SUPPOSEDLY the BEST EXPAT COUNTRIES 🤨 

This is not our list. It’s from the InterNations Expat Survey as we mentioned in the very beginning of the video: www.internations.org/expat-insider/2022/best-and-worst-places-for-expats-40242

One thing to keep in mind is InterNations isn't focused on retirees. There are a lot more people working overseas for corporations than are retired. InterNations focuses on all expats. So a professional considering an overseas transfer might have very different priorities than a retiree. Like schools, entertainment choices, etc.

I'm Canadian 🇨🇦. Quality of life is dropping sharply with the high cost of living, and unrealistic cost of housing. I'll likely never own a house if I stay. Assisted death is also a concern here now, and is becoming offered more and more often. Our Healthcare is awful. Sorry, but I wouldn't recommend coming here. It is beautiful though 👍

I became a US Expat almost nine years ago now. My choice of home was Spain (Malaga, to be exact). Becoming a part of Costa del Sol is something I've never regretted. Culture, food, people, high quality of life. Re English not being popular, that depends on the region. English is widely spoken in Andalucia, especially Costa del Sol. US doesn't come close in ANY way.

I love that way you two do these videos. Love your humor, too! Please keep these types of videos coming.

I am from Canada. For me, the biggest factors in my interest in relocating when I will be retiring in a few years is the harsh winters and the high cost of living

Nice change of pace video guys. More of these would be appreciated. Great to see world wide rankings, etc.

Bangkok is one of the "safest" big cities I have ever been to/lived in. Safer than large cities in Europe, American and South America.

Though I am curious about many foreign countries, I draw the line at authoritarian governments. There must be a democracy index somewhere to indicate how open a given country is. CEO magazine would definitely not care about such things because corporations are generally dictatorships, but I think the average person would.

My understanding is that there are more archaeology sites in Mexico than any other country, something like 30,000. I have visited maybe 20 of them and would like to see many more. There is a lot of culture that gets missed if you only visit resort areas. And if you're going to live there, why shop at Costco and Walmart when you could be supporting a local family who owns a small shop?

Well researched and presented, thank-you:)

No Northern European country on the list surprises me. They rank on the very top on every list, financial, happiness, education, safety, stability of government, rich, quality of live, you name it. And as a bonus for me personally, less hot weather, I absolutely hate the heat 😅

Thank you for this list Amelia & JP!!

Great video! Thanks for including U.S. and Canada for comparison👍👍

Yup, Taiwan for the win. Here for work, just a few more years to get permanent residency. Health care incredibly great and efficient deliver- can make appointment online in English at the hospital I go to (outpatient)- can get same-day or, at worst, within a week for a specialist. Great detailed physicals (all-day ones, check out EVERYTHING) you can do for several hundred dollars. Only downside is scooters (noisy, everywhere, sometimes on sidewalk) and learning Mandarin. In my 3rd year of learning and I am still pretty bad but reading and writing is getting pretty good (a couple thousand Chinese characters at this point as I had studied Japanese for 6 years). At 59, learning a totally new language is that much more difficult. Rent is reasonable but buying a condo/flat is crazy expenisive. But easy to do with 1.5 interest rate...

My son lives in Khaosiung, Taiwan. He has been there for 9 years. It is such a friendly and safe place to visit. We love it there. I agree with the air quality issue but the east coast is wild and beautiful.

We came to Cuenca Ecuador last sat. It's a Amazing country , the food is to die for. We love Cuenca because of the historic area .

At 14:50 you had me going for a second. I said to myself wow, how did they pull that off? LOL.

Thanks for the informative video. We have added a lot of these places to our bucket list of countries to visit!

Fantastic job as usual 🎉

My girlfriend came from Ecuador. We go to Ecuador yearly. My first time going there was a huge culture shock and the traffic in Quito is something else lol

There’s actually over 2million expats in Mexico, I just saw it last week in CNN how they are going in waves from Canada and U.S. to live there. Not to mention that Mexico City is attracting many more for remote work. And because it’s a city with a tremendous size it has everything… has incredible night life, is super modern, is also very colonial. High end restaurants and skyscrapers and little food gems only locals know. I can’t wait to go back.

