Retiring to Malta

[odanny]

There are a couple interesting takeaways: The rent on their place is $750 a month with an ocean view, and as a requirement you have to pay for private medical insurance, which costs them less than Medicare. Unbelievable. Same couple has a rental home in California, which they needed to "qualify" for a Visa. Considering they are both living on Social Security, it probably was not enough income for them to have a Visa.

 

[Rambunctious]

That's a big step to make...

 

[odanny]

That's a big step to make...

Yea, but the location is one of the best in the world, as far as climate. A Mediterranean climate is probably the best anywhere.

Clean and safe and affordable, but also looks pretty boring.

 

[Rambunctious]

Yea, but the location is one of the best in the world, as far as climate. A Mediterranean climate is probably the best anywhere.

Clean and safe and affordable, but also looks pretty boring.

I would do it but I'm single... I would miss my kids and grandkids though... I have a pension and soon will have social security and I have rental property... I could live like a king there...
hmmmmmmm

 

[odanny]

I would do it but I'm single... I would miss my kids and grandkids though... I have a pension and soon will have social security and I have rental property... I could live like a king there...
hmmmmmmm

With your situation you could probably live like a king in much of the world. It's not prohibitively expensive to pay for private healthcare somewhere else in the world, this is a completely foreign concept to an American.

 

[Rambunctious]

So is Malta part of Italy?...

 

[odanny]

So is Malta part of Italy?...

Nope, independent country.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Nope, independent country.

Used to belong to us. (UK) They still have the red post boxes there.