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The retire-abroad channels you watch are made, by construction, by the people for whom it worked. The ones it broke don't post a final video. The denominator is missing.

'Lifetime renewable' reads as a safety net. Across insurers it is a deadline: who accepts you, until what age, on what condition. The matrix.

Living alone raises mortality risk by a third, and the most exposed cohort abroad is the one no dataset counts. The sourced mechanism, stated cold.

No agency counts how many retirees stay, so model it: 100 arrivals decay to 54 in place at 75, 18 at 85. The stay-curve, with its bands stated.

One legally mandated dataset of deaths abroad exists, and by statute it excludes the death the aging expat is likeliest to have. The sourced count.

At 65, a regional health plan costs about half what an international one does. The Philippines-vs-Thailand gap is real locally and gone globally. Sourced.

Healthcare costs in the Philippines climb 16% a year, in Thailand about 11% — both far above CPI. The trend rate, not today's cheap bill, decides whether the plan survives to 80.

There is no single 'FX decline' but a currency-by-country matrix, and one cell has no defence. The 18-year carry of a sterling and a dollar pension.

Two identical UK pensioners, two Southeast Asian countries, one pension frozen for life. The sourced decade of what the freeze has already cost.

No agency counts how many Western retirees leave Thailand or the Philippines. The silent cohort, triangulated from three directions, uncertainty stated.