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No corporate types IS a step in the right direction. Thanks brother. You'll be staying here?

 

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The chopped responses are a result of tracking attempts and I get tired of correcting them so, let the trackers fix them.

 

Nah, the last time I drew a paycheck from a corporation was 1975. My best plan is to retire in the British Isles, far away from major cities. I figger I'll meet my demise instinctively pulling right in what should have been a near-miss vehicle collision.

 

Good for you. I can only hope God doesn't recognize class (or maybe I do). So long as he doesn't make me sit next to them (assuming they're there at all)..

 

Are there any costs/tax benefits to retiring there? Do you pay taxes in both countries? What about healthcare?

 

I don't think the top tiers worry or care about these things nationally. Don't think it matters to them (being so incredibly rich already and all). It's only the working poor that need worry.

 

I prefer to not get into my healthcare status. It's so generous it embarrasses me. Suffice it to say I'll have to pay cash up front and send claims back stateside, for small stuff. Hospitalization requires pre-auth.

 

If you think I'm anything other than lower middle class, you're wrong. I'm educated like a patrician, but I'm not one. Scholarships can buy you an education, but not acceptance at the "right sort of people, Buffy" table.

 

Let's hope that "In God we Trust" on our coinage actually represents a true God. I know I am (hoping).

 

We all think things about others that may or may not be true. I'm resigned to letting God decide who is what. Meanwhile, I just try to insulate myself as best possible and pray and thank my lucky stars I can afford to live apart from those that I don't think too much of, and be thankful I'll not have to be in a position to be under these kinds of folks thumbs.

 

At the end of the analysis, it doesn't get much better than that. Just to be clear, I live among the Amish. If it DOES go all sideways, my neighbors are the ones I want to learn my new skills from.

 

We agree on that. Imagine.

 

Lets keep the Religion discussion limited to numismatics please ( Rules).

 

Apologies. Tough to not respond to baiting on occasion.

 

Tommy, I know Kurt can be a pain sometimes, but he was playing nice here, and I saw no baiting in the previous several pages. Jim

 

@bdunnse, I have now explored U.K. emigration (I love their coinage - what could be a better retirement?) for several years. Right now, a prospective immigrant to the Blessed Plot has to prove they won't be a burden to the social safety net in Britain. Eligibility to work part time to supplement retirement income is the present bugaboo. Now IF a certain new head of state actually manages to get a free trade pact done with the U.K., as he claims he wants to, the same sort of eligibility to work there that used to attach to EU citizens MAY, just MAY, fall to U.S. citizens.

I have the time to wait for developments.

 

Back atcha there, Jim. I'm still learning what things trip your trigger. I consider it a challenge to learn it. I still find Doug less inscrutable.

By the way, Jim, in all fairness, you did miss one. The place I recommended was the site of the Chernobyl disaster.

 

As per policy: Religion, politics, World events

 

Having neighbors that livelihoods are built around manual labor from housing to carts, farming etc would be very handy in episodes of complete disaster, though lacking catastrophies of nuclear war. Learning to build by hand and have no light bulbs (in general) can be very handy. But then so are Bushwhacking skills which is a little more primitive and portable and self contained. Imagine how many cows would be poached if a true total economic disaster occurred.

If petroleum distilling stopped I'm curious how many months/years? worth of gasoline stockpiles the US has before it dissolved. Gasoline could be worth more than silver or gold.

But then one would have to learn new, though ancient ways of silver mining so we could at least maintain some value in silver as it now would be a localized economic thing. No more charts of spot silver, just pure bartering for the shiny silver stuff. I wonder how many ppl bartered Platinum away without knowing it ...


gotta learn how to Mint silver and gold coins by hand again ... grab a couple heavy hammers

 

We're all entitled to our opinions and I've already been exposed to that scenario and those cards and I came out on the short end so.