peladoboton wrote:http://finance.yahoo.com/news/France-to-raise-retirement-apf-2224969549.html?x=0&.v=4

None of this bothers us since we are both 73, and never received any pension from France! Anyway, we just moved back to Denmark some six weeks ago.

I get the humour in the OP but from 60-62???

Canada's mandatory retirement age was 65 until it was ruled discriminatory under our human rights regulations. People are now free to work to whatever age they want. Although "free" is a subjective term, they really had to get rid of the mandatory retirement legislation because a whole generation is unprepared financially to retire and must keep working.

Gary Schenk wrote:

Ejnar Fjerdingstad wrote:

peladoboton wrote:http://finance.yahoo.com/news/France-to-raise-retirement-apf-2224969549.html?x=0&.v=4

None of this bothers us since we are both 73, and never received any pension from France! Anyway, we just moved back to Denmark some six weeks ago.

You did? Why the change, I thought you liked France.

There were many reasons, all personal and some too painful to tell, at least right now. But it had nothing to do with not liking France. And we have already seen how bad the Danish health system is compared to the French. C'est incroyable!

Geez, I'm sorry. I clicked on the wrong thread.

I thought this was "The World According to Ejnar and Lolli" thread!

My sincerest apologies in French:

"Je suis désolé !"

"...retirement legislation because a whole generation is unprepared financially to retire and must keep working."

Wow, this sounds EXACTLY (like) what's currently happening in America!

I haven't seen so many folks who don't give a dam about
their retirement. It's very scary!

Bon chance, Ejnar.

Thank you Gary, butitsadryheat, and dadndave. There are advantages too, of course, for instance we were able to buy a house in beautiful Northern Zealand for only half of what it would have cost before the crisis (they had cut the price by $ 80.000 just while they were waiting to sell it!).