Top Countries for Retired Livin': Where's Japan?

[Catoneinutica]

"International Living" magazine sends me spam about how you, too, can buy a house in Calabria for under 20,000 Euro or beachfront apartment up the coast from Montevideo for 70,000 USD. This list is based on parameters pertinent to quality-of-retired-life, when your libido has abated and you're no longer that interested in tossing the locals a right pumpin' (well, unless you're an aging boulevardier like greji). Hence the absence of Japan from the top of the list. Still, I think Japan should be somewhere on the list; I'd like to live here at least part of the time, even after retirement. What do you maniacs think? Do you plan on staying around after you retire?

IL's top 25:

1. FRANCE
2. AUSTRALIA
3. SWITZERLAND
4. GERMANY
5. NEW ZEALAND
6. LUXEMBOURG
7. UNITED STATES
8. BELGIUM
9. CANADA
10. ITALY
11. NETHERLANDS
12. NORWAY
13. AUSTRIA
14. LIECHTENSTEIN
15. MALTA
16. DENMARK
17. SPAIN
18. FINLAND
19. URUGUAY
20. HUNGARY
21. PORTUGAL
22. LITHUANIA
23. ANDORRA
24. CZECH REPUBLIC
25. UNITED KINGDOM

[MrUltimateGaijin]

all those countries speak English better, which may be important for international retirees.

[Greji]

well, unless you're an aging boulevardier like greji).

There are certain tasks that having a fatal disease like YBF, do not allow you to retire from!

Do you plan on staying around after you retire?).

Ahhh, what do you mean "after you retire?" I think I got a couple of kids that are retired now.....

[Yokohammer]

Hmm, the language could very well be an issue. But I'd guess that for most of us cunning linguists who can handle the language (and anything else we can get our tongues involved with) this is a difficult question. It is for me.

The natural result of being here for multiple decades is that your entire life is here: work, friends, family ... the whole shebang (I know we're talking about retirement, but let's leave work in there for the time being). That is really hard to break away from, and the thought of having to start again, even if it's in your home country, is a tad frightening.

On the other hand, the more "integrated" you become in J-land, the more you run up against the really insidious obstacles that the society has implemented to keep outsiders on the outside. A thick skin is essential equipment.

But having said that, I expect to be here until my last breath, possibly bitching about the place the entire time. It might be nice to be wealthy enough to have established, comfortable residences in both places, and be able to fly back and forth, first class of course, as the mood strikes. But flying itself is becoming more and more of an unpleasant experience that could suck much of the joy out of that plan.

So the answer is ... I dunno.

Still working on it.

[AssKissinger]

Fuck that list. Those are all western countries. They probably didn't even consider anything outside of North America and Europe. That's just for rich old fucks and faggy fratboy pussies.

[Catoneinutica]

Fuck that list. Those are all western countries. They probably didn't even consider anything outside of North America and Europe. That's just for rich old fucks and faggy fratboy pussies.

It is kind of an odd list. They've got Uruguay, but not Chile, Mexico, and Costa Rica, all attractive to retirees (Mexico despite its drug violence). And Thailand would have to outrank countries like Lithuania, Hungary, and the UK.

And you don't have to be a jet-setter to spend half the year in one place, the other half in another. I definitely am not one, and I'm planning on us spending our summers in France or Germany and our winters partly in Japan and partly in the SW US.

[nottu]

[AssKissinger]

Enter your favorite cheap third world country here

Nepal

[IkemenTommy]

6- Enter your favorite cheap third world country here

6 - Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia

This list is way sketchy when most of the places listed can cost you a shit load to live for the average. Vacation.. maybe but not the places to retire.

[Taro Toporific]

Do you plan on staying around after you retire?

Nope.


However, of course this list excludes Japan--The-Land-of-Concrete(tm), Japan, does not offer a "retirement visa."

[james]

Nope.


