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Immigration and Retirement
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24 July 2008
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Title: Immigration and Retirement
Subtitle: Retirement Options
Immigration and Retirement
Where is the best place to retire? If there are no ties to hold someone in the same place, a retiree could live anywhere in the world. Most people know about the retirement communities in Mexico and Latin America. "Live like a king on just pennies a day!" Costa Rica is well known for its medical centers, and warm tropic breezes.
New Zealand has special "package deals" to offer Americans to move there. The "Lord of the Rings" movies were filmed in New Zealand, it is one of the most beautiful nations on Earth and there is even a small but growing cryonics community (New Zealand Cryonics Society), making New Zealand an temping offer.
The state of Oregon, and the countries, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland and Thailand passed euthanasia laws making it easier to die by choice if infected with a brain tumour, Alzheimer's, and/ or other neurodegenerative diseases. From a cryonics point of view, the idea is to preserve the brain as best as possible, so the future generations can repair and resuscitate a patient back to good health and Portland has a new cryonics group. (Oregon Cryonics) That is something to think about for retirement options. In addition, Oregon is a beautiful state and with euthanasia (Death with Dignity Act) as an option, it might be one of the safest places for a cryonicist to live.
Northern Scandinavian (Finland, Sweden, Norway) is also very beautiful but no cryonics groups there yet. Scandinavia has special treaties with the U.S. Social Security Office to make it easy to retire there. A log cabin in the north woods sounds very much like Henry David Thoreau, a quiet place to live. However, that doesn't mean total isolation, Oulu (Uleåborg, Swedish) is a city in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland. It is a very modern city of about 13,000 inhabitants and is the largest city in Northern Finland. "The University of Oulu is an international scientific community known for high-quality research and education that provides experts for demanding tasks on both national and international level." This would be a great place to continue education. Finland does have a high number of transhumanist; Suomen Transhumanistiliitto (Finnish Transhumanist Association) and possibly cryonics will grow into a community in the near future.
Moving anywhere, outside North America may be expensive. Europe uses 240v, 50Hz electic appliances and North America uses 120v, 60Hz electic appliances. That would mean a retiree would have to sell the T.V. and other toys before moving. In addition, the cost of moving furniture would not be cheap, it might be better to sell everything and buy new after getting there. That may be hard to do, it would be like a teenager getting his first apartment and building from scratch. Giving up everything to move isn't a easy choice. Also it would be wise to visit the area several times in different seasons to make sure that the retiree can handle the changes thru out the year.
As for myself, I have about 20 more years to work and plan as well save before making a final choice. Many areas are tempting, but the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the hill. I would have to weight the negatives as well as the positives. When I moved from Chicago to California about 20 years ago, I put everything in a U-Haul truck without doing any research. I put it all on a credit card and had to find a place to live after I moved there (Los Angeles). I got there on Thursday, unloaded the truck over the weekend and pick up an Orange County newspaper that Sunday, and filled out job applications on Monday and got a job on Tuesday. What are the chances of doing that again? It doesn't work that way very often. I want to have a plan and back up plans in place for retirement. I hope you plan your retirement too!
Word count:664
Title: Immigration and Retirement
Subtitle: Retirement Options
Immigration and Retirement
Where is the best place to retire? If there are no ties to hold someone in the same place, a retiree could live anywhere in the world. Most people know about the retirement communities in Mexico and Latin America. "Live like a king on just pennies a day!" Costa Rica is well known for its medical centers, and warm tropic breezes.
New Zealand has special "package deals" to offer Americans to move there. The "Lord of the Rings" movies were filmed in New Zealand, it is one of the most beautiful nations on Earth and there is even a small but growing cryonics community (New Zealand Cryonics Society), making New Zealand an temping offer.
The state of Oregon, and the countries, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland and Thailand passed euthanasia laws making it easier to die by choice if infected with a brain tumour, Alzheimer's, and/ or other neurodegenerative diseases. From a cryonics point of view, the idea is to preserve the brain as best as possible, so the future generations can repair and resuscitate a patient back to good health and Portland has a new cryonics group. (Oregon Cryonics) That is something to think about for retirement options. In addition, Oregon is a beautiful state and with euthanasia (Death with Dignity Act) as an option, it might be one of the safest places for a cryonicist to live.
Northern Scandinavian (Finland, Sweden, Norway) is also very beautiful but no cryonics groups there yet. Scandinavia has special treaties with the U.S. Social Security Office to make it easy to retire there. A log cabin in the north woods sounds very much like Henry David Thoreau, a quiet place to live. However, that doesn't mean total isolation, Oulu (Uleåborg, Swedish) is a city in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland. It is a very modern city of about 13,000 inhabitants and is the largest city in Northern Finland. "The University of Oulu is an international scientific community known for high-quality research and education that provides experts for demanding tasks on both national and international level." This would be a great place to continue education. Finland does have a high number of transhumanist; Suomen Transhumanistiliitto (Finnish Transhumanist Association) and possibly cryonics will grow into a community in the near future.
Moving anywhere, outside North America may be expensive. Europe uses 240v, 50Hz electic appliances and North America uses 120v, 60Hz electic appliances. That would mean a retiree would have to sell the T.V. and other toys before moving. In addition, the cost of moving furniture would not be cheap, it might be better to sell everything and buy new after getting there. That may be hard to do, it would be like a teenager getting his first apartment and building from scratch. Giving up everything to move isn't a easy choice. Also it would be wise to visit the area several times in different seasons to make sure that the retiree can handle the changes thru out the year.
As for myself, I have about 20 more years to work and plan as well save before making a final choice. Many areas are tempting, but the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the hill. I would have to weight the negatives as well as the positives. When I moved from Chicago to California about 20 years ago, I put everything in a U-Haul truck without doing any research. I put it all on a credit card and had to find a place to live after I moved there (Los Angeles). I got there on Thursday, unloaded the truck over the weekend and pick up an Orange County newspaper that Sunday, and filled out job applications on Monday and got a job on Tuesday. What are the chances of doing that again? It doesn't work that way very often. I want to have a plan and back up plans in place for retirement. I hope you plan your retirement too!
