The Pre-Move Reality-Check Framework
Every retire-abroad checklist is built to clear you to go. This one can return 'no': four solvencies, financial to exit, scored on 25-year survival.
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repatriation
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"I'll Just Go Home If It Goes Wrong" — Why the Escape Clause Fails When You Invoke It
The universal expat reassurance is a conditional that fails exactly when it is needed. 'Go home' decomposed into five preconditions, each plotted.
Dying in Thailand: The Repatriation Runbook and Its Real Cost
Sending a body from Thailand to the USA runs $10,000-$20,000 all-in, over 6-13 weeks, under a 30-day clock. The repatriation runbook, costed by leg.
Priced Out of Going Home: The Repatriation Affordability Gap
Average UK rent alone is about 131% of the full state pension. 'I'll just go home' is the fallback nobody costs, and its price rises every year abroad.
The Return-Rate Triangulation — A Cohort-Decay Model
No agency counts how many retirees stay, so model it: 100 arrivals decay to 54 in place at 75, 18 at 85. The stay-curve, with its bands stated.
How Many Expats Die Abroad — Reading the Consular Data
One legally mandated dataset of deaths abroad exists, and by statute it excludes the death the aging expat is likeliest to have. The sourced count.
How Many Actually Go Home — and Why
No agency counts how many Western retirees leave Thailand or the Philippines. The silent cohort, triangulated from three directions, uncertainty stated.