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re: Gentleman: doing it all over as a bachelor, where would you go to avoid the rat race?
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:32 am to joshnorris14
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:32 am to joshnorris14
Agree.
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Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:35 am to rocket31
#EatSlayLive
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:38 am to rocket31
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As opposed to being a bitter, fat, stumpy, balding involuntarily celibate nearing his 40s,
Is that supposed to be about me? You're just throwing shite at the wall if so. The only true part of that is that I am nearing my 40's but time is out of everyone's control, you dumb shite.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:39 am to slackster
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The grass isn't always greener FYI.
Yup.
I got out of the rat race. Did the professional musician thing. Was enjoyable and free. I was self-employed and set my own hours. My job was fully creative. Money was good...sometimes. It was nice finishing the month making $5000 doing nothing but hold a guitar. But then the next month it was $3100...and things didn't feel so good anymore. Then you meet that guy that made his entire career out of playing music and he's 58, driving three hours to some bar to play until 3am and then driving back. And he has to or else he doesn't eat.
Then I went to grad school to do the academia thing. But you better have that shite figured out early because once you have kids to feed and a wife to please, there's no time or room for you to take a huge hit in salary to get a few degrees.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:46 am to AUCE05
I'm thinking of leaving the states.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:47 am to StringedInstruments
I would move to either the far east or central/south america. You can live cheap, party your arse off, nobody cares what you are doing. I worked overseas and a lot of guys I worked with gave up the US life for overseas, some countries I know of that they lived inL
Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Thailand, Malaysa, Phillipines, Bali, Cambodia, Vietnam. All are cheap as hell, have good looking ladies, and are safe enough if you don't cause trouble.
Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Thailand, Malaysa, Phillipines, Bali, Cambodia, Vietnam. All are cheap as hell, have good looking ladies, and are safe enough if you don't cause trouble.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:48 am to StringedInstruments
I did the academia thing already. Oh well.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:50 am to JL
That's where I'm leaning. Teach English. Make a little cash. Freedom. Good weather.
What did they do for income?
I guess i just need to talk to someone who has made the move.
What did they do for income?
I guess i just need to talk to someone who has made the move.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:51 am to rocket31
South America, mate
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:54 am to NIH
Yaa matey. I'll send a postcard
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:58 am to rocket31
Join a traveling circus and get all of the gypsy poon imaginable
Posted on 3/26/17 at 10:59 am to AUCE05
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Move to one of the western mountain states. Freelance engineering. Spend my off time fly fishing.
this would be my dream...unfortunately, I just can't figure out a way to make the $ work.
the western states have notoriously high cost of living, yet there is basically no industry so you can't really make much cash as an engineer.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:01 am to JL
Myself and the wife are seriously considering retiring to Costa Rica. Looks like paradise and you can get a 5000 square foot house on the ocean for like 300K.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:02 am to fr33manator
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a decent S. American country or a place in the Orient.
Where you could live like a king on a pauper's budget, have beautiful women attend to your needs, and sample fine cuisine.
Costa Rica
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:03 am to Spankum
I already have this worked out in my mind. Sub contract myself out to a few firms. Expand my territory to WY, ID, MT and CO. Would have plenty to do.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:03 am to rocket31
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Possibly not. But following society's goals in life. Education, wife, kids, 40 hr per week job etc. Sounds like one big slave colony
How terrible, getting an education, having a wife that you love and loves you back, having kids that you can raise as your own, and having a steady income so you don't have to worry about where your next meal is coming from
If you want to avoid all this, go be a drug dealer in a low income area. Your hours are always in the middle of the night, you'll never have a wife, never see the kids you father, and you'll have a really exciting job of running from the police and other drug dealers. You never even need an education, you won't have a real job anyway. And you don't have to worry about saving for retirement bc you won't live to see your 40th birthday
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:08 am to rocket31
Check out Guam. Technically you are still in the states, but you are reasonably close to Australia and New Zealand. From there you can be in SE Asia. You would need some specific skills to make money tho.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:16 am to rocket31
I'd go to Montana, buy cheap land, put a trailer on it.
Do freelance work that I could work from home and travel when necessary.
Do freelance work that I could work from home and travel when necessary.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:17 am to thelawnwranglers
All the good looking women in costa rica are from colombia or venezuela, the locals women are but ugly. Go straight to the source.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:19 am to JL
quote:And get kidnapped? No thanks
colombia or venezuela
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