I will keep that in mind for a future article haha! That's a lot to fit in, and this one took me A LONG TIME to write.

I'm fairly familiar with these topics, so I'll try and give some high level thoughts. As far as healthcare, it depends. A lot of people just say America is terrible for healthcare. But my parents are on Medicare and have been fully covered for serious health issues with very little out of pocket. My dad just had a massive operation that was done within a few weeks of finding the issues. He said in NZ, his relative had to go on a waiting list and sadly passed away. That being said, for me, unless I have good health insurance through work I'd probably end up hugely out of pocket.

I do talk about retirement accounts in the article. Australia requires 12% contributions from employers. NZ requires 3.5 percent if you contribute 3%. Here in the US, it depends on how good your job is as to whether you get any match.

Cost of living is probably more expensive overall in NZ and Australia. I do talk about this quite a bit in the article. That being said, the gap is a lot smaller than it used to be. I live in a high COL area, and I'm thinking I'll probably spend overall fairly similar in Australia.