No Place To Run
One of my longtime readers, who lives in the sprawling, East Coast Megalopolis in the CONUS/U$$A, Inc., yesterday wrote to me about possibly moving to Ecuador. He has a modest SS cheque and also an employment pension that he receives on a monthly basis. He is elderly. I replied to him like this:
The entire East Coast Megalopolis/Eastern Seaboard of the CONUS/U$$A, Inc is at tremendous risk of tsunamis, nuclear missile strikes, catastrophic storms, societal upheaval, and more.
The hurricanes/tropical storms in southern Appalachia and Florida are the merest beginnings of the troubles.
In all honesty, I would not recommend Ecuador as a safe haven at this juncture. The violent crime issue here is enormous, as is the precarious state of the economy, the crumbling, failing infrastrucrure (electricity/water/bridges/highways and roads), governmental corruption, and so forth.
In Latin America I could suggest Panama and Uruguay. You will have to speak Spanish, my friend.
But understand that the situation in the entire world is rapidly changing.
What I mean is, suppose that you move to Panama, for example, and the dollar fails, or the cost of living outstrips the size of your pension. Will you be able to survive? Do you have the street smarts to survive in Latin America without the social/economic/employment safety net that you have relied on for your entire life in the CONUS/U$$A, Inc.?
See the issue? You will have no money. You will know very few people. You will not have Panamanian citizenship. Then what will you do ?? No money to buy food, no place to live, no job, etc.
You will be in the street with nothing. Then what will happen??
I am being brutally honest with you.
You see, dear readers, so many people have the completely airy-fairy idea that when things get really bad, they will jet off to Thailand or Madagascar or Panama and live happily ever after on their $800 per month SS-cheque.
And yet that is totally unrealistic in many respects. Suppose a hypothetical, elderly gringo expat is living in Madagascar when the dollar collapses, and is suddenly worth next to nothing. What if the stores and markets - - or banks - - will no longer accept dollar$ for anything, not even to exchange for the local currency?? (Plot spoiler: the U$$A, Inc. dollar is weakening every day, more and more.)
Additionally, a lot of gringo expats seem to expect that anywhere they go in the world, people will speak English; and in the event that they are not understood, all they need to do is repeat whatever they just said in English that was not understood, but with a more insistent tone and greater volume.
I’ve seen this on public display. That will only work to a limited extent, and only in touristy areas where English-speaking people tend to visit, so it’s a problem.
To live and get along in a non-English-speaking country, and that is most of the world, it really is necessary to learn as much of the local language as possible.
For those who are unable or unwilling to do that, and who additionally are elderly and with meager financial resources, it is probably better not to go roaming around the world seeking a new country in which to live.
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