Reply With QuoteThink I go and grab popcorn's.
Does this actually happen in Germany ???
http://www.businessinsider.com/germa...tizens-2012-12
WTF .....Surely can't be true ???
Think I go and grab popcorn's.
Bloody nazis the lot of them
Just wait till your home country can't afford youOriginally Posted by timetraveller
Oh noes, old people being sent to be cared for in atropical islands with people that can actually give them more care per Euro than they can get in Europe... oooooh
I've heard about some trouble with Germans moving people to eastern europe in past. Just saying.
Not even sure what they mean with "sent" in the article.
Yes, some elderly choose to move to foreign countries after retirement because its cheaper or they like the climate. How is that new?
I also see this as rather harmful for Germany because it means that these people spend their money outside of Germany.
Some fortunate children with a big wallet could SEND their parents off to a place where they may enjoy their days overseas. I get that the article is trying to portray Europeans as hating their elderly and trying to pawn them off as tourists to other unsuspected countries
Maybe Germany has a public system where you pay in as a lottery to hopefully send your nagging grandmother off to a foreign land?
This message somehow got into the Czech media, but it is rather the lack of other topics. According to figures from the article was about ten thousand people, so the impact on the economy of Germany is not measurable, and in general the article is a piece of poor journalism.
No numbers from Spain and Greece? Why?Researchers found an Estimated 7146 German pensioners living in retirement homes in Hungary in the 2011th More than 3,000 had been sent to homes in the Czech Republic, and there were more Than 600 in Slovakia. Also there are unknown numbers in Spain, Greece and Ukraine. Thailand and the Philippines are attracting ook Increasing numbers.
update:
This thread made me read an article in one the most popular Czech web newspaper and I found that the editor just translated and jumble sentences from the original Guardian article. I do not understand how anyone can get money for such work.
Last edited by dr.mucholina; 12-27-2012 at 11:41 PM.
THIS!!!
I thought it was every retirees dream to spend their twilight years in the beach where its warm while sipping some weird drink with umbrellas on it.
(p.s. In before someone posts Germans are going east....oh wait too late) lol just kidding guys
What happens in Germany stays in Florida. I've met more German tourist in the desert than I've met in Florida. Wait, the term tourists is relative.
The article was more about those who seeks medical care, which is too expensive to them. But what confuse me more is why guardian care about german old man. Why not some german media?
I thought they got in more trouble moving them out...I've heard about some trouble with Germans moving people to eastern europe in past. Just saying.
Wasn't it the French a few years back that thought it would be OK to leave Oma and Opa till after they got back from vacation in August?
And why not, in the Philippines for example surgeries are far cheaper than in the west, yet most specialist did their studies and early stint in American or European hospitals. Even the hospitals here can compete in terms of care and operations in the west.
I just dont see any issues at all. I would rather see elderlys walking around over here and wandering the beaches or the cities with someon to care for them rather than get stuck in a home for the aged, now thats no way to treat grandpa.
If my grandchildren would deport my wrinkled ass somewhere warm and sunny I won't complain.
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