living in europe

A GIFT lol!!!
No thanks, Santa

"chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy"
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EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) writes:


You have to ASK?????? (I've been sorely tempted, too, in
view of our current government - but at my age there are too
many potential problems.)


If you have the financial means to retire, Europe can be an attractive
place to do it.

I don't even have the "financial means" to retire here in
the U.S.! Europe would add the need for health insurance -

No, it wouldn't necessarily add that. See below.

Medicare and my "Medigap" insurance won't cover me
anywhere but here (and I could hardly expect to benefit from
another country's "National Health" plan when I've never
worked or paid taxes there, and am not a citizen).

Once you become a legal resident in the EEA, you will typically be
eligible to use the health service in the country where you reside. (Is
there any EEA country where this doesn't apply, out of interest?)

The UK NHS is a good case in point. When you move here, you register
with a local health centre, and are usually appointed a specific doctor.
You're asked simply for your address. Even foreign students can benefit
from this. When I moved back to the UK after over a decade in the US,
all I had to do was say where I lived. Same thing with my partner when
he moved here from the US. IOW, there was no 'test' as to the right to
live in the country. By and large, the NHS doesn't care. There is
inevitably a little (and I think it's a _very_ little) health 'tourism'
in the UK, but the way the NHS operates, it provides services to you
when you live here. I wouldn't worry about never having "worked or paid
taxes here." That's the way the world works- people move, but the health
care systems in Europe tend to be viewed (correctly IMO) as a right, not
a privilege.

Anyway, rather than see yourself as burden to the health system or the
state, you should view yourself as a gift to the country you choose to
retire to. You will be supporting the local economy through paying rent,
buying food etc., and presumably attending the occasional opera
performance!

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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:52:54 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
wrote:

I hear they are desperately looking for foreign workers in Molvania...

For those that don't yet understand:
http://www.molvania.com

ISBN 1-84354-232-3

Just go and get the book, and figure the humour out later.
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On 19 Sep 2005 11:22:36 -0700, wrote:


amy radcliff wrote:
I am seriously considering moving to Europe (from the States). The
problem is of course the details--its overwhelming all the questions
that emerge. Could anyone recommend a place to get started? A
website devoted to Americans emigating, a book, etc? Any help
appreciated.

If it matters, employment is not a huge problem...I'm more interested
in questions of residency status, tax issues (do I pay taxes there or
in the States, for instance), qualifying for health care, and so on...
again, any help gratefully recieved.

Bulgaria is cheap.

Moldova is too.
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:12:31 +0200, Tim Challenger
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:37:59 GMT, Rita wrote:

I like clothing that can stand up without frequent laundering,

just like most of my clothes when I was a student ... ;-)

Mine too. Now I use the expression on my wife's face as a reference.
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:51:06 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:

It's the accent, not the wardrobe - although I have been
asked if I were English, a few times. (Apparently the
difference between an English and an American accent are not
quite so obvious to French and German-speakers as they are
to Yanks and Brits.)

That's everyone who can't speak it well. The general assumption is
that anyone who speaks English and has white skin is rich - probably
with good reason.
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:07:54 +0100,
(chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h
offy) wrote:

By and large, the NHS doesn't care. There is
inevitably a little (and I think it's a _very_ little) health 'tourism'
in the UK,

Unfortunately, I think there is a reason for that.

I believe it was Thatcher that was blamed for the mess that the NHS is
in, isn't it?
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:09:01 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Age is not an impediment to the acquisition of additional languages.

Yes it is. Younger people learn much more readily than older people.

As a teacher you should know that.
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DDT Filled Mormons writes:

Yes it is. Younger people learn much more readily than older people.

Young people generally want to learn more than older people.
Motivation is everything, especially in language acquisition.

However, there's no significant change in aptitude with age.

As a teacher you should know that.

I know that mythology discourages many language students before they
even begin, and provides an excuse to others who never wanted to learn
anything in the first place.

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DDT Filled Mormons writes:

That's everyone who can't speak it well. The general assumption is
that anyone who speaks English and has white skin is rich - probably
with good reason.

A tour of Appalachia can cure that easily enough.

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Magda wrote:

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:27:03 +0100, in rec.travel.europe,
(chancellor of the duchy of besses o'
th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy) arranged some electrons, so they
looked like this :

...
... What do people in Europe expect from an American?

To keep a low profile, speak softly, eat everything without making a face
and NOT start every sentence with "In America...".

That's a stereotype, maybe, but not reality. You should have met my ex-
the quietest-spoken American (or any nationality) in the world!

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