Abroad or the UK ?
Watch this postHi, We got married (in a fever, hotter than a.." , sorry,,,retired to North Cyprus in 2008 and lived there for 7 years. A few months ago at the age of 68/69 we relocated to the Czech Republic (Where's that you ask lol?), which will be our home, probably to the end of our days....said that before ! Having no aged parents, and grown up children , we don't visit the UK more than one a year, if that. We live in a rented house in the country (far bigger than we could ever afford in the UK), enjoy a cost of living much lower, and a standard of living much, much higher. We are however in a minority of retirees here in Prague, most ex-pats are still working with young families, or on their firms 2 year contract and transients. If anyone is interested in what we did, why we moved, why we stay here, what we do with our life, and the benefits and problems of living abroad (in the CZ) then I am happy to enter into a dialogue with you, including any facts and figures for those retirees serious about looking abroad. best regards TonyE
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Being ex-pats abroad we have an exciting and "different" retirement to our UK colleagues who are still doing the same old, same old, but quite happily so. - so no disparagement intended towards them, or the people we left behind in Cyprus..
What is interesting is that our immediate neighbours (as were), being stimulated by our move are in the process of buying a property in France to relocate to next year. Both seasoned "travelers", they with a motorhome and us with a camper, we are planning to meet up in Switzerland next Summer to swap stories of our new home. I say home, because that is how we view it, we are not swallows who decamp back to the UK regularly, but true residents who have the paperwork and the scars to prove it!!
Living in the Sun is great for a holiday, but the Cyprus "holiday" lifestyle eventually got boring, and a relentless 40-45C+ Jun through Sept started to get a bit uncomfortable.
The idea for a move blossomed from a comment from Diana who said one day "Is this all life has to offer?", which surprised me as I thought life was great..bars, booze, big swimming pool, nice villa, 4x4 truck on the drive etc. So I suggested a winter city-break to see the Christmas markets in Prague in 2013 and that was the trigger we needed to climb out of the rut of a nice retirement in the sun !
It took us 39 weeks to evaluate, plan and make it happen after our second 2 week visit to the Czech Republic (we flew in to Munich and hired a motorhome) to observe CZ and Austria from the viewpoint of a potential resident rather than a holidaymaker..
Now, four months in country, about the only procedural thing we have left to do is to sign up with a local GP, which is possible as our reciprocal NHS S1 paperwork has arrived.
TonyE
Retired-in-Prague
you can find out a lot on the internet but word off mouth cannot be beaten , it might make a interesting ( blog ) your lifestyle at the moment ? and i would be interested in that ,
i wish you and your wife all the best and thank you for the post