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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: louel who wrote (141052)	4/29/2018 5:57:29 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219609

I'd rank Australia, New Zealand and northern Europe as being as safe as the US and Canada. The UK, Spain, Italy and Greece are a step lower in security - and new associate EU states it varies over time. Perhaps UK citizens would object, but you're way safer in anyplace in Germany than in England. Stupid little places like Fiji and Nicaragua can turn dangerous overnight with a coup. Security in Mexico changes dramatically over time and varies hugely from one location to another. I tell people to be safe in odd places you have to be aware, skeptical and have 'alternatives' lined up 'just in case' and if that's too much trouble, don't go. I've been to a lot of odd places like the Eastern Bloc before the Soviet Union collapsed and Yugoslavia just before the fighting started and it collapsed into smaller countries. Like any large city there's places I'd be in Mexico City during the day but not as evening falls - it's just in places like Mexico City there's more parts of the city where you don't want to be. When I watch "International House Hunters" I see people spending their life savings on property in countries I never would. I know a Canadian and his wife from Medicine Hat who spend their Winters in the culturally isolated country of Paraguay, renting. It's challenging because, although they speak Spanish, very few people really speak Spanish in Paraguay, it a blend of Guarani, Spanish and their own variation over time. They're slowly learning more of it each Winter.