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What has been your best financial move in life? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 71 points 10 months ago (5 children)

A literal move actually. 20 years ago I moved from America to a country with universal health care. That has saved my family probably close to a quarter million bucks in health care fees alone.

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did you move to Vietnam?

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Close, it was Japan

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I've heard the Japanese have extreme xenophobia these days. How do you survive? Is it hard to make local friends?

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