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Subject: Re: What parts of Asia would you most want to spend your retirement in ? Posted on: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:10:05 MEST

Tchiowa wrote:
> Dieter Aaaa wrote:
>> Tchiowa wrote:
>>> Dieter Aaaa wrote:
>>>> Tchiowa wrote:
>>>>> dapp64@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>>> If money wasn't a limitation, what parts or area/s of Asia would
>>>>>> you most like to spend your retirement in and why ?
>>>>>
>>>>> There are very few parts of Asia that have an infrastructure that
>>>>> is up to Western standards.
>>>>
>>>> What exactly do you mean by "infrastructure" ?
>>>>
>>>> High speed internet ?
>>>> Highways ?
>>>> Hospitals ?
>>>> Justice ?
>>>
>>> How about clean drinking water?
>>
>> That's a big problem here in some parts of Europe, not in the cities
>> i mentioned.
>>
>>> Reliable electricity?
>>
>> Can be easily resolved with a generator
>
> True. But then that's not "infrastructure", is it? You can always "get
> around" various problems. That's OK when you're 19 and drunk half the
> time. When you get old and lazy and retire you don't want to be
> fighting the system like that all the time.

I know exactly what you mean.
Most of these issues you can resolve with a wide network of reliable friends
and with some money.



> At least I don't. ;-)

I hope that i will be able to "fight the system" for the rest of my days.
But maybe you're right, it's some time ago that i was drunk.
;-)