A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
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Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by Jacaranda
Yes . . . I don't know that I would quite like to live with scary things like that again, even though wild things are, in the main, more scared of us humans than we of them!
Saw a TV prog once of this place in USA, in a very hot place (perhaps Arizona) where you're never many inches at all away from scorpions! They used some kind of infra-red or ultra-V photography to show them up - aieee!! I wouldn't want to share my shower, shoes, or anything with them - and these ones proved quite lethal, sometimes, for kiddies . . .they were everywhere!
Saw a TV prog once of this place in USA, in a very hot place (perhaps Arizona) where you're never many inches at all away from scorpions! They used some kind of infra-red or ultra-V photography to show them up - aieee!! I wouldn't want to share my shower, shoes, or anything with them - and these ones proved quite lethal, sometimes, for kiddies . . .they were everywhere!
Never again, thank you..
#32
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by izibear
Ah, the days of waking up and tapping our school shoes in case a scorpion had made its way in there during the night...and waking up one Saturday morning bright and early with a large snake on my bed.....
Never again, thank you..
Never again, thank you..
#33
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Become a snowbird ..spend the 6 months of the winter in Florida .
and the other 6 months in the UK ... thousands do ....
and the other 6 months in the UK ... thousands do ....
#34
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by Ray
Become a snowbird ..spend the 6 months of the winter in Florida .
and the other 6 months in the UK ... thousands do ....
and the other 6 months in the UK ... thousands do ....
#35
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
That not what happens here in my experience ..All the snowbird I know ..and there are many ..all seem to have full social calendars...
#36
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Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by Jacaranda
Does anyone have any bright ideas on the above? I'm near retirement age - and have painful arthritis while in the UK (during the UK winter), so am researching somewhere to perhaps retire to. I'm a British passport holder, but grew up in Kenya (where I was schooled), Tanzania (where I first started to work), moved to South Africa and returned to UK some time ago. I've also had nearly two years in the Middle East, in Doha.
Any ideas would be welcome!
Val/Jacaranda
Any ideas would be welcome!
Val/Jacaranda
#37
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by Jacaranda
Oh no, no way! Although I hate the cold climate, they do say that, apart from imported licenced "pet" species, the only indigenous snake here in UK that is poisonous is the adder!
#38
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by debsy
Jacaranda
Have you ever thought about Antalya, Turkey. The ancient roman town of Side is particularly nice and a lot of europeans have decided to settle there.
Have you ever thought about Antalya, Turkey. The ancient roman town of Side is particularly nice and a lot of europeans have decided to settle there.
#39
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by Gray C
The Canaries have a good all year round climate
#40
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by Ray
Try day 10 after a recluse spider bite ...
#41
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by Jacaranda
Oh my goodness - have been off the boards for a bit, so not following the thread! Ray, that looks awful - I hope it's better now? What *is* a recluse spider, and where do they come from?
the snakes are not so bad though ....
#42
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by Ray
Its not me .. just a bite from quite a rare spider in the US ....
the snakes are not so bad though ....
the snakes are not so bad though ....
So, I console myself, when I miss the sun (it not being time to retire, just yet), that I've only got an ants' nest under my front step, fieldmice living under a step in the back garden, and can only grow certain plants in my garden because otherwise I offer a wonderful menu to the high amount of slugs in the area - and I will not use slug pellets to kill them!
Last edited by Jacaranda; Aug 6th 2005 at 8:53 am.
#43
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Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by Jacaranda
Does anyone have any bright ideas on the above? I'm near retirement age - and have painful arthritis while in the UK (during the UK winter), so am researching somewhere to perhaps retire to. I'm a British passport holder, but grew up in Kenya (where I was schooled), Tanzania (where I first started to work), moved to South Africa and returned to UK some time ago. I've also had nearly two years in the Middle East, in Doha.
Any ideas would be welcome!
Val/Jacaranda
Any ideas would be welcome!
Val/Jacaranda
#44
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by Billie
What about Belize? It's english speaking in Central America?
#45
Re: A Warm All-Year-Round Place to Retire
Originally Posted by meauxna
Wouldn't the humidity, rough terrain and lack of medical services make it unappealing for someone with "painful arthritis"?