Getting Old

[Bobby Cole]

That makes me think of old slapstick comedy bits about not walking under pianos being hoisted up the outside of buildings. Some people have no sense!

I just heard a story about mass numbers of people moving overseas for a cheap cost of living while they spend money sucked out of our economy via "online work" and such. Not only are the locals becoming bitter about being crowded out and priced out by these foreigners occupying housing and using health care, A.I. might make a lot of these "telework" jobs disappear before long. When the music stops will they have a chair? Or could they find themselves impoverished with no resources and among a disgruntled and less charitable community?

There have been American retirement communities in Mexico for years and years but recently, the Mexicans are pretty much wanting them to leave.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

There have been American retirement communities in Mexico for years and years but recently, the Mexicans are pretty much wanting them to leave.

This story was about recent leavings in the last few years. Mexico, Canada, Ireland, Portugal, etc.

 

[Bobby Cole]

This story was about recent leavings in the last few years. Mexico, Canada, Ireland, Portugal, etc.

Americans, especially older Americans going to live in other countries isn’t like transposing a piece of music simply by moving a couple of flats or sharps.
We seniors can barely move from one state to another without either being offensive or easily offended by something so trivial as a regional accent so how much more so if the attempt to move is to another country?

 

[Marie Miller]

Americans, especially older Americans going to live in other countries isn’t like transposing a piece of music simply by moving a couple of flats or sharps.
We seniors can barely move from one state to another without either being offensive or easily offended by something so trivial as a regional accent so how much more so if the attempt to move is to another country?

Internet is patient and rumors are persistent. A lot of destination countries have changed their immigration policies over the last few years. So called Golden Visas are getting harder to get. The last big hoopla was Portugal. Yes, immigrants moving to population poor towns receive financial incentives if they have a qualifying European citizenship and are willing to commit for x amount of time in the sticks.

 

[Bobby Cole]

Internet is patients and rumors are persistent. A lot of destination countries have changed their immigration policies over the last few years. So called Golden Visas are getting harder to get. The last big hoopla was Portugal. Yes, immigrants moving to population poor towns receive financial incentives if they have a qualifying European citizenship and are willing to commit for x amount of time in the sticks.

Back when I was fresh home from Nam, whilst the U.S. was offering 3 month early outs if we joined the Washington, D.C. police or C.H.I.P. in California, Australia was going to give us free farmland if we wanted to move there.
I don’t know all the details about the farmland but it’s possible that it might have been like the Nevada BLM in that you had to make X amount of progress in desert land for 3 years or so until one could officially claim the ownership of the land.
From my understanding, Australia isn’t as generous now as it was some years ago.

 

[Ken Anderson]

I don’t know all the details about the farmland but it’s possible that it might have been like the Nevada BLM in that you had to make X amount of progress in desert land for 3 years or so until one could officially claim the ownership of the land.

I was approved for that plan, but didn't want to move to Australia by myself and the other person opted out, so I stayed in the U.S.A. Around the same time, Brazil was offering something similar, which didn't look attractive to me.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Back when I was fresh home from Nam, whilst the U.S. was offering 3 month early outs if we joined the Washington, D.C. police or C.H.I.P. in California, Australia was going to give us free farmland if we wanted to move there.
I don’t know all the details about the farmland but it’s possible that it might have been like the Nevada BLM in that you had to make X amount of progress in desert land for 3 years or so until one could officially claim the ownership of the land.
From my understanding, Australia isn’t as generous now as it was some years ago.

Thank you for your service Bobby, I visited many of you in the early 70s at VA, Now they made it an act of congress to visit. Guess they have a reason.

 

[Bobby Cole]

I was approved for that plan, but didn't want to move to Australia by myself and the other person opted out, so I stayed in the U.S.A. Around the same time, Brazil was offering something similar, which didn't look attractive to me.

My “welcome home” was such that the idea of moving to Australia made me give it a really hard look but after talking to an Australian friend I made in Nam, the welcome home wasn’t much better there.
I did visit Melbourne and toured a little in New Zealand some time afterward but I’m still thankful I stayed in the U.S.

Just another thing:
When I had my restaurant in New Orleans, I met an old couple who offered their home for a month in New Zealand if they could stay in my house at the same time.
Apparently, there is or was some type of club whereby older retired folks could enjoy a kind of exchange program similar to what some students do.
I was by no means retired but they said they liked me and thought they could trust me as well as any senior. Obviously I thanked them but decided not to take ‘em up on it.

 

[Marie Mallory]

We were going across the Lions Bridge in St. Augustine ,Fl. and a batch of hippies were protesting the VN war. Mainly cussing the troops one stuck his head in my window, I rolled it up some on him, he backed off.
Cuss the war all you want but not the soldiers.

 

[John Brunner]

I see that Amazon has come out with a version of Echo for seniors to make our lives easier.

 

[Marie Miller]

Back when I was fresh home from Nam, whilst the U.S. was offering 3 month early outs if we joined the Washington, D.C. police or C.H.I.P. in California, Australia was going to give us free farmland if we wanted to move there.
I don’t know all the details about the farmland but it’s possible that it might have been like the Nevada BLM in that you had to make X amount of progress in desert land for 3 years or so until one could officially claim the ownership of the land.
From my understanding, Australia isn’t as generous now as it was some

My father came home with a fat glossy advertisement for Kanada. Grandfather’s brother was over there with 12 kids (widower with 6 married again) and almost his own little compound. We did read the small print and at vehicle accessible road and necessary bridges the free was not so free anymore.

 

[Ken Anderson]

I was an anti-Vietnam War protester, but never participated in anything where military people were berated. I'm not saying it didn't happen, since there are putrid people in pretty much every group, but I was involved in quite a few protests, locally and in Washington, DC, and I didn't see that. I was involved in the planning process with the War Resisters League for anti-war protests on May Day in 1971, and insulting soldiers was not part of the plan. My brother was serving in Vietnam, and he was perfectly okay with my protesting the war. He sent me a letter not long before I turned 18 that included a list of the people he was in boot camp with, and he had marked off the ones who were dead. He said, whatever you do, don't come here.

 

[Marie Miller]

I was an anti-Vietnam War protester, but never participated in anything where military people were berated. I'm not saying it didn't happen, since there are putrid people in pretty much every group, but I was involved in quite a few protests, locally and in Washington, DC, and I didn't see that. I was involved in the planning process with the War Resisters League for anti-war protests on May Day in 1971, and insulting soldiers was not part of the plan. My brother was serving in Vietnam, and he was perfectly okay with my protesting the war. He sent me a letter not long before I turned 18 that included a list of the people he was in boot camp with, and he had marked off the ones who were dead. He said, whatever you do, don't come here.

There is a wall on Elgin, FF AFB that moved from Indianhead, MD.