Thanks for the video, you 2. First time viewer of your channel. I loved it. Saludos desde Panamá!

I'm 55 and retired living abroad. I'm currently in Malaysia. I love SE Asia, but the logistics are a problem. I left Thailand after 2 months because the language barrier was annoying. Malaysia is better, but the logistics are still problematic. I was in Mexico earlier this year and culture and logistics are a lot like the U.S. I will give Ecuador a shot, but I think my bliss will be in Mexico.

Great video guys ❤❤

Indonesian here. I am quite surprised that Indonesia ranks high here. I think Indonesia is good for tourists, but still not really prepared for outsiders to live in for long time, unless they live in Jakarta and Bali, perhaps.

Spain's electricity prices are off the charts. Food prices have risen a lot. It is VERY expensive to cool your house in the summer and keep warm in the winter.

Mexico!!!!! I moved to Mexico City from the U.S. last year and honestly (for me personally) there is no comparison. I disagree wholeheartedly on the U.S. rankings, but maybe I'm missing something..

Hi Amelia & JP, I follow you on your videos, you are great and the info you provide is very useful. I am 60 and provably I will live abroad, so I am planning to visit Cotacachi next year and if we like it , live there as retired. Thank you, Lila from Ontario, Canada 😊😊😊😊😊😊

Thanks guys. I retired after a number of health issues, convinced my wife to sell our house in May (at a good time) and then we moved to DFW. I'm not particularly happy here and have tried to get my wife to look at expat life but she is from Russia and likes the U.S. and doesn't quite understand why I want to get off the treadmill.

Philippines, Cambodia, New Zealand, Chile, Panama, Uruguay, Belize, Hong Kong, I think should have also been added.

These global “safety” indexes are pointless and irrelevant, unless you have no choice on where you live in any given country. There are completely safe and also dangerous places to live in every country.

I’m not sure how the Philippines didn’t make the list unless it’s bc it’s heaven on earth for single men and there aren’t too many expat Couples here. The Philippines is beautiful with amazing beaches and beautiful mountains. Yes Manila is overcrowded so don’t stay there. With 7k islands to choose from there are many good choices. A nice house can be rented from $350 to $600 and healthcare is very good. While you can survive on $1k a month you can live like a King for $2,500 and up. It’s actually difficult to spend $2k a month here.

Perth is most definitely the finest city in Australia. It has weather like the Los Angeles area but no smog, no huge crowds, unpolluted water, and friendly folks! Awesome place to live with top quality health care too!

So fascinating to see the USA ranked so poorly on safety when all Americans talk about is how dangerous every other country is. Thanks for sharing this info.

Australia is crazy expensive

Great presentation. Thanks.

Hey hey hey, that was a great joke. Second he said it I started laughing.

I really can't wait to get to Ecuador 🥰

Amelia & JP, your good assessment on living in Ecuador is very appreciated.

You two look great and completely relaxed. My wife and I enjoy watching your videos. Thank you for the great content.

Awesome Video! Thank you. I would retire in Thailand because I can speak Thai but I would love to visit Spain and Portugal because of their food and wine Lol 😅. By the way, JP you are have a good sense of humor.

Both of you together remind me of the Ecuadorian Queen, starring Amelia as Hepburn and JP as Bogart.

Hey you two, set me up with an Omaze tiny home in Cuenca and I’ll be there.😆 Thanks for doing this, very interesting. You both are fun to watch. Cheers!

Southeast Asia region has some recommended countries to live : Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, The Phillipines and Vietnam. In fact, they are in the same umbrella of ASEAN. (Association of Southeast Asian Natons). If you stay in one of those countries, you'll be easily traveling to the other countries above.

Keep in mind that Taiwan and Vietnam don't have retirement visas and Indonesia's requires you to hire a full time Indonesian. Australia and Canada don't really want anyone over 50. Internations is geared towards expats who are working.

