General Discussion

She's an educator with a recent achieved Phd and is thinking maybe Costa Rica where your American dollar goes a long way. She had previously thought about the Middle East as some of the Arab nations are looking for credentialed educators. They have programs where they'll put you up, no expenses hardly and you can bank your very generous salary. She was thinking five or six years there then come back here and be set with a comfortable retirement. She wold also get her retirement benefits too after many years of working here.

That of course is out now because of the war going on there in Gaza and Lebanon with potential for it to widen even more.

I reminded her that her mother and i had ventured to Rosarita, Mexico south of Tijuana on the Baja peninsula several years ago, thinking about relocating to the American ex-pat community there. We traveled there. We looked at condos, but the RE person did warn us that we'd have to hire security as bandits there prey on ex-pats. So that was out. My wife, a native New Yorker, wasn't comfortable anyway with the overall lack of amenities in the development of the small town there, including healthcare which one has to think about.

My daughter then mentioned there is a huge American ex-pat community in Guadalajara, Mexico, a big, highly developed city, deep into Mexico and with no bandit problem.

One other thing to note. Mexico just elected a woman president, a Jewish woman at that. Add Mexico to the list of other enlightened, non-misogynistic nations like the UK, India, Israel, Gemany, New Zealand and others that have elected women PMs/presidents.