Best Ex-Pat area for full time residency
We are considering moving out of the US to experience another part of the world. We have thought of Mexico, Costa Rico, Belize, Panama each one has plusses and minuses. When reading the blogs it seems...
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NJRVer wrote:CampbellDaycruiser wrote:
It also matters how you feel about living on an ex-pat island in a sea of locals or living in a society with extreme income inequality where everyone is just scraping by except for the elite who run everything.
Sounds like a lot of areas I have been through in this country too.
Agreed. It's hard to look inward and see that things are pretty much the same in most of the planet. Being from one country today doesn't make you any better than anyone else.
What is democracy anyway and where does it really exist? There are 47 million Americans living below the poverty line. The same in Mexico. Take a trip through the southern U.S. and see people that in reality are still indentured servants. They live on a huge farm, pay for their shack, food and services to the man. Drug and sex traffiking abound. Illegals are used for below minimum wage jobs because no one else will take them.
It's the human condition.
