I believe the average pensioner spends most of their income on keeping warm through the winter and cutting back what they eat leading to more misery. A pensioner could come and live in the philippines quite easily on a british state pension and not have to worry about the gas bill anymore and have good quality nursing care if required but its family ties that would stop most pensioners from making the move. if I had no family and was say 15 or 20 years older I would stay here that,s for sure, because so many old people suffer in england in their twilight years. Thats the one thing I envy about philippinos they look after momma and pappa at home until they die, in the uk you get thrown into a nursing home and just about getting a visit once a fortnight if ya lucky.