Reasons To Stay In Europe/us/aus

[thaiozy]

Ok yu say yu live in melbourne not know much about the place & wouldn`t want to as I`ve been there before.

& yes i did live in australia but now only work there

I`ve read some of the replies & oh i forgot yu are looking at this from a retirees veiw.

Having understanding this is a different country things are done differently here

& as for the IMMIGRATION side of this it is a formality but hasn`t led to the caos in australia with everyone being called a racist

It`s far cheaper hear

* does`nt say much when the goverment have to give handouts to buy houses & for having babies (Probably help all of them to get hocked up to their eye balls so they`ll never complain about wages)

* Taxed to the eye balls in every department

* & as for living near the family yu don`t usually see them to often because between trying to pay the house ect ect ect ect due to the fact everything is way over priced according to wages they have little spare time & try to spend it with their immediate family

THE LIST GOES ON

The only thing i can think of that is the same cost would be Health insurance as it`s aworld wide thing

[LennyW]

Minus 18 Degrees C in Scotland, nuff said!!

[lazygourmet]

I am suprised that an OP with so much derogatory misinformation about Thailand would not be corrected by people who live here.

Because I have much better things to do... and new year resolutions regarding my answers to this forum

[hhgz]

"Reasons To Stay In Europe/us/aus, vs. reasons to move to the LOS"

If you have to ask a bunch of strangers what you should do with your life, you should stay where you are.

[Wossnext]

dam_n the uk healthcare sucks

and some think its the model america should follow.

usa , go see doctor today , if serious referral is for today or tomorrow.

Strange then that health outcomes across the population and life expectancy aren't any better in the USA (for overall life expectancy the USA ranks 38th in the world and the UK 22nd). If you have top-notch insurance, you may indeed get seen quickly in the USA. But then there are the problems of utilisation review, exclusions, pre-existing conditions and plain inability to afford cover for many. Also I'm not sure that the above post shows any understanding of the concept of referral to treatment - there is still typically a gap even in the USA. The UK waiting times guarantees I mentioned are the generic maximum waits, but for some conditions things move more quickly. For example, the English target for cancer is a maximum 4 weeks diagnosis to treatment (still a bit short of 100% but getting there). The US spends 16% of GDP on health compared with the UK figure of less than 9%. That still leaves over 40 million Americans without proper cover. The US figures for bankruptcy following illness, preventable deaths through delayed treatments and medical mistakes are pretty awful (see successive reports from the Institute of Medicine). I don't think most of the UK population would laugh if they were offered a swap: no mainstream UK political party has ever advocated that because they know it would be electoral suicide. In the USA on the other hand, public opinion seems quite evenly divided.

hi im berniefromny.

i live in usa and for gods sake , public opinion is not evenly divide, unless you call 2-1 against evenly divided. WE DONT WANT EUROPEAN TYPE HEALTHCARE where it seems part of the way to control cost is hope people die be4 its their turn to get treated.

you really need to fact check, 40 million uninsured is way too high!

part of americas problem is we are just too dam_n kind hearted, seems a lot of micrnesians come over for kidney dialysis treatment and just hop on the gravytrain.

then we need to provide security for european nations so they can muddle thru economically like a lost puppy. SOCIALISM IS FOR SOCIALIST! not free thinking americans.

whats healthcare like in thailand! im sure it prevents a lot of people from settling here.

I have another thread around here somewhere about me leaving to go back to Blighty, and a couple of my reasons for doing so.

Admittedly one of the key reasons I dont want to stay here is Healthcare, have you seen that ad in the cinema where that guy gets told he has cancer and his wife and child are suddenly homeless beggars funny ad, but it made me think about the massive cost of healthcare here (good though it is), health insurance here is bloody expensive. I would feel happier knowing that if I had a work accident or similar in the UK that I can zoom into my local hospital and get it sorted for free. Eventually .

My Wife and I are not poor by any stretch but I fear we could be if one of us got seriously ill. There are a host of other reasons I want to leave but whats the point of listing them, nowhere is perfect is it, reminds me of a mobile phone...you can never find a phone that has all the features you want, there is always something missing. Reminds me of my iPhone, no never mind let's not go there!

[Phuquephace]

I have lived everywhere in the world - the only problem with OZ is its like a retard home. Maybe a real sleepy English hollow someplace.

It is way too uptight - like organized dancing. 9-5 everything. LOS is the greatest place to live outside of MDR, CA USA - now wrecked.

I am used to the freedom - so exercise a lot of due-diligence and discipline, which a lot of folks dont have. When I am here, I work 8/10

hours per day, hit the gym, go sailing, have a few cocktails and take some lovely young lass to dinner. A no brainer. I can do that all

for about one quarter of what it would cost me in LA - without having to watch for the CRIPS or LAPD - and maybe going home alone.

Sorry to see you leave. Good posts ....... not the normal flames!!

[SeanMoran]

Dog lovers can have a good fun time in Australia now, just by catching a train.

The police have their dogs trained so well to sniff up what you had for breakfast down at the station that anyone who likes that sort of entertainment can live in bliss, everyday before catching the morning train.

Personally, I'm not all that fond of having someone's mutt play around with my behind, but that's what turns you on, then Australia might be the funhouse you're looking for.

[salty]

Football: As you begin to approach the business end of the European football season I want to be home and able to watch games in the evening and not in the middle of the night. I will not be in Thailand during the World Cup.

[CelticBhoy]

Football: As you begin to approach the business end of the European football season I want to be home and able to watch games in the evening and not in the middle of the night. I will not be in Thailand during the World Cup.

I bet some of the Irish team will though . . . .