Who? Why? How?

We’re here to look at who decides to live overseas, why they do, and how they accomplish it. There are probably as many reasons to live outside of your native country as there are people who do so. In my case, my husband and I realized several years ago that, if we stay here, we will never be able to afford to retire. Add to this my lifelong desire to spend significant time in another country, and we began looking at the possibilities of retiring overseas. But that’s not the only reason, not by a long shot! More

Results of Health Care Coverage Poll

Recently I asked the question:

Health Care Abroad: are we writing

Just the right amount

Too much
Not enough

The results are in — and I wish more of you had responded.

A whopping eighty-three percent of respondents clicked “just the right amount.” Thanks, guys!

Seventeen percent said there’s not enough health care coverage.

And nobody indicated there was too much.

So

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What Would You Like to Read About?

Periodically, I’m going to insert a brief poll to get some feedback from you, readers, about whether you’re finding what you want and need here.

Today, since we’ve just been discussing health care, I’m asking for some input on how well we’re doing in that department. I’d really appreciate it if you’d take a

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Post-It When?

Generally I post new material here three times each week. Since January, I’ve uploaded the new posts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the evening (Eastern Standard Time for me).

I thought I’d ask all of you if that posting schedule is convenient for you, or if something else would make it easier for

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Where's Your Fave Social Media Hangout?

I’m trying to find out more about you, Future Expat readers. What social media are you most active with? Where do you like to hang out? We’ll let this run for a couple of weeks, then publish the results.

Which social media do you use most often?(opinion)

You can find me mostly on Twitter, Facebook

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Americans Totally Want a Public Health Care Option

According to information released today by Sen. Dick Durbin, Americans overwhelmingly want a strong public option to be part of health care reform here in the US. Eighty percent of poll respondents fully support a 50-state public option, and 65% of respondents were completely opposed to the so-called “trigger” option.

In the meantime, until

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Health Care Poll Results

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a poll asking the question “how important is health care in your decision to move abroad?”

Fully 75% of all respondents indicated health care was very important in their decision.

Nobody selected not a consideration as a response. The other choices were evenly split, with 8% going

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Our First Poll Results

We recently ran a four-part poll to find out a little about readers’ plans for moving overseas. We asked four simple

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Do We Know You Yet?

Here’s the last installment of our Getting To Know You poll series. If you haven’t seen the previous questions, you can view them here, here and here.

Once results are in, we’ll be compiling them and posting the results. All your responses are anonymous, and we appreciate your participationg.

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Getting to Know You III

OK, we’re halfway through our survey. If you missed parts I and II, you can find them here and here.

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Is there something you’d like to know about your fellow Future Expats? Click on the Comment link below to let us know what you’d like to see us ask in the future!

Getting to Know You II

If you responded to yesterday’s poll question, thanks. If you haven’t and would like to, go to http://futureexpats.com/archives/688 to register your response.

Once our poll is completed, we’ll share the results with you. As always, your responses are completely anonymous.

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