None of the old retired people I talked with so much about retirement warned me of the paperwork. They were all "Oh, it's so great I wish I had done it much earlier! Now I'm going to go drive somewhere to walk around the block again."
But no mention of the paperwork!
We spent all day today on paperwork; paperwork, accounting, translating, filing, bookkeeping. It was a lot of work. Although I will admit, the move to a foreign country really piles it all on. I remember a cute, snarky old t-shirt popular in the eighties, or maybe it's still popular? "Join the Army; travel to exotic, distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them."
A classic, no? And so it comes up in my mind, thinking "Work a full adulthood; save to bravely retire to a fabulous foreign land of harmonious lifestyles, and sit inside all day doing paperwork to stay there."
Not that I'm complaining. Not me. I don't have to drive somewhere to walk around the block, I can do it right out my front door!
And, AND
If I get tired while circling said block there will be a perfectly pleasant cafe to plop down at and have a Negroni, or something.
Or I can once the paperwork is done, I mean, which it is for today.
We'll see what the visa office has to say about it later.
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