To all foreign nurses in the US, will you retire in US or go back to your homeland?

With the looming depression and current financial crisis that we are experiencing, I want to ask those foreign nurses who are currently working in the US.

Even if there is gonna be a depression (although im pretty sure we would NOT have one if a bailout happens) I am NOT gonna retire in the Philippines. I have only been here in the US for 2 years as a legal resident but like pinoyNP, my present life is already intertwined here in the US. my wife just gave birth one month ago and I know that we would be raising our children here in the US. they in turn would raise their children here in the US. I dont think my children would live with me and my wife in Manila. we are not US citizens (we would be applying soon) yet but our home will be here in the US for the next 30 years at least. we would probably visit Manila a few months every year but most likely spend most of our time here in the US after we retire.

one more thing,I get pretty angry whenever somebody trashes or puts America down.

Even if there is gonna be a depression (although im pretty sure we would NOT have one if a bailout happens) I am NOT gonna retire in the Philippines. I have only been here in the US for 2 years as a legal resident but like pinoyNP, my present life is already intertwined here in the US. my wife just gave birth one month ago and I know that we would be raising our children here in the US. they in turn would raise their children here in the US. I dont think my children would live with me and my wife in Manila. we are not US citizens (we would be applying soon) yet but our home will be here in the US for the next 30 years at least. we would probably visit Manila a few months every year but most likely spend most of our time here in the US after we retire.

one more thing,I get pretty angry whenever somebody trashes or puts America down.

Am glad everything went well for you...I remember during the days that we are starting here in the US.

And I remember quite well for both of you as well.

So happy to see how far both of you have come.

It really means alot to me.

And please do not stay away from here, or at least keep in touch. Miss you.

No, promises this time but I'll keep in touch. Im not working in ICCU anymore, got burnt out. Working in PACU and loving it, although part time. Looking for a full time position in PACU but it's getting tougher during this days.

Miss you too, angel. Hope to see you soon.

I'll cross the bridge when I get there. It's too early to tell. I am now a US Citizen but there's more than 30 years before I reach that retirement age. But I'm open to options and choices.

For Me: My wife is from Philippines and she is soon to be a "RN Nurse", still going thru all the AOS/BON/NCLEX/ATT stuff.

I was born and raisied in USA, and love it with all my heart and will defend her to the end.

But we have talked and hopefully we can move on to Philippines in 10 years and live over there.

We hope my assets I have now and my wifes future assets will be enough to sustain us in PI. Of course I will try to open some type of business in PI, because I enjoy making money.

The value of my US Dollar is worth so much more in PI.

For me I will soon go back to my native land-The Philippines, because I've talked to some Filipino nurses in the US and they said the money that you'll be getting from Social Security as a pensioner would cost only $3000 a month, and for me I don't think this is sufficient enough to pay for my cost of living in the US if I stay here for my retirement and not working, I would rather spend it in the Philippines and live there for the rest of my retirement age..

Here is another thing to realize about the USA.

We have about 20 million illegal aliens in USA, and they will work cheap for numerous reason, one of them is because they can't get a real Social Security Number.

In the town I live in we have mass numbers on Illegal Aliens, and Dallas is a Sanctuary City where Illegal Aliens are protected from the law and can't be deported, and their are many Sanctuary Cities in USA.

These 20 millions Illegals will soon have children, and since most illegals tend to be from Catholic Countries they have many children.

So our work force in the next 20 to 50 years is going to have an abudance of legal workers, and the labor rate will start to decline dramatically.

So the USA will not be the "Land of Honey" and "Land Of Opportunity" in a few more years, unless massive changes to Illegal Aliens in USA is done.

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I have been living in the United States for over 30 years and I have been a U.S. citizen since 1983. I don't consider myself a "foreign nurse", or even a foreigner for that matter. America is my home. I am an American with Filipino blood. However I am a foreign nursing graduate, this is one thing that will never change.

I consider myself lucky to have worked in a government-owned hospital here in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. As a government nurse who worked hard for 27 1/2 years I was able to take early retirement this year. My pension is coming from the hospital and not from the federal Social Security. The Social Security pension can kick in when I turn 62 years old should I choose to take early retirement on the federal level.

My wife and I have been closely following the economic, political and security issues in the Philippines. With the global financial collapse there have been speculations that the economy of the Philippines will follow the rest of the world.

Those U.S. Filipinos who bought luxury condominiums in the Philippines and who are now experiencing financial difficulties in the U.S. may foreclose or may try to sell their real estate properties in the Philippines. If enough numbers of them will do the same thing then the real estate bubble in the Philippines may burst, mirroring the housing bubble in the U.S.A.

Politics and corruption in the Philippines go hand in hand. Same old, same old.

Crime is one thing that worries me the most. It becomes very personal once you become a victim of crime. Filipinos are very kind and hospitable people, but poverty and crime are chronic and vexing problems. With the worsening Philippine economy things will only get worse before they become better. One has to use common sense to lessen the chance of being a crime victim.

I took early retirement in October and I plan to work in the private sector early in 2009. I may sound like a broken record to regular readers of this forum and I apologize if I bore you to death!

I went to the Philippines for an extended stay after I retired. Although I tremendously enjoyed my stay in the Philippines I don't think I will retire there on a permanent basis.

Once I'm receiving both my hospital and Social Security pensions, my wife and I plan to stay in the Philippines for a few months at a time if we are so lucky enough to live that long, however we plan to spend most of our "golden years" in the good ol' U.S. of A.

Maybe my wife will take care of the grand kids while I wow the old ladies in the local senior citizen centers with my dancing abilities. My wife has already speculated that those senior citizen centers may close down once they see me dancing on the floor. Rats!

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