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I'm retired, but I'm not yet old enough for Medicare, so my husband and i have health insurance through the teacher retirement system. I pay $700 monthly, but I have to pay $3000 before it covers anything, which only happens in about November. So I get one month of coverage after paying $8000 in premiums. But if i give it up and have something major happen I'm up a creek.
In our opinion, ETIAS is not a big deal. It's a simple online application to fill out and €7 application fee and is valid for three years. Especially when you compare it to the hoops the US requires many travelers to jump through to enter, ETIAS is not that bad.
St.ciryl and methodius are the monks that invented the cirylic alphabeth arround 800s a.d.,they were brothers and even went to visit the pope and to present him the new script,also the bulgarian language destroyed the so called three language dogma wich say you can preach the gospel only in greek,latin and hebrew,the bulgarian language was the fourth officially recognised by the eastern and western churches,so we had the privilage to listen to service in our mother tongue ,smth that in the west happened 600years later during the reformation ,before that the services were in latin only,today every year a delegation from bulgaria and north macedonia(it is infact one country) go to the vatican and to the pope to celebrate the alphabeth in 24th of may when the celebration is,one of the bigest fests in bulgaria and the brother monk are proclaimed saints by the two churches
The person kn the 10 leva bill is named doctor petar beron and is famous for thd making of the first bulgarian textbook,the so called fish textbook because of the oicture of a fish on it,also doctor beron invented the first in the world electric machine for recognising the gender of the baby,before it is born
Americans are not friendly because they are worried they will be shot if they are not. That is nonsense. Violence is up because American youth are raised on violent video games. From an early age kids spend hours in front of video games and on social media- both a waste. And if you visit only CA when you return to the states for visits you are seeing only the extremes. I would never live in CA again either.
After traveling around the world I learned that Americans are the most propagandized people on earth, second to North Korea, maybe. Read “manufactured consent” by Chomsky
You have to bear in mind that in countries where services seem really cheap to people from the west usually the ordinary native population have a correspondingly low wage.
Guns are out of control in the US. Even the “liberal” Presidential candidate has one. It will never be a great place to live as long as you have to worry about your young children being shot at school.
So true! We spent 12+ years overseas while in the military and we loved it! We’ve been in the states for 25 years and I’m ready to leave now that I’ve retired.
You just put a half of a continent and small countries side by side. I suppose you don't even thought about that. Besides, you don't know the difference between a rich and a Poor country! How is that possible?!
That is a rediculas stayment .You could compare to Russia or China or Australia if you want ...I've been in all 3 too, too. Nothing or very little would change in that comparison. Sorry.
I understand why the US in particular needs gun freedom as a world power, and I don’t want to change that. But anyone who has isn’t gun fearing to some degree is a fool. Life in Australia is great, no matter where I go, the worst thing I could possibly encounter is a knife and even then I can just run away.
I'm Canadian and my husband and I totally agree with everything you said! Canada is really no better than USA and we plan on retiring early and traveling abroad FYI we have friends in Peru and have traveled there a lot and love it! Best of luck to you both
Why? just because you have American Passports that you seem to think you can travel more freely than any other country 🙄 Typical American arrogance and stupidity! 🙄
Apparently it does matter what kind of passport you have. Uyen has a yt channel where she talks about the difference btwn her Vietnamese passport and her German bf's.🤷♀️
The right says the exact same thing, please consider the possibility that half the country voting Republican truly want a better America rather than just shifting all blame to the right…
Wow! I am new to your channel. I couldn't agree more about life in the United States. I found myself agreeing with everything you said. I have the desire to travel, am burned out on my career and looking for a change. We're almost empty nester but not "old enough" for retirment and love to travel. Any suggestions from expats would be so helpful. We have traveled to several countries in our early marriage and fell in love with it. So while not seasoned, we're also not newbies. It would be so amazing to sit down over dinner and discuss everything you posted here!
Just wondering... what do you guys do for a living and you are able to travel so much outside of the country? Im a nurse so i am bound to where i live. If i don't work, i cant travel and pay all those expenses, even if rent is much cheaper than what i pay in the US. And that is majority of the US citizens. So yeah the grass is greener but not really
Great video. You did a great job of expressing your thoughts and hit most of the compelling points! When you have children, particularly if you have a special needs child, the nomadic moving is hard, but finding one village or location could well be an option. As I businessman, I have worked and visited countries all across the world. As a family we lived in Asia and Europe and the UK. But getting kids adjusted to differing education, language and culture is non-trivial. Thankfully, we had corporate relocations that helped with a lot. But for the two of you, and for many couples that are retiring, I admire your spirit of adventure, your appreciation of the good and bad of the US and the happiness the two of you have! And by the way, I think that very watch dogs that should be protecting the American people like the FDA, are severely compromised and so there are hundreds if not thousands of chemicals and additives in US ultra-processed foods that are killing our population including our children that are not even legal in most other countries to consume.
You're expected to tip in Mexico, especially the person bagging your groceries, as your tip is part of their only wage. But tips are expected for waiters, and taxi drivers as well. Your trash pick-up service people love tips if you can catch them, too.
After working 20 years internationally, my family and I returned home for retirement. As a Canadian we dont share all your concerns with our home as in the US, but, i have to agree with a lot of your points. The reason for our return was because of family and open space. I like my space, I like going into nature without crowds. International travel is the greatest eye opening experiences one can have. I dont regret any of it, and remain open to wandering off at some point. Nationalism is a disease.
I'm watching your trip series because of family pressure to visit but there's no way I'm driving there. That being said I have a hypothesis which may explain the erratic driving habits you've observed in Bulgaria: you see, men are incredibly repressed at home (they marry and breed at a very early age) so the last remaining playing field where one is permitted to express any free will is the open road. So next time some crazy driver passes you at a tiny margin of error think of it as therapy. Let them have a moment of freedom, even at the expense of taking risks. That opinion, of course is mine and subject to criticism :)
Guess you haven’t lived in England or Canada and paid rent, taxes or accessed their government run healthcare systems. The US wasn’t created for cars. They only became a typical family fixture after world war II. What the US has that many of the places you mention doesn’t have is space. It is also a reasonably new country. Europe is how it is because when villages and towns developed 1. people were on foot and 2. they had to fortify their places against their enemies’ attack. Likewise in Asia. It wasn’t to do with some awesome forethought by the town planners. Seems your big concern is the lack of safety net in the US. Heaven forbid people take care of themselves and their family themselves like they did in Europe and everywhere else until the recent past. Norway does have a great gov’t run childcare however, they are taxed so heavily mothers don’t have the choice not to go back to work. They also rarely eat out or do other extra things because their disposable income is limited. A little closer look under the rug, so to speak, would provide you with the not so great aspects about living anywhere. I lived in China, which I thoroughly enjoyed, where no one is free unless you are a foreigner with an escape route. I've lived in 4 countries, 2 in North America, one in Europe and one in Asia. Not originally American, but from my perspective it is, with its issues, the freest, least discriminatory, most protecting of individual human rights country on earth. There are things I miss about living in other countries and, given the opportunity, I would move overseas again on a temporary basis. If you never want to return to the US then maybe you should give up your citizenship and the privileges that affords. BTW I never tip 20% and only tip in cash less than 15%. No ones business but mine and the server how I access service.
