[quote=mixxalot]Desperate house horny buyers will get slaughtered. I figure that I can save 500K in five years then retire overseas to a nice place like Thailand or Chile rather than pay over 1MM for a crapshack and be debt for 30 years.[/quote]

This only works for single people with no kids…

I agree that if you can “fit in” in another lower cost, foreign country, that will certainly make your dollars last much much longer than here.

Some of my relatives left the US back to Asia since healthcare alone was a concern which can pretty much bankrupt anyone here.

If I was single/no kids, I’d probably try to move, but trying to find high paid work in a foreign country might not be that easy for most folks.