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[MamaOaxaca]

Well said Justin!

I thought I'd have one child. I like the idea of one child per couple. My husband likes the idea of three children per couple. Nature found us a conveniente compromise!

I don't think TEFL in general is full of people who are against families, I just think this website is more attractive to/used by the fluttering non settler types.

[SueH]

[John Hall]

[John Hall]

[dajiang]

i havent read the entire thread, so ill just answer the question since it is an interesting one for me as Ive just been looking into that same thing.

in my country (Holland) everyone's got a pension fund that is more or less automatically maintained by your employer. however, when your not working in Holland itself, there wont be any employer to put money into the fund, so then you can opt to do that yourself.

Basically im going to be paying about 500 euros a year to maintain my pension fund and stay entitled to a full Dutch pension when im 65. (the 500 is based on an estimated salary that you make, which (in China) is low, so id have to pay the miminum amount)

I dont know how this works in whereever you guys are from, but its probably similar to this.

Dajiang

[SueH]

[quote="John Hall"]

[Justin Trullinger]

I wish it were so, Dajiang.

But it takes a country with a well developed welfare state for this to happen.

I can't pay into the US social security system, unless I work there.

Anyway, benefits are tied to contributions, so if I paid five hundred a year, I'd get jack *beep*.


Not that I figure it will be solvent by the time I reach retirement...

The option of maintaining a government supported/mandated pension back home isn't an option for many of us.

Come to think of it, it's getting harder and harder back home.

Best,
Justin

[shuize]

[gugelhupf]

We Brits can pay a voluntary National Insurance contribution which preserves the right to a basic state pension at age 65 (used to be 60 for women). I continue to do so even though the basic Uk pension is very meagre, but it might be worth something if I retire somewhere where living is cheap. Apart from that I pay into a low-risk-but-poor-return long notice account in the UK using my mother's home address, and I have a former company pension that continues to earn interest until I'm old enough to draw it.

Assuming mother pops her clogs before I do I will probably have to think about switching to an 'offshore' savings account that I can operate safely from a foreign address.

I'm hoping to retire to Malaysia eventually, though that is about 20 years away for now.

[Stephen Jones]

How many generations of pedants are enough? :)

Mea culpa; I'd typed the erroneous phrase into Google and quite a few links to Buck v Bell came up, so I presumed they were correct.

As both 'imbecile' and 'idiot' were used as technical terms at the time, the mistake is not one of choosing the wrong synonym.

[bigbadsuzie]

Assuming one lives to reach retirement age ,what quality of life can you expect without kids or savings to support you ?
As long as you have one or the other life should be tolerable .If you have both then unless you throw money around carelessly life could be sweet .If you have savings ,property, and investments plus a U.K pension as well as a Turkish one and no kids or dependants then why am I worried about retirement ?
Maybe I think I won't live long enough to spend it !

[Deicide]

All I can say is: Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose when, but�we can decide how we meet that end, so that we are remembered�as men.

[Jetgirly]

[Stephen Jones]

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