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A Latin Am. country where a person can live a resonably comfortable lifestyle and still be able to save a little for future trips back to the US. and all this on a mere $1200 a mo. Maybe I dreaming here but this is why I on this blog. Any advice would be most helpful. I coming down from California in three mo. . If I don't get more info on other country's I am going to Costa Rico as a starting place. It would be just great to know someone when I arrive.
Why is Obama or American healthcare on the World Forum?
If we're going to tie the World Forum to US government massive spending sprees...the War in Iraq is the big elephant in the room...I've always wondered why Tea Partiers hate poor Americans having health insurance, yet are usually gung-ho supportive about massive, massive, massive American spending done in foreign countries.
When you look at the dollars spent, we spend far more on health care in any given year than on the war. You don't have to be in favor of the war to see that America spends a lot of money on health care but is not getting good results for it (EG--We spend more as a % of GDP on health care than any developed country but have the lowest life expectancy). That includes both private and public spending. Our public spending alone is almost 9% of GDP and is what most other developed countries spend to guarantee universal coverage. We are running up huge and unsustainable deficits and many of us believe throwing even more money at health care will add a lot to our debts without doing anything to make the system more effective.
And by the way, most poor people in American get their health care paid for. It's whe working class and portions of the middle class who have to pay out of pocket, do without, pay very high premiums, or use the emergency room.
I taught in the Gulf for 5 yrs. I made $50,000 a yr, they gave me free housing, 6 bedrooms 4 bathrooms, airfare to the states every summer for my family(me 3 kids), they paid school fees for 2 children, and no taxes!!!!!
I lived better than I ever have in the states. I had a live in maid and new car with in 2 month of getting there. The crime rate is low. The only real crime is domestic and petty things. I guess the only draw back to most people would be the heat and being around Muslims. It didnt bother me at all. I enjoyed every moment. I am dreaming of going back.......
Low cost and low crime don't go together, low cost means that salaries are low as well and not much work is around = higher crime. If you make your money in high salary place and save a lot and then move to low cost places some safe choices are Uruguay, Panama, Costa Rica and former eastern European countries that are poor now. Asia offers Thailand and you can live well cheaply in China without much crime. I would look for place where I know some language and have some friends at minimum. If you need to earn a living, go to USA, many states are cheap to live and pay can be quite good (depending on your profession).
I've always found the cities/countries that have the tag of being the 'place with the highest quality of life' and are world renowned for incredibly low crime are also often incredibly dull.
US has the best health care so we should have affordable health care for everyone too. Preventive care should be free.
You do realize that we have the best health care because of the free market system and that the recent changes made will diminish our great health care innovation by killing incentive to create new medicines, for excellent candidates to enter the medical field (b/c who wants to do all that schooling to get paid a nominal wage), etc. Why do you think the rest of the world does not have good health care? The best your idea will do is bring us down with the rest of the world.
The Middle East has areas with high income, low crime, and low cost of living such as in Saudi....but I have zero interest in returning. Maybe Dubai would be okay. As someone else mentioned, you get what you pay for....you can't get high salaries, low crime and low cost of living...I guess maybe Minneapolis?
Lower than US, but much higher than Japan though. Check this out.
Oh geez Taiwan is so dangerous.
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