Let's rank out the facilities you might like to have around: 1. good bandwidth (I think there's reasonable wireless bandwidth for non-rich media usage in a lot more places than there used to be)
2. close to an international airport - just one internal hop away, maybe 3. great views - either the hills or the sea 4. close to a large city for supplies, medical care etc 5. Not crowded - good weather, climate, friendly people etc. Some places that do come up as candidates might be: 1. south Goa - south of Palolem (2 hours from an intl airport etc) 2. Coorg (though it is far away from Bangalore and / or Coimbatore) 3. Munnar - a few hours from TVM airport in Kerala 4. Western Ghats near Bombay (not Khandala or Lonavala but a little off the highway) 5. Alibaug, a couple of hours south of Bombay 6. Around lower Uttaranchal - Pantnagar airport makes things closer than Delhi used to: Naukuchiyatal, Ranikhet etc. 7. Ganpatipule / Ratnagiri approximately half way between Bombay and Goa. Any other thoughts? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Senftleben Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [silk] retirement home in India? Hi all, this talking about the advantages of this and that city, I was wondering... It's still almost twenty years, and not at all serious yet, but I consider having our retirement home in India (I'm not sure if my wife will join, but she's not that reluctant; as we've lived there already for twelve years, maybe this would be a good option). What do you think - where would be a good place (besides the fact that it's hard to tell today, but what would be your recommendations if it were to happen in a year or so)? Just one restriction is there: we'd prefer South India. I thought already of Mangalore, but I'm not at all sure. Cheers! Martin -- Martin Senftleben, Doctor of Philosophy, S.V. University, using Linux http://www.drmartinus.de/ http://www.daskirchenjahr.de/
