| Where do the good guys go when it is time to retire? I | | | | wellies. |
| said good guys, mind you; not rich guys. Sometimes | | | | Arabs spend their retirement traveling to all the |
| they are not the same thing. | | | | countries that do not have oil reserves and |
| Americans tend to retire to gated communities I have | | | | congratulating themselves on their own good fortune, |
| noticed, cannot think why. It would not do for me, it | | | | and the Japanese do not actually retire, they just work |
| would remind me rather of a security conscious | | | | with increasing intensity until they drop dead. |
| boarding school where I spent a particularly unpleasant | | | | Australians stay in Australia because they have a |
| ten months as a child. | | | | fierce national pride which would prevent them from |
| The Brits go for places like Italy and Spain, or the | | | | leaving. New Zealanders stay in New Zealand |
| coast of UK where they enjoy being flooded with | | | | because it is too far and too expensive to get to |
| regular monotony and remarking that the sunsets are | | | | anywhere else, and the Dutch stay in Holland because |
| spectacular. I could not manage to admire a sunset if I | | | | it is flatter than any other destination and they hate hills. |
| was standing in flood water three inches over my | | | | |