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Funny, but I discussed this topic with the 50-year-old FIOs installer just two weeks ago. He was trying to advise his college-aged daughter on a career choice, and after he described her being back and forth trying to decide between pursuing her love of teaching and some other more lucrative...

I am assuming you have sufficiently planned monthly cash flow and capital preservation and appreciation to retire in an OK but not spectacular style in the U.S. but you are only using the lower cost to upgrade your lifestyle, then let's take each of the reason you listed to see if returning to...

Oh, that's going to be a problem because I plan to live for another 200 years. That's why I plan to live on 1/2 of my income even in retirement. Otherwise, I would have left already.

I find these artificial definitions to be a bit meaningless at best and quite detrimental at the worst. It's the like the do you consider yourself rich threads and the how low is your withdrawal rate threads. It's one thing if you use it as a sanity check but quite another if you think its some...

Ozzie, sorry for sidetracking your discussion, but every one of these overseas thread seems to get side tracked this way. It's not surprising considering most of the people who can ditch everything and relocate are probably middle aged+ single men, so topic of the Asian women invariably gets...

I can see that this thread is going to degenerate into another soon-to-be-closed thread if we continue down this path of discussion. Let's just put it this way, when the other side has most of the power, engaging in battle is not fun, and that is how I see the dating and gender situation in the...

I see and I agree with your point, but I think I may have been a bit vague with my references. The ability to fish refers to the ability to attract other women. By moving to a lower-cost area, one automatically moves up the economic ladder to the equivalent of a successful boat captain with...

Well, how about in order of importance 1) the economic opportunity of being able to fully retire in one's 40s instead of in one's 50s, 2) more social opportunity with friends, 3) more social opportunities, wink, wink. :) I find my current semi ER/business building experience to be one of...

I spent most of yesterday reading Best Places to Live in Southeast Asia on Social Security or pension. Living in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam. Best places to retire. and watch retirecheapjc's YouTube channel. He seems to me a fairly well adjusted expat. I was very happy especially after...

Exactly. 15 minutes on my iPhone app while I am on the can every morning, and I got all I need.

Thread jack alert: So what does a tornado and a marriage in common? In the beginning, there is a lot of blowing and sucking, but at the end someone loses a house.

Thanks. I recently sprained my back carrying a bunch of construction debris to the dumpster. I worsen my back problem by spending too much time reclining in my sofa. I saw your ice advice, and it helped immediately! For one if I am icing my back, I have to lie flat on my back, so that also...

I finally waded through the first 4 pages of the Hua Hin Forum discussion that you posted. Wow, the high end is 200k baht/month or $6,666 USD/month. Any time budget discussions come up on these boards, you invariably get a few braggarts talking about how much money they manage to blow. I don't...

I hope she likes the county jail's amenities, or is the fact that a woman puts you in a hospital not a crime worth punishing?

Yeah, I agree. Keep it on topic. I had to pay for the immaturity of some posters when I asked for verification of apartment costs and the other posters started measuring wedding dresses for their new mail-order brides. I usually lead the pack in immature comments but have never caused a thread...

Anyone gave any thought to managing the business remotely especially those who are buying in las Vegas? Tryan tried it a while back and said that having a property manager really ate into his profits because the manager would call the plumber at the drop of a hat.

Had one of those. She did help me learn lots of Spanish. It was an immersion program and a half. However, I don't think that's a realistic option even here in Florida because most of the Spanish-speaking population's English is way better than my Spanish, so even if I do land a Puerto Rican or...

Excerpt from the article: True enough. Now that I am working for myself. My days alternate between, "Yipee, I am going to be so rich!" to "Crap, this is how people go bankrupt" in the matter of hours. There just are a lot of headaches and sacrifices, and I'm not even trying to get mega rich...

Damn it, Calmloki. You and Tryan are supposed to be the Yodas of investment properties. Please get back to our regular programming of spreadsheets and numbers. LOL.

For my exit interview, I had the fortune of doing it online (or maybe they couldn't spare the human resource to interview a dirt-level PM). LOL. I was tempted to write, "I am voting with my feet. Figure out what I am gracious enough to not say," but I was so tired of the drama, the re-orgs, the...

I know what I am about to trot out is OLD news, but I am surprised that the vacation home tangent has no numbers. Before I buy a property, I use the following simple spreadsheet. I can't copy a spreadsheet here, so I just included the row names. Basically gross potential rental income minus...

It's not much better. LOL. Imagine people from other divisions who sit in the same building coming over to your area to ask if your group has been eliminated. Nope, they have not been fired. They just invented clever excuses to not show up during June - August. My kids don't have after school...

Read the books recommended by Nords, and then bug Tryan on PM until his ears and your finger tips fall off, then invite Tryan to lunch and talk until both of your faces are blue and the wait staff look at you impatiently so that they get you out of the dinning room. Have all of your fears...

Hm...I drove around for 7 years in a 2002 Dodge Caravan Sport from 2002-2009 and used a piece of cardboard to firm up the cushion because the non-height-adjustable seat had developed a depression probably from the 1.5 years it spent as a rental car in Florida ferrying fat tourists, and there was...

If you have to take a piece of useless furniture, then at least make sure that it matches the existing color scheme. There is nothing worse than a useless piece of furniture that also clashes. Been there and experienced that. At my previous job, the customer support guy admitted to having...