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Have you considered Vietnam?
VietNam
Interesting enough that I might give it a try sometime.
From what I read, you can get an apt there for $2-300/month and getting work is easy--common advice is that it's better to show up and look around. Pension would go a lot further than in Miyazaki. You can retain PR here, I think for up to a year (?), longer if you file paperwork saying you're going to be gone longer.
I've been to Oki several times. Low salaries, lots of competition (tho I never found it expensive). I guess your phone and health card would still work as expected, too.
(Whether you're aware, tho there is the US-Japan pension agreement, in the fine print it says that that does not qualify you for Medicare--ouch!)
Hi Johnny
Thanks for your kind suggestion about Vietnam. But that place is not going to work out for me. If I had loads of money, I hit Vietnam or Thailand these days.
I know my govt. pension (US) won't go far in Japan or even in the States, even if I got govt. housing, so I kind of feel maybe staying in Japan is my best bet. I'll be taking a train ride down to Miyazaki soon to check things out. Hopefully I find it where I would like to live. Of course, I have Japanese health insurance which at the moment is not too expensive on a yearly basis.
Again many thanks.