Zee, I may have told you this already. But that is a good looking dog you have on your title emoji. I have always had dogs, and will most likely always have one.
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Thank you good sir...
That was my best buddy Georgia...
I lost her and my mother around the same time.. I got her for my parents and she was a rescue and a wonderful dog. Well loved.
When my father passed she was great company for my mother and security. Sorry to get long winded but I do thank you. Her ashes are buried with my mother. Georgia was a talker...big and strong and full of life..but cancer doesn't care does it?
Nothing better than a good dog.
Many thanks.
If you own any firearms you might as well sell them off before you go .
Not getting political: are there many other countries where firearm access is as easy?
On the flip side, we have cheap gas and cheap cars—maybe not the cheapest of either, but perhaps a low cost of both?
Not a world traveler, so i might be wrong on both counts.
Spent a few hours reading about at a country with a reasonable high standard of living and "never" shows up on the world radar. Uruguay.
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Yesterday my buddy was trying to sell me on Uruguay. He is thinking of moving there. I haven't researched it myself.
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Funny thing is I have been in the gun business all of my life. Once i had a collection of over 1200 pcs.
Now I really don't care.
I guess age does that to you.
Over the years I sold off many but still have over a 100 or so but they could go for $$$ of course but it wouldn't bother me at all.
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Were you impressed by what you read???
Not interested. I have traveled considerably and seem to like US and specifically New England even today on this blizzard.
Texas. 
Poland, only because my parents are from Poland and I'm fluent in Polish.
I've traveled in Europe. Eastern European women are beautiful. I'd rate English women last
I've traveled in Europe. Eastern European women are beautiful. I'd rate English women last
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Already planned out.
Chang Rai, Northern Thailand.
Wife owns farmland and a nice house there. Yeah, not a bar girl. Her dad was a judge and her sister is a college dean.
It's mostly jumped from 3rd World to industrialized modern over the last 3 or 4 decades.
Major manufacturers for harddrives, motorcycles, even make Euro approved oils. Every US food franchise is there by the hundreds. 7-11 is everywhere now. LOL
Cost of living. Housing and food are cheap. Restaurants are cheep!!!!
Weather, not hot at the base of the mountains and never below the 50's F.
Large American expat population since the '60s and Embassy/Consulates, banking, insurance just routine for American "farangs".
Good medical facilities for routine stuff, though Americans tend to come home for cancer or major surgeries.
Resident Aliens can't own guns, but Thai wife can own them. Foreigners can rent at ranges and join shooting clubs. So that gets around that.
Can work if I want under new rules.
Can take my Mercedes and Motorcycles. (Wife has a Vespa in storage. FIL's old Land Rover may be a project).
Motorcycles and scooters are common transport there, not inconvenient targets for cages.
Snakes don't generally move into your house up North. Cobras tend to stay down by Bangkok and South. YAY!
Chang Rai, Northern Thailand.
Wife owns farmland and a nice house there. Yeah, not a bar girl. Her dad was a judge and her sister is a college dean.
It's mostly jumped from 3rd World to industrialized modern over the last 3 or 4 decades.
Major manufacturers for harddrives, motorcycles, even make Euro approved oils. Every US food franchise is there by the hundreds. 7-11 is everywhere now. LOL
Cost of living. Housing and food are cheap. Restaurants are cheep!!!!
Weather, not hot at the base of the mountains and never below the 50's F.
Large American expat population since the '60s and Embassy/Consulates, banking, insurance just routine for American "farangs".
Good medical facilities for routine stuff, though Americans tend to come home for cancer or major surgeries.
Resident Aliens can't own guns, but Thai wife can own them. Foreigners can rent at ranges and join shooting clubs. So that gets around that.
Can work if I want under new rules.
Can take my Mercedes and Motorcycles. (Wife has a Vespa in storage. FIL's old Land Rover may be a project).
Motorcycles and scooters are common transport there, not inconvenient targets for cages.
Snakes don't generally move into your house up North. Cobras tend to stay down by Bangkok and South. YAY!
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I'm a sucker for Latina and Asian women
Unfortunately, that's most anywhere. At least Australia and Canada still have drag racing.
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Probably France. My french is a heck of a lot better than my German and their energy policies definitely are far closer to what I align with than Germany.
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That’s a hard one. Probably the UK but then again I have a really hard time understanding accents that aren’t southern lol. So might not work out good for me. But at least they still have lots of Classic VW over there based on the pictures I’ve seen it appears they still have tons while we in the US have only a few. Maybe I’d have better luck finding me a girl there too lol 
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What is your budget? If no budget concern probably Switzerland and Netherland in the summer and New Zealand in the other summer.
Realistically, since wife is from Taiwan and we can fit in well culturally, maybe Taiwan for retirement in a less crowded area, or maybe Costa Rica if we want to be near the nature every day. If I can speak Greek maybe a non tourist island too?
If it is by myself, with no children, no spouse, just staying at home all day, and eat out a couple times a week, I do like Macau quite a bit, and it reminds me of home back in my youth in Hong Kong.
We hate super hot weather so Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand are out (I love vacation there for a week but not melting away my life there). Wife can't stand anything colder than San Francisco so many places are out (probably half of Europe). Despite no politics I do think political stability and safety is important, so many questionable places are out too (on every single continent).
Japan would be interesting until you know how stressful they try to blend in, "The nail who stands out must be hammered down" is real.
Realistically, since wife is from Taiwan and we can fit in well culturally, maybe Taiwan for retirement in a less crowded area, or maybe Costa Rica if we want to be near the nature every day. If I can speak Greek maybe a non tourist island too?
If it is by myself, with no children, no spouse, just staying at home all day, and eat out a couple times a week, I do like Macau quite a bit, and it reminds me of home back in my youth in Hong Kong.
We hate super hot weather so Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand are out (I love vacation there for a week but not melting away my life there). Wife can't stand anything colder than San Francisco so many places are out (probably half of Europe). Despite no politics I do think political stability and safety is important, so many questionable places are out too (on every single continent).
Japan would be interesting until you know how stressful they try to blend in, "The nail who stands out must be hammered down" is real.
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