Posted on 09/27/2008 8:36:33 AM PDT by newbie2008
Give it a few years until the muslim hoards migrate north..
I can think of a number of countries where I'd like to move to (I'm now retired) but being single and my family here it's kinda difficult.
I have a cousin who moved to a small island in Bocas del Toro which is in northern Panama and he and his wife are building a house there. Their goal is to build guest houses to rent and he would also do charter fishing. They're from Fla and he's alread shipped his boat down there which is good because it's a 20 minute boat ride from Bocas to his island.......
The ignorant comments by a poster above shows how little he knows about the rest of the world and thats unfortunate. People become ex-pats because they worked their butts off all their lives and are tired of the dog eat dog scene here in the U.S. They want nice weather the year round in a tropical atmosphere and a much lower cost of living.
All the articles I've read on ex-pat destinations never indicate a disgust for the U.S. as being a reason for leaving. Their choices have always been based on economics and a more relaxed lifestyle.....
Does anyone watch “House Hunters International” on HGTV?
Of course, they are just “vacation homes”, ha, ha.
The government is sucking the life out of it’s host.
I remember these same doom and gloom scenarios when the clintons were elected that we were going to be a communist state within a decade.
Tell me what country has better long term prospects than the US? Let' see:
Latin America-- turning more communist by the minute and if the commies don;t get you the drug cartels will
Mideast(Dubai type countries). I don't trust muslims and those area may turn to violent at any time.
Europe/Britain- too many muslims and already socialist
Far east/Indonseasia/Thailand. Too many muslims(indoneasia) and ripe for dictatorships and revolt . If things go down China will nationalize all US interest
Russia- yeah right
Africa- yeah right
Ex- soviet Union countries like Ukraine- 50-50 chance the russkies will come back in
Canada-moving more socialist
That leaves pretty safe countries like Iceland and some remote island countries-fiji. But they have resources (iceland)and bully countries like china/Russia will take them over in a minute if times got bad. The good old USA does not look to bad after all.
PER HGTV most are moving to the Caribbean Islands, Baja California, or Central/South American countries with stable governments.
Just do what my ancestors did after the depression - cash out and bury the money in your garden in fruit jars.
THERE - now it’s safe.
We don’t have as much capitalism in this country, since most of our manufacturing went overseas. The ecofascists closed our oilfields and claimed we don’t have any more resources, so that we had to be our oil overseas.
Now, we just spend, and send money to the Chinese and the Arabs.
They’re not leaving the country, their money is. This is nothing new. There’s hardly a patriotic business onwer left, who pays higher wages here to have american jobs and american-made goods, if they can have it made in china for less.
A ping for your thoughts
These folks don’t want to be financially raped, that’s all. They’re going to places like Switzerland and Singapore.
Switzerland and Singapore.
I don’t know. America is where everyone else escapes to. There is not other America to go to. Island nations have high taxes and high costs of living. Poor nations, you gotta pay extra for protection and to grease political palms (plus maybe learn a language).
This is the big issue. Where do the Americans escape to when America becomes blatantly, overtly fascist/socialist?
When Obamination raises taxes on the rich and business, they will move. Then Obamination will be forced to raise taxes on the middle class.
Yes. It’s not a money thing, or a lifestyle thing. It’s a FREEDOM thing.
It’s a FREEDOM thing.
Yes, its called "shrugging."
I hate to see it but I don't blame them.
LMAO when you mentioned singapore. I still say this is all about money.
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