Retirement Deliberations
 

Hi All, just joined and will be looking for advice on retirement destinations with separate posts. I am originally from Zimbabwe, lived in the UK for 20 years before coming to China on expat assignment for last 4 years. look forward to chatting.

Re: Retirement Deliberations
 

Hi Bazza, welcome to BE! :)

Do you have any thoughts as to where you want to retire to - I am assuming you aren't going to retire in China.

BTW please take a moment to review the site rules linked in the menu bar above.

Re: Retirement Deliberations
 

Thanks for the welcome. My wife and I are thinking of:
England (Derbyshire) - where we lived for 20 years and where our grown up daughters are still based.
Zimbabwe - always be home for me, despite whats happened to it.
New Zealand - where my wife's family have emmigrated to.
Malaysia - selfishly enjoy the Asian lifestyle that we have grown accustomed to and take advantage of MM2H programme.

BTW - I want to follow the rules of this site. Am I supposed to send out a separate post that is more specific? Appreciate your guidance :)

Re: Retirement Deliberations
 

No, not really. There are specific country forums for each of those (for the UK there is "Moving Back to the UK"), except Zimbabwe, and I don't think we have any regular members in Zimbabwe. However there is an Africa forum, but it doesn't see much traffic.

What I would say is that if you start posting in all of the forums simultaneously, especially as a new member, you may irritate some people, so I would recommend focusing, or at least starting, where your greatest interest is. And I might be wrong, but I don't think there is a retirement visa or a "non-dependent family members" visa for New Zealand. Maybe you could start in the NZ forum to investigate if it is even a possibility. :unsure:

Re: Retirement Deliberations
 

Okey Dokey. Folks around the place should be able to help and guide with this a little which in turn might help you both. Here are a couple of links to help get you started.

Far East and Asia

New Zealand

Africa

UK


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