[AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior

[michelemason]

That would be lovely, since I have so many things to look-up. I may 
have found it on "citizen ,,,,info. Sorry—not so organized as I should 
be, but it was a government address.  Thank-you ever so much.  How are 
you?  Michele

On Sep 29, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:

> 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
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>> When I researched Ireland health care, I found one could buy private 
>> care for $20.00 mo. mm
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>> On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:
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>>> 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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