Sorry for my bad English (even), sometimes I use Google Translate..., lately waves of retired people of economically active age have been coming to some central neighborhoods of CDMX, most of them come from the USA and Canada, they arrived with the pandemic and many stayed, life here is much cheaper for them and it seems that they adapt easily to the lifestyle and culture, the language is not really a barrier, many people speak it in those colonies, the bad thing is that with them gentrification has arrived and for the locals who live in these areas it is not very pleasant, en fin, it benefits some and others not so much, welcome.

Have lived in Singapore for 20+ years, so I know a thing or two. Yes, you can get a mortgage as a foreigner, but you'll need to since the cheapest thing you'll be getting into will be US$1 million, plus a hefty downpayment and stamp tax before that mortgage gets written. And you're only good to 65 to hold a mortgage. Education is good, but it's impossible to get foreign kids into the local schools; international schools are about US$35-40,000 a year. Inflation is as bad as the States or Europe, and cars are the most expensive in the world and you'll only own them for 10 years before you need to either turn it in to the government, or buy another license to own it for another 10 years called a Certificate of Entitlement (now going for about US$60,000 just for the license for small cars, this doesn't include the price of the car which has been marked up 100% of the retail price). Don't live here unless you're making loads of dough here, or are super rich.

Hello amalia ..thank you for sharing place .this is amazing very good .thank you for information I hope stay connected and each watching

Many of these ratings do not reflect the realities. Not sure how and why Canadian healthcare system was rated so high? For example, yes, healthcare in Canada is almost free to Canadians and legal residents, with one notable exception - until one reaches retirement age, he/she needs to pay for the drugs. But, as Canadian living in US I checked recently how long it takes there to get a procedure such as MRI - average wait time in the province of Ontario is 4 months! Just across the border in Buffalo, NY I was able to get an MRI done the next day(!) for a modest fee of $ 450. And this applies to basically all medical procedures outside of GP competency. Appointments to see a specialist take months to setup and you won't be allowed to see a specialist unless your family doctor refers you there. What Canada is now famous for is MAID program - that stands for Medical Assistance in Dying, that is offered to many impaired or disabled people or those suffering from chronic disease, including veterans. Canadian government was arresting people's bank accounts for taking part or financially supporting truckers' Freedom Convoy last year. They were revoking business licences and forcing to cancel their insurance policies of people whose livelihood depended on their business. Justin Trudeau, Canadian PM, got so offended by the legal protests in the capital of Canada - he invoked war measures (emergency) act! Inflation in Canada, especially when it comes to real estate is through the roof. Since we bought our house back in 2001 housing prices went up 5 - 6 times. Young family simply can't afford to buy a home in Toronto area anymore. I'm not sure what expats and why have put Canada so high up in rating. Australia, nicknamed after pandemic Ausjailia, is also a tyrannical state they way they handled pandemic and related dissent, but that's another story...

Well, I’m kind of glad Ecuador isn’t too visible on the radar.

Cool channel. I just subscribed. I think i totally agree with your list. I'm from Belgium and lived in Holland for 3 years and 11 years in Spain. I also toured the US and many other countries like Austria ,Morroco and more. I wondered how you guys see our central European countries like France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Scandinavia. To top it off; i think Portugal would be an awesome destination. 😉

We have been researching Panama, and will be spending February exploring the country.

Great video!

Canada is expensive too. I do love its natural beauty, but the winters are too much for me.

Australia? Singapore? Canada? unless you are a high net worth individual (I say at last > 10 mil) forget it.

While my adopted home isn't on your list, it is a perfect fit for me. Also, Spain is less than an hour away which is great for day and weekend jaunts.

The reason the US doesn’t have a decent passenger rail service is because big oil squashed the trains in the 50s.They wanted people to use the interstates and basically threw all the money towards that goal and they succeeded. This may sound like a conspiracy theory but it’s true.

