Reply #31: Australia [View All]

[marions ghost]

My sister married an Australian and lives there. They decided not to live in the US because of the health care issues, and also the crime. It turned out to be a good decision because her child had a lot of health complications (making her into a virtual nurse) and her husband died of a rare cancer. Throughout the ordeals she went through they had excellent health care without financial hardship. The local govt even helped with some of her childcare assistance. Thank God she did not have those worries then and is not having to pay big debts now. I'm not sure she would have made it if she had been over here. But it's sad that because of health care, they could never live over here. I'm sure she will never come back.

Once you live without those health care worries (on top of all the other worries we have today), you would never want to go backwards to the stone age either.