"why to live on beggar pension in one of the most expensive country in the world called OZ when you can leave as an king in Thailand average annum income $ 8500 or in Fiji $ 4000 ?"
possibly off the subject of super and possibly not.
Living somewhere cheap has always interested me - if it meant that I could retire in luxury 20 years or so earlier.
30 years ago, I think I would have seriously entertained the idea - Spain was cheap at one point and I did give it a cursory thought.
But now - age 60. Even though I am seen by most of my friends and peers as adventurous - the thought of living out my life somewhere like Thailand or Fiji is - well, bloody awful really.
Yes I agree that living in Australia on a poverty pension wouldn't be the best thing - but since there are long friendships in place and since I know the 'system' far more intimately - and places like Thailand and Fiji even though there are lovely people there - would just be so 'foreign' at the best of times but - I can't imagine in the last days of one's life - how dammmed insecure one could feel.
For me it beggars belief that someone could leave their county if it were stable to find a 'better' life in an undeveloped nation.
I have older friends who came here from South Africa a few years back - but their kids were all here and from what I have heard I think they were mad not to be here years and years ago - the place is anything but stable and anything but safe.
Not the same but I feel somewhat similar about Thailand and Fiju -- different language, Thailand can't control everything insider their borders, horror stories about health if something goes wrong. Fiji - coups and god knows what.
At least in Australia you can have a cheap cuppa and whine in plain English to your neighbour about the limited pension and how you can only afford 6 beers a week.
I am open to discussion on this, don't get me wrong. But I have thought through this a lot and even considered living half of the year in Germany and the like - but even that has it's drawbacks.
Australia may have it's downside, but really, most migration is to australia - not away from it ------------ I don't think there are any secret why that is.
