Romania bagging hotties.
When you think about a place to retire, Eastern Europe doesn't really make the list. Many like to retire to places without winter. But out of those listed, which has no winter (or one that isn't harsh), affordable health care, and it's easy to get a long term visa?
Getting a visa is the ass kicker in many countries.
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Originally Posted by NetHorse
This article might've been true, 5 years before everyone started doing it.
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You hit that on the head. Many articles are many years too late. By the time they make yahoo news, they are either played out or the prices have changed dramatically.
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Originally Posted by nekrom
China.
Forget the shitty mainland parts, move to the island of the south that belongs to China, but is an SEZ. Find it yourself I'm not telling you, fucked if I want hundreds of expats flooding the place heh.
Getting around:
Do what I did, buy an electric power bike/scooter thingo. Buy second hand, one time price, 2000RMB or less. Full battery recharge 1RMB. Takes 3 days to use up all the juice, re-charge and drive around like a boss again. Top speed 45 km/ph. Hard to do that in heavy traffic, so just use the footpaths like the locals do, fuck the police!
Medical/Hospital:
No medicare, no safety net. User pays system. Private hospitals are shit, avoid like a 20RMB whore.
Stick to the government hospitals. If you are white, you are elevated to god tier. You will pay for it, but you will get all the western trained doctors, and not some janitor that is wearing a white lab coat. (Think I'm joking, I've seen it myself).
Other great things about the place. 8 million locals, 300 expats, a non existent police system (you see them but they do fuck all) no road rules, no breath testing (if you drink and drive you are a fucking cunt though, think of others and their families before you get behind the wheel), no in your bedroom/life gov policies, no tax on world wide internet income (at this point in time), they love Australians, English & Americans are ok. If you are Russian, you are below a black person and they dislike those and if you are Japanese, you will be lynched in the streets.
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Epic post. The janitor working in the hospital has me in tears, because I know it's true. 
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Originally Posted by klinton
countries in Europe to live OK for 1200 usd per month:
Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, whole former Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Turkey,Estonia, Latvia, Lotva, Belarus.
Still doable but without luxuries: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Germany, France, UK, Holland, Austria.
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Who wants to live without luxuries?
About the first group in the list, which of those are actually nice countries to retire in where you don't have brutally cold winters, the health care is affordable, and non citizens can get a long term visa? |