International Living Magazine
[QUOTE=Sidney]IL's purposed is to sell properties in certain countries.[/QUOTE]Hi Sidney,
I wasn't familiar with the magazine "International Living" until this week. Jesus, the "International Living Retirement Index" is garbage! 55% of the index's weight is what I would call Real Cost of Living (Cost of Real Estate + Cost of Living + Cost of Health Care) and 20% of the index's weight is what they call "Special Benefits," which is highly subjective. Climate and Safety are each weighted at 5% and the numbers look like they were pulled out of a hat.
I hope no one made any retirement decisions based on this rigged index.
[b]NOTE: Anyone who wants a quality index would be much better off looking at the United Nation's Annual Human Development Index. Although, the UN's index doesn't take into account things like cost of living or climate, one can just scroll down the list until they get to a GDP/per capita and region they're comfortable with.[/b]
-Helpmann :)
[b][url=http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2009/chapters/]Human Development Report 2009[/url][/b]
[size=2][i]Human Development Index 2009 (2007 values)
1. Norway
2. Australia
3. Iceland
4. Canada
5. Ireland...
[b]13. United States...[/b]
44. Chile...
49. Argentina...
53. Mexico
54. Costa Rica...
55. Panama...
75. Brazil...
77. Colombia...
80. Ecuador...
[b]90. Dominican Republic...[/b]
100. Jamaica[/i][/size]