# American Dopers, what would make you emigrate from the US? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dopers-what-would-make-you-emigrate-from-the-us/957349 "2022-01-07T00:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 38
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dopers-what-would-make-you-emigrate-from-the-us/957349/38 "2022-01-07T16:15:32Z")
My wife and I have talked about retiring to another country where our retirement savings will stretch further. I feel like this country is not too kind to older people on fixed incomes. And with Social Security and Medicare always under threat it could be even worse here by the time we do retire. I even started a thread on the matter almost a year ago: > [@Best countries to retire to...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-countries-to-retire-to/933667): > > So, retirement age is getting closer on the horizon-- about 10 years out, give or take. My wife and my retirement plans are doing so-so: we’ll have savings but probably not enough to last in the states if we live to an inconveniently old age, unless we really lower our standard of living. Also I worry about the ridiculous cost of health care as a retired old person in the U.S… My wife has talked about moving somewhere exotic after retirement-- she’s mentioned Thailand, mainly I think because sh… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-dopers-what-would-make-you-emigrate-from-the-us/957349)._