[AGL] Where to live? UK Junior

[michelemason]

Yes, so I've found. I'm either self-emp, or retired. Still have enough 
to look impressive—no drain on public funds.  mm	

On Sep 30, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Frances Morey wrote:

> Citizenship is apparently a live-and-work-in proposition, at least in 
> the UK.
> Frances
>
> Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
>> That IS interesting.
>>
>> Do you recall what it provided? Or better yet, what the URL listing 
>> was? I
>> can look up these things meself ya know.
>>
>> wgJ
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "michelemason"
>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
>>
>> Cc: "michelemason"
>> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior
>>
>>
>> > When I researched Ireland health care, I found one could buy 
>> private care
>> > for $20.00 mo. mm
>> >
>> > On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:
>> >
>> >> It is my understanding that to get the so-called "free" drugs, one 
>> pretty
>> >> much has to be a "citizen". Otherwise...not qualified. If one has
>> >> money, then one can always get "private" care, just like here, in 
>> all the
>> >> Brit Commonwealth countries I believe. If one is dependant on the 
>> public
>> >> health plan (whatever it is called) one had better have a healthy 
>> heart
>> >> and/or a high tolerance for pain and suffering. 18 months is a 
>> long time
>> >> to wait for an emergency appendectomy. Ahhh, I know, ranting again.
>> >>
>> >> What good are "free" drugs if the local "doctor" is consulting 
>> chicken
>> >> spleens or reading charts which tell them which banana is active 
>> in which
>> >> cabbage patch for that date. Or similar.
>> >>
>> >> We lost two friends to undiagnosed or unrecognized cancer who 
>> moved to
>> >> and lived in beautiful San Miguel, so my opinion of Mexican medical
>> >> diagnostic skills are rather on a par with my opinion of Barbara 
>> Bush's
>> >> sensitivity to social problems.
>> >>
>> >> France and Germany have good doctors and great facilities as do 
>> most
>> >> Scandanavian countries. Some of the worlds' best "eye doctors" 
>> work in
>> >> Portugal for reasons entirely beyond my ken.
>> >>
>> >> wgJ
>> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "michelemason"
>> >> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
>> >>
>> >> Cc: "michelemason"
>> >> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:05 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Remember dear, it has to be where meds are free, or nearly. mm
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sep 28, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> big prize for best recommendation of where to move to never
>> >>>> having been there onself.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I met a Kiwi once who swore he would never go back to NZ.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I recommend Nova Scotia & San Diego
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>> From:
>> >>>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 
>> 60s"
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:59 PM
>> >>>> Subject: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Had to put my two cents' worth in.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> From everything I've heard New Zealand is incomparable for the 
>> type
>> >>>>>> of
>> >>>>> civilized, comfortable, environmentally-stable refuge you are 
>> talking
>> >>>>> about.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Two grand islands with a total population of around three 
>> million, a
>> >>>>> reasonably healthy if sluggish economy, and a welcoming people.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Square as Jehovah's Witlesses from what I am told but I have 
>> enjoyed
>> >>>>> my
>> >>>>> contacts with Kiwis (Ozzies not so much).
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Of course I've never been there (snicker). That would have 
>> spoilt my
>> >>>>> power
>> >>>>> of recommendation.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Seriously though... Just don't go expecting to try to do 
>> business or
>> >>>>> make
>> >>>>> money (the bane of energetic ambitious Canadian immigrants as 
>> well...)
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
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