re: Americans retiring to Vietnam

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Malaysia is ok in KL but the rest of the country sucks in terms of medical and general living conditions.

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I dated a doctor from Malaysia. She said Malaysia would be great if they could get rid of the Malay Muslims. The Chinese and Indian Malaysians are educated and work hard. The Muslim native Malays are lazy and stupid but they run the country due to majority voting numbers.

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Pattaya

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Was there in February. Will return!

Surely all those Asian ppl walking around with surgical masks on means something. ??

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Before you make the decision to retire to Indonesia you may want to keep track of

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earthquakes and volcanos

My brother retired from oil business in his early 50s retired and stayed in Bangkok which is were he spent most his professional life.
Cost effective and life in a big city that never sleeps. A lot of expats living in Bangkok go to Vietnam for a slower holiday. Dirt cheep for food and partying. Lots of expats stay there.
They like people from out of country ( except Chinese and Japanese who tend to be rude) and is is a beautiful place and becoming a retirement destination to many.

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After all, why would I want to go back to a country were I lost some of the greatest guys you would ever want to be around?

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I certainly wouldn't ever want to live there!

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As a fellow veteran (a shite ton younger though, my brother), I do not want to invalidate your feelings on this, but I also want you to recognize how irrational this is. We lost a lot of fantastic young men in France, too.

For that matter, we lost a lot of fine young men in Virginia and Pennsylvania even further back.

It may not be for you for a whole host of reasons, but losing guys there shouldn't be one of them.

To all of our Vietnam vets, welcome home gents. You paved the way for us younger vets to be treated far better than you guys. Thank you.

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DiamondDog

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Dude. Go to the central portion of the country. Hard pass bro. At one point in our trip if something happened, I realized I was likely going to be dead because there were no healthcare resources. They had chickens running in and out of their houses.

I will never go back. Regardless of how tempting the beaches are. And they’re supposed to be the most stable and advanced LA country.

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Wait...are you under the mistaken impression that I hung out inside my gated neighborhood the entire time?

We fished our asses off half a hundy miles into the Pacific. We drove up into the mountains an hour back in from the coast and hiked up into the mountains and rafted our way back down through Class 4’s per our guide. We ate lunch at a Barry Seal tribute plane lodged in the side of a mountain with a bar built in it. We visited off grid beaches that had 3 people-and one raccoon-on it the entire time we were there.

Yes, we saw chickens and other animals all over the damn place.

That’s because it’s-literally-a third world country. Saying it’s the most advanced country in Latin America is truthful. What’s also truthful is that there are nothing but 3rd world countries in Latin America.

IE-Being the most advanced 3rd world country in Latin America is like being a Gold Medal Winner in competitive eating. Even if you win you’re still a fricking loser.

The point of my comment was that if I had to choose a country other than los Estados Unidos to live in, I would choose CR over countries in SE Asia. The point was never to express the superiority or even attempt a comparison contrast of one’s health system to another.

My preference is CR based on cost of living, proximity to Norte Americano medicine and a fairly significant expat population. Oh...and not having a massive segment of society that hates me for being an infidel based on their religious beliefs is a plus.

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My guess is that all those decades of 'Retire Cheap in Latin America' may not be going so well these days. Thoughts?

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There are wonderful places to retire in Latin America. That’s where we are likely headed when we retire. Cities in Columbia, panama, Ecuador, Uruguay, etc. especially the latter. Beautiful country, safe, coastal etc..