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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
I always thought to myself that if I have no money for some reason when I retire, living in a place like Vietnam or Thailand would be cool. You could stretch your budget pretty far, much more than you could in Canada.
Although I'm sure I'm missing something here that others have already looked into.
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Vietnam is kickass. I wouldn't live in a big city like Ha Noi or HCMC (too crazy busy all the time), but somewhere like Da Nang is heaven, and like you said, dirt cheap. I spent a week or so there, and had the same retirement thought you did. My buddy (a Saskatchewan boy who had never seen an ocean until he was 23) lives in Ha Noi and just bought land in Da Nang; apparently he isn't planning on leaving any time soon.
For me, now that I live somewhere that has good weather, it would be really hard to live anywhere in Canada again other than southeast Vancouver Island.