Why work until I am ready to drop dead at 70 when I can retire like a king in my mid 40’s and have great weather and gorgeous women?

You’re right about that. I think that Chile is also a stable country on the way up. I have to go and check it out. There’s a Chinese saying that you need “parameters” for everything in life. That is one needs higher levels of certain qualities to compensate for defects that one might have. If a woman lacks beauty, she’d better have a pleasant personality. If a man is not handsome, he’d better be rich. I find foreign women beautiful and pleasant. Beautiful American women (of all races) are demanding and stuck-up. It’s all relative but once you’re experienced great service with delicious food, you don’t want to return to the old bad restaurant. (Alright, go ahead, lay it on me for generalizing).

Lindi, I’m not sure that builders pay high WC rates. Most of them subcontract their work out so it’s “out of sight, out of mind.” The building industry, like agriculture, would not do well without immigrant laborers.