Retired Mid-Fifties & Living Lakeside in Chile on $3,000/month

Um Chile is in South America last i checked... Americans and geography never fails to amaze

No free stuff there, you have to work or have savings.

There is nothing wrong with my geography. There is, however, something wrong with your reading comprehension. I NEVER SAID that Chile was in Central America. I said that if Chile was such a great place, the Central American refugees/immigrants would head towards Chile rather than the US.

Are you allowed/permitted to defend yourself there?

GA Girl...perhaps they have been hitting the ganga pretty hard to miss what you said. You were crystal clear to me.

Nope, a big NO is the answer to that, guns are heavily restricted, you can have guns but only at home, carrying them is ilegal (unless you are a law enforcer), and using them in self defense will probably end you in prison. There’s and idiotic legal criteria that if you kill someone, even a burglar inside your home, the only way you get free is if you killed the guy after being shot at by him, but if the guy is barefist or with only a knife or blunt object to threat you, if you kill him, you will be convicted for “disproportionate use of force” in self defense. Chilean laws suck in many ways but specially when protecting victims rights.

Oh cmon now.. you are gonna destroy the dream. The US sucks balls dontcha know and everything is bad.

I do the same, with less.. in Florida.

And I get to keep my guns as well.

Good for them.. but its not like they have reached some utopian shangri la.

Prob the TDS that drove them out.. and I am OK with that. They can stay there.

Oh snap!

Someone up there has a very valid point!

So you are saying the good ole USA will be CHEAPER FOR THEM TO LIVE?

How is that.. exactly?

We have a winner!

3k per month wow u must be rich !!!! I pay 520 around detroit and my total bills are around 800 for gas, food and insurance. Your problem is, you are a GRINGO and the locals know how much to rip you off; I lived in latin america, I know. I was paying 200 for an apartment while an Italian was paying 15$ US.

3k per month is pretty fucking expensive, there's mountains in New Hampshire and you could probably get by on half of that.

I grew up in Detroit
it can be a pretty tough town

BUT DOES NOT COMPARE TO BEING "GRINGO" In Chile

wrong night wrong street town

or even day

people "dissapear" real easy

good luck buddy

life aint worth much down there

easy to get killed

GOD FORBID

if you go BE VERY CAREFUL !

This is fine if your kids are grown, but I think it's shitty and selfish to make kids live like this.

3k a month is a little pricey to live in a banana republic

No Freebies in Chile. USA Gringo works for me!

I've lived in Chile and Uruguay.

For those talking about the public healthcare being bad, no worries. You can pay $50 per month and get a top class private healthcare plan as an expat.

Also, not sure why people in North America have some skewed idea of Chile as a lower class country. It leads Latin America in nearly every economic category and it's homicide rate is just behind Canada for best in the Americas.

Lots of beautiful nature, friendly people and a much better lifestyle than living in some overpopulated cities.

So you came here to brag?

What a prick.

I don't doubt that parts of Chile would be a great place to live ... but at $3000/mo?

If one wants economical retirement there are a number of places in the ol US of A where one can EASILY match that cost as long as you are out of the city (as they are in Chile).

Also ... don't forget the airfare costs to go back and forth when relatives get sick and die in the US and other trips back and forth that are virtually required. Sure, you may be able to NOT go back and forth for a year or two and then WHAM, you have to make 3 trips in the space of a year FOR EVERYBODY.

Now if the cost in Chile was $1500/mo, well that would be a different animal, but it's not.

I image for $3000/mo you could also do lots of beautiful places in Portugal or in Greece too fwiw, and be in a SAFE place with 1st world health care.

I think parts of spain and portugal you can live ok on 3K a month.