I appreciate your participation but seriously I’ve been writing here neraly three years now and most of what I have been writing is centered on those particular subjects. In particular I wrote a 10 part series, as it happened that starts here:
that you might find of interest.

So far as federal retirement goes I write about that often on my http://www.retiredpay.com blog … inorder to answer any questions on federal retirement I first need to know one thing, CSRS or FERS … there’s so many differences between them that I could write a bookand have all the info wrong if it was for the opposite plan. Merry Christmas

You don’t want to read the tax regulations here. I’ve been doing that the last few days – already giving me a migraine. Problem is that it keeps on changing, so you don’t even know what you are reading is up to date or not

In “Moving Plans – Permissions”

Hi Dave, here is something I am going to raise: In Canada, issues like getting dual citizenship there, rather than here in the Philippines came up too. I have heard comments like: It may be easier here in Canada but then they will have records in the embassy of this, hence keep on sending “notices” to file income tax returns.

Is this true? I know that when we immigrated to Canada, I had renewed my philippine passport there, and have been receiving notices to file returns. I filed because I had no income anyway – was a student. But later, I stopped filing. I recalled they stopped sending me notices too.

Thanks to you and your site for all that it provides. Would appreciate your knowledge/experiences/helpful hints/lessons learned/hindsight/”if I could do it over I would?” etc.,

re: retiring from the fed government (process)
becoming an expat (items/documents to bring)
interaction/expectations of foreign spouses
with Phillippine family e.g. should or shouldn’t you reside
in close proximity, support, etc

Dave, sorry for the broad laundry list…a “one over the world” response is ok

regards