Looking to relocate. But to where?

If you care about manners and service then Japan is the winner without a doubt. Tokyo was recently named "safest city in the world". I enjoyed living in Japan and I plan to return soon.
 
apo99 said:
Crete Greece, even some of the smaller island not Athens tho.

Cheap, safe, great weather and food, I don't think I ever had any more fun anywhere else in the world
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i love greek islands, but wouldn't say the weather is nice outside of summer. second great food and girls. consider corfu where the girls are crazy
 
Crete stays warm for most part of the year, your not far from Africa.

This is where is spend my summers, I would pick up a small 20foot fishing boat and just live there later on.
 
d08 said:
Sounds like you haven't traveled that much outside of US. .
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i lived all over the world, and i came to this country as a refugee ... how that sounds to you?

but as they say "Every cook praises his own broth.", so to each its own...

to the OP:

The Devil once invited the guy to Hell. The guy liked it there: a lot of booze, a lot of willing nice girls, a lot of fun.. So the guy said yea, nice, i am willing to relocate.

Upon the relocation the guys discovers himself in a big pool of shit in which plenty of people struggle to make afloat...

The guy decried to Devil: "What a hell , it was so nice and now this?"

"Well, said Devil - one should not confuse tourism with immigration !"

Good luck.
 
tortoise said:
The kids are growing up and I'm seeing less and less reason to live where I live (outside of Boston, in one of the most expensive zip codes on earth.) So I'm looking to relocate to someplace that imposes less of an overhead.

Factors to consider...

1) low cost of living
2) high quality of life
3) reliable internet infrastructure
4) time zone no "worse" than central time, USA (rules out anything west of GMT -5:00)
5) not hot (I'm a New Englander)

I'm intrigued by Latin America (highlands, obviously, for temperature's sake) and Eastern Europe (culture, time zone).

Any thoughts? Anyone?
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Go see your travel agent and you can be more specific along with getting better advice.

If not, find a magazine (lots out there) that specifically ranks locations via most of the categories you've mentioned along with other categories you should have considered. Next, go to the library or bookstore and read up on a few of the locations you've discovered from your travel agent or recommended cities in a magazine.

After that, take some vacation time and then visit those selected locations including getting the websites for the cities internet providers to learn more about the services they offer.

Get the ok from your family and then go for it.

wrbtrader
 
tortoise said:
I lived in Tokyo for three years. Remarkable place.
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It is a remarkable place. I am currently researching Cebu in the Philippines, the low cost is very attractive. Japan is not exactly cheap and I would like a few countries to have in rotation beyond just Japan.
 
NeoTrader said:
Latin America is a nest of Fidel Castro worshipers(Rafael Correa from Ecuador is a great example of this)... Stay away from it... I live in the biggest country from latin america: Brazil... And it's always the same thing: corruption, everybody expects to live at the expense of others, ignorance all around, crime... Not worth it... A few decades ago you could try Chile(even though I wouldn't), but now it`s just another communist shithole...
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What keeps you in Brazil?
 
d08 said:
Sounds like you haven't traveled that much outside of US. Been around the US and don't get me wrong, it has it's charm and the sense of freedom in the air is intriguing but with the relatively high taxes, high crime and ridiculously expensive healthcare - it's not that attractive.

Many decades ago people in Eastern Europe dreamed of America but nowadays it's just the poor Ukrainians and Moldovans who would give an arm and a leg to go to the US. This is simply because Western Europe and the Nordics are a much more of an attractive offer in almost every aspect.
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If people become too patriotic they lose their objectivity. We see this in two countries that are the complete opposite of each other but have the same lack of objectivity: USA and USSR. They both think they are the greatest and the rest of the world is sh**.
 
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