At what age do you want to retire?

[nffc]

Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for cheap healthcare and a decent standard of living

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-25/americans-are-retiring-to-vietnam-for-cheap-health-care-and-a-decent-living-standard

via https://www.reddit.com/r/VietNam/comments/egdgdg/americans_are_retiring_to_vietnam_for_cheap/

[Mackin USA]

NFFC:

How do the healthcare quality and access in NAM compare to the UK?

[nffc]

Quality is bordering on excellent at the right hospital, Singapore is world class and a 3 hour flight away.

Only contact I have had was pre-wedding. You need a compulsory "check you not crazy" visit with a doctor. We added on a bunch of blood tests, heart check, blood pressure, chest x-ray and lots more I can't remember. Was around 5 hours in total. $100.

The hospitals catering for the locals won't meet your needs. Had a friend whose wife gave birth, was 3 in a bed!

[nffc]

Pricelist attached, hospital is like a 5 star hotel.

1 million VND about $43

[littleman]

Nice that it is all listed with the price like that.  A major concern in the US is just figuring how much a visit/procedure will actually cost.

[Rupert]

Presidential suite... nice 43M VND

[ergophobe]

Nice that it is all listed with the price like that.  A major concern in the US is just figuring how much a visit/procedure will actually cost.

If hospitals in the US were required to post their prices, that would be a huge help just by doing that. In a country that sings the praises of the free market and competition all the time, there is no access to the information that would make a free market possible. Unless you think cartels are free markets (which from an extreme perspective, they are).

[nffc]

Presidential suite... nice 43M VND

23 million

Half tidy too.

[Rupert]

23 million

oops.. a dyslexic reading numbers sideways.

Love the Chair! Bet it massages too.

[nffc]

>Love the Chair! Bet it massages too.

Many homes have them, they crazy about the massage thing.

[rcjordan]

We are heading for a pensions apartheid | Coronavirus pandemic | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/heading-pensions-apartheid-200401062821093.html

[Mackin USA]

"This is not the sort of thing they teach at school - but perhaps it should be."

[rcjordan]

IIRC, North Carolina schools were going to require a high school course in personal finance.  ....That was back when we had schools.

[gm66]

I thought i had a vague idea about my retirement until i read this thread, now i have a very vague idea!

Can't be sitting around fishing like the Brazilian guy in the story (a natural, philosophical thinker he is, don't know why i'm phrasing like Yoda), i like having projects, preferably money-making ones. But beyond hobbies, and travelling if i can, is pets or looking after animals on a larger scale. I don't even have savings so starvation will probably get me.

[rcjordan]

^{The flip side of low interest rates:}

Do you really need $8 million saved up for retirement? - MarketWatch
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/do-you-really-need-8-million-saved-up-for-retirement-2020-09-11