Amelia I love your top! Loving it here in Santa Marianita. Back in the US they close things down. I can’t wait to get back to Ecuador!

The various rating systems have set weights for the criteria they evaluate that that don't really reflect my priorities. Has anyone developed a tool to allow users to rate their preferences and thus adjust the rankings?

The Canadian rankings are humorous to a Canadian. Great health care, try universal healthcare, as in, universally crappy health care. One of the main reasons for us to look overseas is for better healthcare. It's illegal in our province to pay for blood tests that you want if your doctor says the government doesn't pay for "that test". In our province, nearly 10% of the population are on a waiting list for "family doctor". UNIVERSALLY crap health care, which we actually pay very high taxes to provide (if you can get it), so it isn't even "free", it's just sold to the world that way. End of Rant. Love you two, please keep up the amazing work, hope to meet you some time when we get to travelling. Cheers.

I was not only surprised that Ecuador did not make the list, but I was also surprised that Panama didn't make the list. What's up with that?

Australia was very authoritarian during COVID. Saw some videos. The police state was frightening!

Moved to Ireland and think it deserves a place on your list. Ranks high in all the rankings you feature.Enlish speaking with a great culture.

Not surprised to see the United States rank so low, especially in safety/peace. I laugh when I hear about U.S. State Department travel and safety advisories for other countries, or when folks from back home in the States talk about how dangerous other countries are. The U.S. has done a wonderful job at pulling the wool over the eyes of its citizens with regards to where it stands when compared with the rest of the world. After living away from the United States for over a decade now, and having spent a lot of time in Europe, Asia, and South America, I don't even view the United States as a highly developed country any more.

When I was growing up in England we were saturated with American TV especially cop shows ,, ,I thought that the minute you stepped of the plane the shooting started , I was fascinated and terrified by America both at the same time ..

There are lots of factors that give you stress in the US and Canada, therefore the quality of life is not that great, laid back countries may be a lot happier, thus improving their quality of life, plus the quality of food is important too!

You can also see Komodo Dragons in Bangkok Thailand, they are running all over the place in Lumpini Park right next to the US Embassy. Nice change of pace guys.

Hello Amelia and JP.

Very informative

Me and our friends who were afflicted worked out Atahualpa's Wallop. We were going to sell TShirts "Atahualpa walloped me in San José Ecuador 2021"

That Train Maya they are building in the Yucatán JP that’s gonna be a big big tourist attraction

I've been living in Australia since 2011, the goods: peaceful, quiet, excellent quality+life balance, the inconvenient: very expensive, repeat: very expensive, very far from almost anywhere (from México where I'm from), more goods: healthcare is good, people are friendly in general. At this stage, it's hard to think I'd move anyplace else.

Hmm … I have a weekend home in Tecate Baja …. An hour and 15 minutes from downtown San Diego

As a Canadian I'm wondering why Canada got such a high ranking on health care. It is falling a part - not enough doctors, up to a year to wait for life saving surgery, up to 18 hours in emergency wards. I myself went to Mexico and paid for surgery that I would have had to wait over a year for in Canada.

Indonesia its really a shock ..we never think our country on your list...we not as popular as others in the eye of expats. But thank you and made us proud.

My main problem with tiny homes is that they too often are designed with bedrooms in a loft only accessible by a ladder. For older people that just isn’t safe and for everyone not convenient. Who wants to deal with that when you have to get up in the middle of the night?

The best country is simply the one you're happy in. It's different for everyone. Very few things in life are actually objective.

Indonesia developed faster for the last 10 years interm of public transportation compare to all countries on the list & in the world, in 2019 Indonesia just finished the longest BRT system in the world that cost only ¢15/ride, in 2019 finished the 1st phase of MRT project, now started the 2nd phase, end of 2022 LRT project will be completed running for central Jakarta to Bogor city. End of 2022 the first Fast train in South East Asia will be completed running from Jakarta to Bandung city in west Java, normally it takes 3 hours now with the new Fast train it's only take 30 minutes. 2nd phase will be running from Jakarta to Surabaya city in East Java. In 2021 Trans Java island Toll road finished, Trans Sumatera island Toll Road 80% completion, 100's of new international airport/seaport spread along the archipelago. The fastest development a country can achieved in 10 years.

