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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're early 60s, correct? based on your H being "upper 70s" in 15 years.

I wouldn't live further than a 20 minute fast drive from the equivalent of an American tertiary hospital. You are entering peak stroke, MI and head bleed (fall) years, and where you get initial care makes all the difference in an acute event. By my criteria, almost none of the Italian or French countryside qualifies.  For the same reason, I personally wouldn't retire to much of Maine, the Smoky Mountains, Martha's Vineyard, etc. [/quote]

Why so anxious for medical treatment when you’re living no life at all?[/quote]

Because all day long I take care of people who just suffered an acute event, particularly strokes and MIs. The ones who get fast great care at my hospital that you’ve definitely heard of bounce right back within the week and go on to hike again in Iceland. The ones who come in an hour+ later after the wife finds them acting “off” lose brain function forever.  Then they stay alive for 20 years with 66% less physical and mental capacity. Maybe in assisted living and definitely not hiking and biking the French countryside. I am specifically thinking of the patient I had today who used to be hale and hearty, and then fell and hit his head during a trek in Poland and had a slow head bleed  and now can’t use the entire right side of his body and keeps having seizures.

There are so many fantastic locales near good hospitals, even sorta rural places like the Berkshires or outside of Florence, Italy. [/quote]

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