However, of course this list excludes Japan--The-Land-of-Concrete(tm), Japan, does not offer a "retirement visa."

thank fsm. there are enough old people here as it is.

[Blah Pete]

Malaysia and Thailand offer retirement visas. Have to show proof of support but and kind of a retirement from a western company (or Japan) is enough.
Remember, old folks have a hard time keeping warm.

[Catoneinutica]

Nope.


However, of course this list excludes Japan--The-Land-of-Concrete(tm), Japan, does not offer a "retirement visa."

You know, I'd be willing to wager that it'll start offering them in the next decade. They'd get relatively non-threatening gaijin and their foreign-origin pensions. It'd be a boon to depopulated inaka areas that are, despite this being the Land o' Concrete, positively Miyazaki-esque compared to, say, China. Indeed, I can imagine Chinese retirees coming here in droves]already[/I] feels like a big retirement home after you get back from Shanghai or HK.

[Taka-Okami]

You know, I'd be willing to wager that it'll start offering them in the next decade. They'd get relatively non-threatening gaijin and their foreign-origin pensions. It'd be a boon to depopulated inaka areas that are, despite this being the Land o' Concrete, positively Miyazaki-esque compared to, say, China. Indeed, I can imagine Chinese retirees coming here in droves]already[/I] feels like a big retirement home after you get back from Shanghai or HK.

More like China attacking Japan when they feel they have weakend enough. Pay back for all the sh*t the Japs pulled off over there. Chinese retireing in droves? Yeah......right, maybe once they have wiped them out!

[Takechanpoo]

This list is only for white dudes or white-looking dudes.
If non-white people live there after retired, they will suffer dreadful racial discriminations in every single situations and places. Compared with it, discriminations gaijins suffer in Japan are really trivial.

[Catoneinutica]

More like China attacking Japan when they feel they have weakend enough. Pay back for all the sh*t the Japs pulled off over there. Chinese retireing in droves? Yeah......right, maybe once they have wiped them out!

I take it you're not retiring here? The Chinese are paying "the Japs" back every minute of every muh-fuckin' day by out-exporting the shit out of them. Now you've got rich Chinese shopping in Ginza and Chinese companies buying J-companies; in a decade or two Japan will be a full-on Chinese vassal state, and those thirty million surplus Chinese men will be coming here looking for wives.

-catone
-take may want to get a sex-change - it'll be a good chance to "marry up."

[Evil Pongi]

Fuck that list. Those are all western countries. They probably didn't even consider anything outside of North America and Europe. That's just for rich old fucks and faggy fratboy pussies.

Fuck yeah AK. Give me Cambodia any day!

[Catoneinutica]

Fuck yeah AK. Give me Cambodia any day!

Where you can procure a smooth, hairless young fella for the price of a bowl of ramen. Take will bring the lotion.

[Greji]

Where you can procure a smooth, hairless young fella for the price of a bowl of ramen. Take will bring the lotion.

Take's knowledge of foreign countries is a bit challenged as the longest trip he has made is 50' from his door step....

[Taka-Okami]

[quote="Catoneinutica"]I take it you're not retiring here? The Chinese are paying "the Japs" back every minute of every muh-fuckin' day by out-exporting the shit out of them. Now you've got rich Chinese shopping in Ginza and Chinese companies buying J-companies]

Your probably right. Those Chinese cunts have already bought Australia. The US should nuke em before they really start pushing their weight around. Lets call it a 'preemptive strike'.

[Takechanpoo]

Your probably right. Those Chinese cunts have already bought Australia. The US should nuke em before they really start pushing their weight around. Lets call it a 'preemptive strike'.

From the point of view of mixing and erasing white Aussie dudes, I wholeheartedly support huge amount of Chinese and Indian emigrating Aussie land. Stop curry bashing.

[Tsuru]

Unless something changes regarding China's one-child policy they will be overtaken by India and hit by a massive aging wave in the next 20 years.

Source: Council on Foreign Relations

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