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    What's Driving Americans to Retire Abroad? Money -- or Lack of It

    My apologies wakinwood. didn't mean to step on your link!
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    What's Driving Americans to Retire Abroad? Money -- or Lack of It

    This is a huge one for me: One of the most pressing financial concerns facing prospective retirees is whether they will have enough money to pay for medical and long-term care expenses. Health care costs have risen rapidly over the last decade and show no signs of abating. A 65-year-old couple...
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    Medical Outsourcing

    I've passed your question on. I'll let you know what an insurance contact I have in medical outsourcing says, Oliver.
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    Medical Outsourcing

    Written from the advisor perspective: FPA Journal - Medical Outsourcing: Reducing Clients’ Health Care Risks
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    Stock Market Woes

    Hint: they didn't ER. What happened to Lou Pai and the executive who ran Enron Int'l (her name escapes me).  I thought they sold out at the all time high and emerged unscathed. Or maybe you are referring to the traders - I believe many of them were nailed...
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    Money Magazine Retirement Article

    What month was it published? Is it online?
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    MADD - Why no Outrage against Cell Phones??

    Is it too much to ask that you drive with the flow of traffic, signal your intentions, plan for exits by getting in the proper lane, etc? In the Middle East? Yes! Just ask Dory... :)
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    Free Long Distance Phone Calls, On Your PC

    I use Skype in the Middle East. I'm very satisfied. A year ago sometimes the connection wasn't the greatest - echo or couldn't get through. Rarely have that problem now (probably my PC). I use Skype out ($0.02 to any land line around the world). Very satisfied. Prior to that I incurred $3,000 of...
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    My job? Living here

    We actually used to go swimming/sunbathing across from where they are building those islands. Tad industrial but where we are they seem to have stopped. Not a beach culture here, we had the place to ourselves. Boiling hot here these days. ben - let's coordinate. my plan is to do a medical and...
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    My job? Living here

    The Middle East, forget it, I can't imagine ever going near there. I'm fairly certain you are not alone (g). A different perspective: http://www.fpanet.org/journal/articles/2004_Issues/jfp1104-art8.cfm
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    My job? Living here

    mikew - Salaries were always pretty good for accountants (what I am) and business school profs (what I am, too). Things get tighter when the price of crude drops. I arrived in 1999. Maybe a little before that was differnet. I acn ask but almost everyone is on vacation. As great as the...
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    My job? Living here

    Nice to hear from the expats and hear them field the questions of folks possibly interested. I live in the Middle East and it is far more enjoyable and luxurious than most Stateside folks have been led to believe. Have been here 6 years. Considering going back (to the US) only because children...
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    ways of dealing with ER health care costs

    From lazyday, raddr-pages.com: Get on working spouse's plan -Find a great dr&hospital in Mexico near border, and live near there, in US -Volunteer for experimental treatments -Obtain citizenship in a country which is (or might in future) be in EU. When I was considering teaching English...
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    ways of dealing with ER health care costs

    X-posted at raddr- pages. Any additional suggestions? 1. overseas treatment in Thailand/India/other low cost medical tourism place. 2. get Rx meds overseas or via internet. 3. MSAs set up before entering retirement (have to confess ignorance - has to paid for with earned income, non?). 4...
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    Read Any Good Books Lately on FIRE?

    hey ES! Very nice to see you and bookm and some of the NFB others! Sorry about the way that whole thing worked out. This place seems fine and it would please me if other matters got patched up (but no pressure there - just glad to see u here). Did you introduce yourself? the '69'? It was in my...
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    Read Any Good Books Lately on FIRE?

    Is that a book, pamphlet, or a ... religious tract?? All of the above? :) I don't advocate book burning. OTOH, if it's really cold, ...
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    Read Any Good Books Lately on FIRE?

    How about Passion Savings? JWr says it's a wonderful read. :o
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