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Surely there are some differences between Myanmar and Tokyo right? There’s a lot of countries in Asia.
Ironically some of the SEA countries probably have better medical services than Tokyo. You guys are criticizing me for calling Asia a monolith but I can assure you the difference between Tokyo and Myanmar is smaller than NYU and the Midwest
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$250,000 is more or less the median price for a house that size in Ames, IA, a university town which regularly shows up on various "Best Places to Live" lists.
This obsession with cheap places to live intrigues me. In Memphis, TN you can rent a decent apartment in a shitty part of town for $300 a month. And Memphis isn't even close to the cheapest big city in the US. In Birmingham Alabama, you can't get just as hot as you can in Vietnam, and your rent will be pretty similar. Yes, healthcare and food are more expensive, but not that much. And you'll spend less on those two t…
That's... pretty damn bizarre that you'd find it intriguing.
>In Memphis, TN you can rent a decent apartment in a shitty part of town for $300 a month.
Who _wants_ to live in the shitty part of town? You've deconstructed your own argument in a sentence.
Also, with American money you can live in Vietnam like royalty, and in an area that looks like paradise. There's a reason the places you are talking about are in the "flyover states".
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You don't have to do anything to keep your American citizenship. You can't get rid of it without a significant amount of effort.
Maybe they meant to renew the foreign visa But yeah that also wouldn’t require coming back to the US necessarily
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I'm not sure it's limited to Asian women. I believe those old white dudes who can afford it are just trying to avoid dating the stereotypical modern western girls. Here in Germany, rich guys go for a Czech, Turkish or Italian wife if they hope to have plenty of kids. And it's no secret that British guys will travel all over Europe to try their luck at dating, because apparently most aren't too happy with the supply a…
Wow, I didn't expect HN to have such red-pill-esque views, no wonder this industry has such hard time attracting and retaining female employees.
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Its not about the cheapest place to live it’s about not-Birmingham, not-Memphis The Bi-coastal Americans in this article will take communism on a bankroll over the Bible Belt, take a hint
A resort town in SE Asia is pretty nice; you also have to consider much cheaper services that you aren’t going to get in a cheap Deep South city. It has nothing to do with communism or Bible belts.
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$250,000 is more or less the median price for a house that size in Ames, IA, a university town which regularly shows up on various "Best Places to Live" lists.
Yeah but who would want to live in cold, wintery Iowa when you have the option of staying in a place that is warm year round.
Bugs. There is something to be said for a deep winter when opening a window doesn't mean invading in an Attenborough documentary worth of wildlife into your bedroom.
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$250,000 is more or less the median price for a house that size in Ames, IA, a university town which regularly shows up on various "Best Places to Live" lists.
Yeah but who would want to live in cold, wintery Iowa when you have the option of staying in a place that is warm year round.
> For the second year in a row, the world's happiest country is... Finland!
> Finland topped the list of 156 countries, which were ranked in the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network's 2019 World Happiness Report. The report ranks countries on several well-being variables including income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy and more.
> Two other Nordic countries came in second and third place, Denmark and Norway, respectively.
From https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2019/03/20/finlan...
Meanwhile, in the tropics:
> On the other hand, South Sudan ranked the least happy on the list.
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Why? Why is one large bureaucracy better than the other?
Because one isn't in an adversarial relationship with you?
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I don't really understand this. Max out-of-pocket for insurance plans now is very reasonable. If you can afford a $250k house, you can afford the max out-of-pocket cost for many many years.
I just got billed $22,000 for a rabies course and I have good insurance. Four rounds of immunoglobulins are expensive.
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Don't you also have to pay the actual insurance premium as well? Before you even get to the out-of-pocket costs? I have friends in the US who pay thousands a month for health insurance premiums.
> I have friends in the US who pay thousands a month for health insurance premiums. This sounds like an entire family with a higher-level plan, correct? Higher-level plans have correspondingly reduced out-of-pocket maximums, to the point where the out-of-pocket maximum can be as low as $2000/year — so your premium is nearly your entire spending.