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I enjoyed your views. I just wanted to add that most articles on places to live during retirement are written by Caucasians and people of other races have to be a little bit careful. For example, many Caucasians tend to go to East Asia. I remember reading a couple of years ago that expats were very happy in China. Japan is also high on that list albeit the cost of living is high there. Thailand was mentioned by you. All are nice places to live for Caucasians where locals will be nice to them. A single guy will have no problem meeting up lots of women there. However, as an Indian, and based on my past continual bad encounters with East Asians, I will have to pass up on these places. It is not that I lack in certain desirable attributes. I studies at IIT (Indian 'MIT' :)), have high IQ, got graduate degrees... During my younger age a large company in Japan took me to Japan against my wishes to conduct experiment on me to help out its Caucasian employees and effectively destroyed my ...