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Old 12-25-2013, 12:32 AM
 
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I'm trying to figure out what the problem is here.

Retirees looking for cheaper pastures has been the norm every since i can remember. Lots of American retirees would retire abroad if they could.
There's no problem - unlike the last time that Germans were moving into Poland
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Old 12-25-2013, 12:41 AM
 
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There's no problem - unlike the last time that Germans were moving into Poland
Yeah, Poland hasn't traditionally cared too much for "German exports," if you know what i mean.

That aside, hell...i might leave THIS country to retire if i can. My wife an i have discussed it several times. Besides, i've always enjoyed life more when i lived outside of our borders. The United States is kinda boring after living abroad.
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Old 12-25-2013, 07:39 AM
 
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Yeah, Poland hasn't traditionally cared too much for "German exports," if you know what i mean.

That aside, hell...i might leave THIS country to retire if i can. My wife an i have discussed it several times. Besides, i've always enjoyed life more when i lived outside of our borders. The United States is kinda boring after living abroad.

I don't think the topic here is "retirement" so much as it is finding grandma a place to die that doesn't cost 10 or 15 grand a month.
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Old 12-25-2013, 07:46 AM
 
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No problem here. This is all part of the EU line of thought, everyone wins.
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Old 12-25-2013, 08:38 AM
 
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Are they putting them in boxcars yet?
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Old 12-25-2013, 10:10 AM
 
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Are they putting them in boxcars yet?
Ouch. Kinda grumpy on Christmas, huh?
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Old 12-25-2013, 10:35 AM
 
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Just a simple google away:

Eastern European nursing homes a blessing for Germans? | Germany | DW.DE | 03.04.2013

If this is a typical example maybe they're looking at a whole whack of Americans zipping over there to then maintain contact with wireless, TV and internet available in their own rooms at a tenth of the cost. eh?
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Old 12-25-2013, 10:39 AM
 
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Germany doesn't have the same demographics as the US. There was no post war baby boom there, as they were just trying to survive for the first few years after WWII, and so many of their men had died in the war.

If Americans turned up in Poland's nursing homes, the costs would skyrocket.
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Old 12-25-2013, 10:41 AM
 
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Just a simple google away:

Eastern European nursing homes a blessing for Germans? | Germany | DW.DE | 03.04.2013

If this is a typical example maybe they're looking at a whole whack of Americans zipping over there to then maintain contact with wireless, TV and internet available in their own rooms at a tenth of the cost. eh?
Obviously.

The real killer in that story was Germans even going as far as Thailand.

Buy hey, whatever floats their boats.
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Old 12-25-2013, 11:28 AM
 
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We should be sending our criminals away, not our old folks.

Why don't they build more prisons in Siberia and contract American prisoners there? No need for fences, but they have to learn to work together or starve/freeze to death. After 10 years in a Siberian prison camp they would come back changed people, maybe with an appreciation for the luck of being born an American.
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