Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Retiring Abroad: Top Retirement Havens

First of all, I'll summary my newspaper:
I want to sorry you guys first because I can't find the link of my newspaper. My newspaper's article is Retiring Abroad: Top Retirement Havens. This article give the readers some advices how to find a good place for them after they retire. A couple Donna & Ron Carlson are going to retire by the end of this year, so they started looking for a perfect place to live because they realized that after they retire, they aren't going to have the income to maintain the lifestyle they're accustomed to. After many time reference, they decided to choose Cuenca, Ecuador which has great weather and a low cost of living as their new home. Nowadays, Cuenca is the famous name of the top retirement destination on International Living's Annual Global Retirement Index. Ron Carlson explained that Ecuador offer a low cost of living, top-notch healthcare, and some appealing benefits for retirees, including half- price airfares and big discounts on a variety of other expenses like taxes, utilities, and entertainment. Indeed, if health care is a concern, you won't need to worry if you retire to Cuenca, the cost when you visit doctor just $25 and the medication $8. So cheap! That the reason why he chose Ecuador instead of America that they're living now.

Personal Response:
In my opinion, I think nowadays people take care more about their health, especially older people. Therefore, in this article the writer wants to introduce us some place that have a good quality to live when we retire. Ecuador is the best place, but not perfect even though it's rank at the top of Top Ten Best Place to Retire. Just keep that in mind if you want to pick a good place for your grandparents, maybe ^-^. Don't think that living abroad when you're retire is wasting your money, so if you find a good place like Ecuador, your money will become gold because you know healthy likes gold that you never exchange it with anybody.
Vocabulary:
- cosmopolitan ( adj): a cosmopolitan place has people from many different parts of the world.
Ex: a cosmopolitan city.
- infrastructure ( n): the basic systems that a country or organization needs in order to work in the right way, for example road, and banking system.
Ex: Japan's economic infrastructure.
- eliminate( v): to get rid of something completely
Ex: A plan to eliminate all nuclear weapons.

3 comments:

  1. This article looks like the movie we watched in the sociology class. people didn't have money to see the doctor and the bad circle again and again.

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  2. I hope my grandparents can live a place like that,it's really a nice place to go.And it's good for their health.They can experience another kind of lifestyle.As everyone can only have one life,so they have to enjoy their life!

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  3. That a good place for retirement. I think when they're old they need a place that is good for their health and do not living abroad. I think that will be hard for them. They need free to do anything.

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