[AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior

[Wayne Johnson]

That IS interesting.

Do you recall what it provided?  Or better yet, what the URL listing was?  I 
can look up these things meself ya know.

wgJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michelemason" <coltrane at ev1.net>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Cc: "michelemason" <coltrane at ev1.net>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior


> When I researched Ireland health care, I found one could buy private care 
> for $20.00 mo. mm
>
> On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:
>
>> It is my understanding that to get the so-called "free" drugs, one pretty 
>> much has to be a "citizen".  Otherwise...not qualified.  If one has 
>> money, then one can always get "private" care, just like here, in all the 
>> Brit Commonwealth countries I believe.  If one is dependant on the public 
>> health plan (whatever it is called) one had better have a healthy heart 
>> and/or a high tolerance for pain and suffering.  18 months is a long time 
>> to wait for an emergency appendectomy. Ahhh, I know, ranting again.
>>
>> What good are "free" drugs if the local "doctor" is consulting chicken 
>> spleens or reading charts which tell them which banana is active in which 
>> cabbage patch for that date.  Or similar.
>>
>> We lost two friends to undiagnosed or unrecognized cancer who moved to 
>> and lived in beautiful San Miguel, so my opinion of Mexican medical 
>> diagnostic skills are rather on a par with my opinion of Barbara Bush's 
>> sensitivity to social problems.
>>
>> France and Germany have good doctors and great facilities as do most 
>> Scandanavian countries.  Some of the worlds' best "eye doctors" work in 
>> Portugal for reasons entirely beyond my ken.
>>
>> wgJ
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "michelemason" <coltrane at ev1.net>
>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
>> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>> Cc: "michelemason" <coltrane at ev1.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior
>>
>>
>>> Remember dear, it has to be where meds are free, or nearly.  mm
>>>
>>> On Sep 28, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:
>>>
>>>> big prize for best recommendation of where to move to never
>>>> having been there onself.
>>>>
>>>> I met a Kiwi once who swore he would never go back to NZ.
>>>>
>>>> I recommend Nova Scotia & San Diego
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: <blacky at cbn.net.id>
>>>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
>>>> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:59 PM
>>>> Subject: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Had to put my two cents' worth in.
>>>>>
>>>>>> From everything I've heard New Zealand is incomparable for the type 
>>>>>> of
>>>>> civilized, comfortable, environmentally-stable refuge you are talking
>>>>> about.
>>>>>
>>>>> Two grand islands with a total population of around three million, a
>>>>> reasonably healthy if sluggish economy, and a welcoming people.
>>>>>
>>>>> Square as Jehovah's Witlesses from what I am told but I have enjoyed 
>>>>> my
>>>>> contacts with Kiwis (Ozzies not so much).
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course I've never been there (snicker). That would have spoilt my 
>>>>> power
>>>>> of recommendation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Seriously though... Just don't go expecting to try to do business or 
>>>>> make
>>>>> money (the bane of energetic ambitious Canadian immigrants as well...)
>>>>>
>>>>> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
>>>>>
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