Comments on: 10 Most Suitable Countries for American Expatriates

By: Bill and Lorna Collings

Bill and Lorna Collings — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:20:28 +0000

I’m a little surprised that the Philippines didn’t make it on this list especially since English is more widely spoken, understood than most of the countries listed. Also a large percentage of the three million Filipino Americans will be heading home during their retirement years. The Philippines also offers the easiest immigration policies in Asia to foreign retirees. Filipinos are well known as nurses and caregivers allowing the elderly to be taken care of at lower budgets than most countries listed above.

By: Scarlet Pimpernel

Scarlet Pimpernel — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:41:44 +0000

How about the governments? Suffering from an increasingly invasive, oppressive and despotic government, I am interested in a government that is freer than the USA, or at least, weak, even if corrupt.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:36:49 +0000

We love the combination of living in the Bahamas and Argentina. Best of both worlds, meaning downhill skiing in the Andes and ocean sports in the crystal clear Bahamian Atlantic. Great food, scenery and people respectively!

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:24:12 +0000

Canada seems like an obvious possibility for U.S. expats, but not on list and not even mentioned. Is it also expensive and/or difficult to get a job in?

By: Guilherme

Guilherme — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:53:28 +0000

Thats not true. If you wanna live in Brazil, you must speak at least, a little bit of portuguese, most of brazilians dont speak english, is a big and monolingual country (like China or USA). However people are usually friendly and like foreigners.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:49:25 +0000

Bruce, you’re a jerk…and you’re countries infested with black flies, I was there six months and Aussies all had a huge attitude and inferiority complex.

By: David

David — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:56:25 +0000

OMG,WOW,a few people here sound a bit disgruntled,i get a kick out of the american Bashing,im a new yorker,born and raised,lived in england for a year and traveled around a bit,i also spent 4 monthes in argentina,argentinians are funny because they liked me,but had no problem letting me know how much they hate us,lol,and the same go’s for the uk,except ireland,if it was a life or death decision to live in another country,i would pick either france or argentina,the french dont have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of,but they are HAPPY,the aregentinians dont even have the piss to put in the pot,let alone a window to throw it out of,but they are HAPPY,it is expensive to live in argentina,unless you have money in the bank in america,the peso is worthless there,and if you live in france and shop in andorra,your ok,the point im trying to make is, americans go where your going to be HAPPY,its certainly not going to be america.

By: Melma

Melma — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:16:08 +0000

What a bunch of crap. So very typical narrow minded American journalism. I just pains me that even my spell check does not understand simple English.
Who really cares where Americans go, stay home, you give anyone who even looks American a bulls eye on their back. I make sure that the Canadian flag is proudly in site wherever I go, imagine we are in North America and yet these friggen goof balls want a fence around themselves, Regan brought down the wall remember.
The cost of living in Detroit is rock bottom, go there. You can a buy a house for 6000 $$.
For all you people out there looking to buy in any Latino country, be very aware, even the local lawyers are getting into the act of ripping off touisteee. Double and triple check the source of the deal, the smell of $$$ is getting to their heads.

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:31:51 +0000

Argentina is NO GO these days. Since the 31st of October you can t even change your money from pesos to USD, Euros Swiss Francs or the like EVEN if you are a foreigner. The latest anti foreigner measure was taken recently when NON PERMANENT foreign residents had to close all their Argentine bank accounts. Why is this, other than to piss off foreigners? I know two foreigners who own property in Buenos Aires and had to close their accounts…how are they going to pay all their local bills then?
What s next? The government expropriating property bought by foreigners without legal cause, wouldnt be surprised. Stay the hell out of that country. Bear in mind that the current president there is best friends with Hugo Chavez who blames the US for giving him and the Argentine president cancer. BACKWARD countries to stay well clear of…

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:24:27 +0000

Wow! The cost to live in Brazil is NOT low. Its a very expensive place to live.