Do you have ambition to live or retire abroad?

Well, after 40 years in the U.S., I came back to my birthplace, Merida, MX. It wasn't really my idea, it was my wife who wanted to leave the U.S. I was cool living in the Carolinas (although, I had thought of New Zealand as a place I wanted to move to.).

Being here, it's 50/50. There are lots of things I miss from the U.S., and lots of things that I hate here, but the opposite is also true.

I think that a lot of people look to living in other countries as being better than living in the U.S., but without fully understanding what's like to live in those places, as they detach themselves from the social and political environments of places abroad, plus having the benefit of having the U.S. to fall back if the sheet hits the fan. I see it here among the large number of U.S. and Canadian citizens who live in the peninsula and other places in MX.

The way I see it, mostly revolves around finances. U.S./Canadian pensions go a much longer way, and medical costs are way lower (although, ironically, housing/medical prices have gone up in certain areas depending on the population of U.S./Canadian citizens who live in the area).