2:27 Me living in Aus seeing Aus: "AHHHHHH!!! NOOOOOO!! 10000% absoluetly not!!!" 😅

I was gonna say…Komodo dragons are dangerous… 😳

I can't believe New Zealand is not on your list. It scores better all round than any of the other countries.

I’m moving to the Philippines in 2023. So many positives. English is widely spoken, beautiful women, beautiful islands, great scuba diving, super low cost of living, and just a great central location for travel to other countries.

I have distant relatives in Ireland, I thought a lot about going there for a short time

The thing about USA is so diverse. Not fair, but not all healthcare is the same. I have superb doctors and healthcare in New York but not the same in Georgia. These figures are averages and need to be taken with a grain of salt. For me, being around family is more important than crime statistics or healthcare and I am comfortable financially so, I love New York!

Gonna go check out Portugal now 😍😎😆 (unfortunately I’m too scared to move to TW - tho I have a lot of friends there.)

If I wanted to move to Thailand there are 3 things I would seriously consider in order to live, stay and be self sufficient. FIrst, consider marrying a Thai as any property you buy has to be 51 percent Thai owned unless you buy an apartment or condo. Next, have enough cash to buy an apartment and start a business and a Thai partner would be a great asset in your business as understanding business, the language and what not to do is almost mandatory. Don't leave yourself without an exit plan and that includes assets and money that can't be accessed, taken, seized or used by anyone. Trust is great but that doesn't mean you have to be foolish as people will do the unexpected and often its too late by the time you realize it. Good luck.

Any country that is safe, warm and affordable is good for me

You have to be careful about these stats. How are the questions asked, how are they worded? I grantee you there are a LOT of Australians & Canadians not happy with their country right now. The lower cost of living definitely makes a big impact, but what makes a bigger impact is the Culture of some of these countries, they are more focused on traditional values aka what's important, family, love, life, etc. Every single Western country, for the most part, have gotten away from that Culture.

Had a good laugh. 😀Spain - a Spanish-speaking country. 🤣

I am surprised no mentions Albania 1 yr free visa for Americans and residency is easy and the cost of living is about the same as manila and the cuisine is Italian and Greek Mediterranean style

The problem with the Global Peace Index is that it combines internal and external peace/safety. While both are important, I would rather see separate numbers. The US will always be low-ranked because we seriously meddle everywhere.

Canada has a #12 global peace, #22 Quality of life, #4 Healthcare....why would I ever want to leave?? Oh yeah...winters

Thailand is more than Bangkok, which has become more expensive in recent years (esp accommodation). Chiang Mai is the place to live. Cheaper, healthier, lush countryside, cooler weather, etc.

Indonesia isn’t all that conservative. No comparison with UAE. Both are Muslim majority countries. They are worlds apart in their attitudes. Taiwan is a treat to visit. I imagine that living there is even better. Singapore is epic!

Once again, as I've already explained on your other video, it all depends on your personal circumstances.

Two of my friends from US came to Panama 3. Onths ago , and they could not stopped saying how calm and safe they felt. So based on that. I can believe the US Stats

We have friends who lived in Taiwan for 8 years and loved it. We visited with them for 3 weeks and agreed it was a good country to live in. They are back in the USA due to aging parents and to be close to grandkids, but they have kept their Taiwan residency cards.

Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto all made the top ten list amongst most "liveable cities" as researched by the "Economic Intelligence Unit". However; housing is becoming a problem for lower income Canadians. The immigration policy is outpacing the rate at which new housing is being developed. Homelessness is real in Canada and the socialized medicine has long waiting lists for procedures such as hip and knee replacement. Relatively, we are doing better than most but questions are emerging particularly in primary and secondary education.

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