Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
#43. My son Des is a computer analyst and programmer and lives in the uk , it must have been a conducive job salary wise as he informed me at Xmas on the phone that he had just retired , at the age of 56. When I was 56 I was counting the dollars and years to 65. Luckily I was living in Australia by that time , and had to get 10 years of working to be able to claim anything from government and also be a citizen. I just made it. Can’t imagine the difference in life styles between the UK and here at that time in history. Cheers JS