This is AMERICA ONLINE, so I will assume this blog largely elicits responses from Americans. What a bunch of garbage this story is! This piece was written with vacation goggles on! Okay, so what do you do when you want to buy supplies for your hobby? Food shopping in a bright, clean supermarket with food from all over the world like we have at Whole Foods or even Publix? Air conditioned malls with ample parking and great stores? Movie cinemas, hospitals, dentists, doctors,etc.? After you visit the beach 100 times or so, play golf at the courses you can afford on your retirement, and start treating your skin cancer, there's little else to do. Spain (where all the Brits and others have been buying and building throughout Andalusia) is beautiful, so is France, but again, very expensive with the Euro @ 1.42 vs. the $, so your retirement funds will run out more quickly, and again, even though we are technically talking FIRST world countries as opposed to Mexico, we are still NOT talking US level conveniences that we Americans take for granted far too easily thanks to our idealistic Lefty media outlets knocking the US all the time -- like AOL. Bottom Line, retire in Florida, Arizona, Calif, Nevada, etc., volunteer with kids schools and day cares or anyplace else, retain the access you take for granted to so many plentiful and vital services and travel to Mexico, Spain etc., have a blast but see the forest through the trees.

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