Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:16 am Post subject: Best Places in Asia to retire?
What do you consider the best place in Asia to retire?
yes ... many factors here.. all should be considered _________________ Asia Expats Forum Expat Friends Dating
Depending on your needs, wants, preferences etc . . . tough call . . .
Little wealth: Thailand. We already have a house near Krabi and one near the Laos border . . . beach and hills. Inexpensive living and gorgeous scenery. Nice food and nice people.
Medium wealth: Borneo - Kota Kinabalu. Amazingly beautiful place where you can climb Mt. Kinabalu one day and go diving in or around the Tunku Abdul Rahman Nature Reserve the next. (We go there at least every 3-4 months) Rainforest, cleaaaaan air. Amazing local indigenous culture and a nice melding of Aborigines, Chinese, Malays
Large wealth - Southern Japan - either around Fukuoka or even furtehr in Okinawa . . . Most pleasant people in Asia, my favourite cuisine, excellent and cheap local and imported cars, fantastic infrastructure and excellent medical facilities (important if you are going to retire as old age brings illnesses) _________________ _____________________________________
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject: Re: Best Places in Asia to retire?
Mike wrote:
What do you consider the best place in Asia to retire?
yes ... many factors here.. all should be considered
Based upon my experiences so far, China!
Gorgeous women, pretty cheap to live so long as one doesnt live the expat lifestyle most of the time, pretty developed in certain parts (actually a certain level of development exists nationwide provided one doesn't seek out a remote village - and that level is quite good), plenty of natural beauty in many parts of the nation ...
Cheap massages, both X rated and PG rated ... ... And of course, plenty of beer and pizza for BPR followers ...
The local food may not be what a lot of foreigners prefer, but thats probably true for many other Asian nations as well!
Note I say "based upon my experiences" - if I went to Thailand, or perhaps Indonesia (or other Asian nations for that matter), I may think otherwise .
(Florence or the Tuscan countryside . . . that's where my brother will end up)
just making a point--if i were filthy rich--Europe is where I would be-most of the time-maybe
Cannes or Nice would do me fine _________________ Asia Expats Forum Expat Friends Dating
At the age of 33 I had managed to squeeze my accident insurance for lifelong annuity payments. The next two years I was travelling and looking. Could not make up my mind. Mainly because I had looked at places with tourists.
So in January 1989 I was the first time in Thailand. Pattaya and Phuket did not impress me much for the tourists, Bangkok I disliked at first sight. Chiangmai was quite attraktiv. But my choice fell on Korat then because it was still an original place, not made up for tourists, very friendly people, no rip offs, and about to get developed for the people who live here.
My choice was guided by the thinking not to retire from one day to the other. I've seen that as disastrous. As Korat was developing, it was very easy to get a job as part time teacher/lecturer. That was my main idea: get used to the place still doing something and pull the brake when you got enough. It took me eight years to push the button or finally decline an offer for an even better position fearing it might become stress.
Issan is not a paradise but you can make it your paradise. Sure had ups and downs in that process but I never felt having made the wrong decision.
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How about the mid-to-northern parts of Vietnam? Not Ho Chi Minh which is pretty commercialized by now. Nha Trang, a seaside town for example.
I must say that there are some very pretty girls, which is why I had to hotfoot it to Hanoi when he got posted there! Cost of living is definitely low, except that the medical facilities may be, errr, a little on the primitive side. No big shopping malls of course. Just a simple life living very well with most goods and services well within your reach.
I enjoyed staying in Hanoi although I suffered food poisoning couple of times for getting too adventurous with cuilinary sampling.
Everything is cheap, they speaks English, nice beaches, and freer and safer than comparable neighboring countries. Heard there's a lot of night life too.
But i heard many japanese people are retiring in Thailand because the medical hospital and take-care centers overthere are supposedly the best int he world.
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not because i grow up here but many foreigners told me that they prefer to retire in the philippines