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Where to Retire To ?

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  • atush
    atush Posts: 18,731 Forumite
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    gfplux wrote: »
    I was born in the midlands and lived and worked in London for many years
    I have been retired for some time and live permanently in Luxembourg. This is a modern country with very good infrastructure. A great health service and modern theatres, museums and concert hall. The multiplex cinema shows all films in original language with English and American films out at the same time if not before the UK. So for me everything I need.
    Being in the centre of Europe it is (normally) colder in the winter and warmer in the summer than the UK.
    We have and do spend time in Florida and the South of France and also a couple of weeks in England.
    All these places have the pluses and minuses and in a perfect world we all probably would like to spend some time in lots of different place.
    However in my opinion, good infrastructure and in particular a good and well funded health service becomes the most important thing as you get older.

    I went to luxemborg once, in the 80's. i walked from my hotel were I was staying on a study trip to a nearby restaurant and saw 2 ferraris and a lamborgini in one block lol.
  • Triumph13
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    gfplux wrote: »
    I was born in the midlands and lived and worked in London for many years
    I have been retired for some time and live permanently in Luxembourg. This is a modern country with very good infrastructure. A great health service and modern theatres, museums and concert hall. The multiplex cinema shows all films in original language with English and American films out at the same time if not before the UK. So for me everything I need.
    Being in the centre of Europe it is (normally) colder in the winter and warmer in the summer than the UK.
    We have and do spend time in Florida and the South of France and also a couple of weeks in England.
    All these places have the pluses and minuses and in a perfect world we all probably would like to spend some time in lots of different place.
    However in my opinion, good infrastructure and in particular a good and well funded health service becomes the most important thing as you get older.

    Shhhhhssh!!!

    Luxembourg is far too small a country to risk telling anyone how nice it is (especially the Petite Suisse) You'll be swamped!
  • Dorset is beautiful, somewhere like Weymouth. Devon has coast and moorland. Cornwall gets very bust in summer months due to tourist trade. Enjoy your retirement!
  • chucknorris
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    kidmugsy wrote: »
    Well of course it is, in summer at least. Where did I say otherwise?



    Where did I say that you said otherwise? I was merely explaining why I probably wouldn't want to live in the North again and that is because warmth is more important to me. Not hotter summers, but earlier Springs and longer Autumns, that make my outdoor activities more enjoyable, I'm not actually a fan of hot weather as I find it uncomfortable to run and cycle in.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • gfplux
    gfplux Posts: 4,985 Forumite
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    Triumph13,
    I am not worried as no one believes how great it is.
    There will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.
  • gadgetmind
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    atush wrote: »
    i walked from my hotel were I was staying on a study trip to a nearby restaurant and saw 2 ferraris and a lamborgini in one block lol.

    You can do that in my cosy corner of Yorkshire, but the weather is pants.
    I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.

    Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
  • simonfitba
    simonfitba Posts: 176 Forumite
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    gadgetmind wrote: »
    You can do that in my cosy corner of Yorkshire, but the weather is pants.

    Aye but the Ferraris and Lamborgini belong to you, don't they Gadget? :rotfl:
  • atush
    atush Posts: 18,731 Forumite
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    Probably lol.

    BTW when I lived in Jersey, my local garage was a ferrari dealer lol. Out in the middle of the nowhere (for there). But they still replaced my battery at a very cheap price for my little mazda with the twins crammed in the back in 2 car seats lol. The sold fairly normal priced petrol too.

    They did have a little battery run Ferrari for little ones, but at 3K it was too rich for my blood lol I'd bought a house over the water in france for 5.
  • gadgetmind
    gadgetmind Posts: 11,130 Forumite
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    simonfitba wrote: »
    Aye but the Ferraris and Lamborgini belong to you, don't they Gadget? :rotfl:

    No, I've never been that flash (my daily commute is by bicycle!) and I also have a deep distrust of anything made in Italy that has moving parts.

    I had a business partner who was into Ferraris, and an FA with a Lamborgini (and a Ferrari F40 and an Aston Martin, etc.!) and let's just say that neither experienced anything other than frustrating unreliability.

    I've also got neighbours with a Morgan, a Jag XK8 and two Range Rovers, so couldn't keep up even if I was that way inclined.
    I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.

    Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
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