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casadecuenca
  9/12/2013 09:59 EST

My wife and I spent almost one month in Scotland in 2008 and fell in love with the country. I am now a widower thinking of Scotland as a retirement home. I am 73 in good health with income of about $1500 US. Is it possible to live in Scotland--in the highlands on that income?

mikkij
  9/12/2013 10:52 EST

I'm not sure how much money it would cost honestly.

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carrmia
  9/12/2013 17:40 EST

Do U have savings? can U afford 2 buy a small property perhaps a 1 bedrm. $1500 is @ $1.60 to a quid=937.50 pounds,if U can afford a property U pron can, tho not sure how U would B covered for health. SS will 4ward 2 UK, but U will lose what U have paid in2 medicare. If U have family U may B best 2 stay US

mikkij
  9/12/2013 17:59 EST

We have retirement other than Social Security, so I don't know about medical. We want to immigrate to Scotland.

cynthiaholden
  9/12/2013 18:22 EST

Please contact the American Womens Club of Central Scotland (AWCCS) and they will have members all over Scotland including some who have retired here. They can give you lots of information.

Good luck X

remoore2001
  10/9/2013 19:35 EST

Casa is not a widower. He abandoned his sick wife and now is engaged to an Ecuadorian women with cancer

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OceanHideaway
  11/16/2013 15:51 EST

Casade Cuenca is currently affianced to a lovely woman here in Ecuador who has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing treatment. He cannot marry as he is still legally married to his wife in Florida, USA who is in an Assisted Living facility on oxygen. He took the couples two dogs and fled to Ecuador 2 years ago. The divorce is not final because he married his second wife under an assumed name -- Malcolm Redding, which he stole from a young Englishman working for him in the 80's. Casade Cuenca's real name is Larry Neal Arnold. He changed his name followwinghis arrest for attmepted kidnapping and arson when he was looking to take his children from his first marriage in Michigan before fleeing bond and dissappearing to Penssylvania where the FBI caufht up with him under the new Malcolm name. He has used three names on this forum -- LuckyDawg, Dunmovin and now CasadeCuenca and has cvlaimed to be a divorcee, single, and widower and his age range has been between 69 and 74 over the past 4 years.

You don;t want him in Scotland any more than we wqant him in Ecuador -- but we seem to be stuck with him. If he is now using ExpatExchange to plan his next escape to another foreign land to take advantage of the women in that local, it is probably time to boot him off the site.

Please c0ontact the AWCCS and pass along the information so that your membership does not fall for this individuals falsehoods -- he is very good at what he does.

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