Comments by "Marvin Fine" (@torontovoice1) on "How to Leave Your Country for $1,000 or Less" video.

  1. Well, kind of a rambling video. Some of it quite logical, others not so much. So I'm Canadian and I know what it's like to live in Canada. If you're making $30,000 a year, there's lots of places in Canada that you can live very inexpensively. On $30,000 of income you'll pay practically no tax. You also get free unlimited healthcare as well as a plethora of other social programs. Moving to Mexico is completely nonsensical. They will tax you on your worldwide income, and God forbid if you get sick. The healthcare will cost you more than $30,000 depending on your age. Canada has the 4th and 5th best hospitals in the world. Mexico not so much. Now you're talking about Ecuador, this is a country that is defaulted on their external debt to this day look at their 2030 Bond. I think it only makes sense to do these things if you have substantial income. But you certainly don't want to go to Mexico because they have worldwide taxation. You might consider Costa Rica or Panama for example. But these are pretty dangerous places. You can get yourself in a whole lot of trouble as well. The police are corrupt. You know you get what you pay for. If you go to some of the tourist areas in Panama for example probably be okay, but how many coffees can you drink a day. What are you going to do there? It's okay if you're retired maybe in some of these places might be problematic. You know you take a lot of things for granted in Canada like the power is going to work, there's not going to be civil unrest, other than the trucker strike, the internet's going to work. Etc. Not so much in these other countries. You can't even drink the water. And if you look at where all millionaires are moving to, it's exactly the opposite of what you're describing. They're going from third world countries to first world countries. Your advocating people go from first world to third world countries
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  2.  Pat Risberg  that's very hard to believe in a retiree pays 225 a year in healthcare. When I go to Canada to visit, I pay $3 a day for emergency travel insurance. And that doesn't cover anything other than emergencies and that's for the $1,000 deductible. You must have found some miracle. Have you ever made a claim?
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  3.  Pat Risberg  I'm sorry to hear about all your medical problems, but I failed to understand how you we're able to resolve all those problems with 225. You can get three operations in Mexico for $225 is that what you're saying? Or did you travel back to Europe and use ehic?
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  4.  Pat Risberg  very happy to hear that. Hypotension will make you feel a little faint, but it's not specifically dangerous. Whereas hypertension especially systolic creates a lot of pressure on your heart and your kidneys. After you worked so hard your whole life and want to retire, the last thing you want is severe medical problems disrupting the best years of your life. The weather in Mexico is good, no doubt about it. Take care of yourself, best regards
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  5.  Pat Risberg  you know healthcare is very expensive. When you speak about Canada which has socialized healthcare as the Germany for that matter, having Canada spends 7% of GDP or in that vicinity on healthcare. It's not the best as far as access is concerned. However if you have a serious problem like myocarditis and you present to emergency you will get world-class healthcare. Canada has the fourth and fifth best hospital in the world according to Newsweek top 100 hospitals. You'll also find on the list Germany, Switzerland, Israel and several others all in the top 10. The first two being the Cleveland clinic and the Mayo clinic I'm not sure which one is better but they're probably equally good anyway. I wish you all the best and I hope your health condition improves. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that you should do everything you can to take care of your heart including eating correctly, exercising, maintaining proper weight, checking your blood pressure and make sure it's less than 120 over 80, controlling your stress, and just being happy!
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  6.  Pat Risberg  I'm glad to hear that you've got everything under control
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  7.  @oneofthesedays582  I guess there's propaganda everywhere, but I read around 20 different newspapers a day, and all of them but a slightly different spin on the news. So when you read a number of papers particularly with the same stories, somewhere in the middle lies the truth. It's not that the newspapers or other media sources are lying, rather the express their bias, and create a lot of omissions in the story. It's those emissions that give a misleading impression of what the real story is. Unfortunately, most people are unable to discern fact from fiction, and you have some medias especially the fake news media which you know who I'm talking about, tend to put a spin on stories, and often omit to give coverage the stories that do not fit their leftist agenda. You have to be a smart consumer to understand what's going on. So I wouldn't go so far it's to call Western media propaganda because it's not controlled by the state. But the narratives can be perplexing to some people, especially when they believe it hook line and sinker and don't seek alternative sources
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