世論 What Japan Thinks

Many Japanese hold the dream of retiring overseas (or do they? I must look up data!), so goo Ranking decided to investigate this issue by asking an unspecificed number of the goo Research online monitor group of unspecified ages if they were to retire and move overseas, which country or area would they most like to live in. The fieldwork for this research was conducted on the 22nd and 23rd of May 2007.

Perhaps connected to this, wifey has recently applied to Hilton Grand Vacations Club for us to go along and attend a 90 minute seminar on timeshares in Hawaii in return for 10,000 yen’s worth of food coupons. They are running the seminars every weekend at Tokyo and Osaka, so if you’re particularly bored this summer and don’t mind enduring some hard sell, why not go along and get free cash off them?

If I were to do so, going back to Blighty would seem like the obvious choice, but if we exclude there, New Zealand is the most attractive location, a bit like Scotland only with slightly better weather.

(I’ve just checked my dictionary, and the Antipodes is a rather UK-centric term for Australia and New Zealand)

Ranking results

Q: If you were to live overseas after retirement, where would you most live to live?

Rank	Location	Score
1	Hawaii	100
2	Australia	88.3
3	New Zealand	73.2
4	Switzerland	42.8
5	Continental USA	40.9
6	Canada	38.9
7	Italy	30.4
8	Sweden	28.8
9	Tahiti	27.2
10	Fiji	26.8
11	New Caledonia	25.3
12	France	24.5
13	Spain	22.6
14	United Kingdom	22.2
15	Germany	21.4
16	Thailand	21.4
17	Singapore	21.0
18	Austria	16.0
19	Malaysia	14.8
20	Holland	12.8
21	Taiwan	10.9
22	Vietnam	9.7
23	Belgium	8.6
24	Greece	8.2
25	Bulgaria	7.4
26	Portugal	6.6
27	South Korea	6.6
28	Philippines	6.2
29	Indonesia	5.8
30	Mexico	3.9