Americans are retiring to Vietnam

Re:Americans are retiring to Vietnam by tehlike on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:29PM (#21886954)

I am from Turkey but living in US for 10 years now, and plan to retire in a low-cost area within the US, despite the fact that Turkey would have been much cheaper - but states is home now.

I don't think what you say is remotely true, though. Sure if you plan to live in high-cost areas in Europe, healthcare would be expensive, but taking Turkey as an example, the healthcare is very reasonably priced even in top private institutions, compared to what they would be in the US.

I do not have first hand experience for critical surgeries, but i have a recent experiences and learned what the price would be in Turkey.

Labor: US: $40K, Turkey: ~$2K. Dental implant: US: $6K, Turkey: $660

They are both pre-insurance, though.

The same should follow for critical surgeries like healthcare, cancer, etc.

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Re:Americans are retiring to Vietnam by bane on Thursday December 26, 2019 @05:01PM (#21887201)

> I don't think what you say is remotely true

I think you exactly confirmed what I said.

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Re:Americans are retiring to Vietnam by iudqnolq on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:16PM (#21888588)

I don't. Care to expand on that?

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Re:Americans are retiring to Vietnam by bane on Thursday December 26, 2019 @10:07PM (#21888825)

> The intersection of decent cost of living, close to medical facilities, high quality medical establishment, and affordable medical care leaves not too many places in the world.

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Re:Americans are retiring to Vietnam by tehlike on Friday December 27, 2019 @12:58AM (#21889531)

My point is, i think there are _plenty_ of places like that.

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