IRELAND - Best place for Americans to retire

dfbemt

From TopRetirements.com

http://www.topretirements.com/blog/international-retirement/10-best-international-places-to-retire.html/

Our mixed up country is viewed as the best place in the world for Americans to retire abroad.

A good news story and a new angle for The Gathering, The Sequel - 2014!!!

Extract below.

1. Ireland. We love Ireland, the land of many of our ancestors. We speak the language, more or less (excepting Gaelic), and the people and their names seem so familiar. In fact, the names on gravestones made us feel like we were in our old parish graveyard. Killarney on the Ring of Kerry is a small city with many amenities including restaurants, a very walkable downtown, and some world class golf courses. It would make for a great place to retire where there would be plenty to do.
There are countless small villages both on the coast and in the countryside that would also make great places to retire. Towns in the west like Lahinch, Doolin, Waterville, Tralee, Dingle, and Ballybunion are charming with many pubs and restaurants, small shops, and quiet neighborhoods. The towns we mention will be quite familiar to golfers; some of the world’s great public golf courses are located in these towns. (Photo: Cliffs of Moher on Ireland’s west coast). Galway is another town that people mention for retirement.
Ireland, the so called “Celtic Tiger”, was tamed a bit with the spectacular economic collapse that started in 2007. The silver lining of the collapse is that real estate prices are much more realistic than they were during the run-up

vicwatson

dfbemt wrote: »

From TopRetirements.com

http://www.topretirements.com/blog/international-retirement/10-best-international-places-to-retire.html/

Our mixed up country is viewed as the bext place in the world for Americans to retire abroad.

A good news story and a new angle for The Gathering, The Sequel - 2014!!!

Extract below.

Barmy and Bonkers are the words that come to mind !

Mr.Wemmick

I am wondering how that will actually work for the retired folks who move here.. Would their existing US/overseas health insurance cover a move to Ireland or would they have to fork out money for Doctors visits, hospitals etc. I know that any existing health condition will not be covered for 5 years by health insurance companies in Ireland.. so where does that leave a retired person looking to relocate? Or do they get free health care here paid for by the tax payer in case their funds run out? And if they do get sick and can't drive, having moved to remote Dingle or West Clare for the lovely quiet life, the cut back in ambulance services are going to be a bit of a bother, no? And then there's the troubled HSE: no funding, service/staff cut-backs, hospital and department closures and..

I would no more consider a move to Ireland as a retired person, than a move to the moon

carpejugulum

...if you don't like nice weather.

RichardAnd

carpejugulum wrote: »

...if you don't like nice weather.

Just as an aside, Ireland has one of the most enviable climates in the world. Extremes of cold and of heat are extremely rare, tornadoes are unheard of, as are tsunamis and seismically, the country is extremely stable.

For some reason, the inhabitants of this island seem to have an addiction to putting themselves and their home down. Spend a winter in Siberia or a summer in new Delhi and you may well reconsider your opinion of nice weather . . .