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Forbes: Quit Your Job And Live Abroad: 10 Places So Cheap You Might Be Able To Stop Working
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Lmao wtf is this list?
I'm quitting my $40k job tomorrow and taking a boat to France with nothing but lint and a blank CD in my pocket.
I'm quitting my $40k job tomorrow and taking a boat to France with nothing but lint and a blank CD in my pocket.
They live in peace.
How do you pay expenses and food with 300€?
It is half of the minimum wage
Oh no. Just that I know housing can be very cheap in parts of Italy. The place we will be living is going to be around 600€ a month.
Let's not kid ourselves - cheap cost of living is not the only reason most people (men) go to Vietnam or Malaysia.
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On a serious note: As someone from a developing country, Americans don't know how different day to day life can be in a developing nation. A lot of little things are different.
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On a serious note: As someone from a developing country, Americans don't know how different day to day life can be in a developing nation. A lot of little things are different.
oh cool. whereabouts? also permanently or just temporarily?
been to Italy a few times but only the northern parts. next time it's on to Rome!
Yeah, I live in Thailand and live pretty well for cheap. If I gave up some luxuries (meal prep done for me) it would be extremely cheap.
Would love to move to Portugal. Probably not happening for over a decade until I retire.
Are you Elon Musk? 😂
Yeah, things can be quite different, but if you're in a big city there are usually enough things to make it easier.
We'll be in Molise, for at least one year while my wife and kids apply for Italian citizenship. After that, we will see. We plan to settle somewhere in Europe.
Mexico?
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I mean, sure, if you earn your salary only on dollars, I guess
Edit. I see, is for retirement. Eh, then it's more or less true
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I mean, sure, if you earn your salary only on dollars, I guess
Edit. I see, is for retirement. Eh, then it's more or less true
Hm I guess... every time I go to my home country (Peru) for an extended period of time I miss small conveniences. I guess if you are retiring it might be different as you just need to stay home and in your general area.
Once you have a home/land, you can live in Alaska for nothing. There are no statewide income or sales taxes. The state cuts you a check for $2000 just for living there. You can live off grid and live off the land.
I would rather do that.
I would rather do that.
Lol at Mexico being in there, it only works if you already have enough money to settle in a nice neighborhood, otherwise, if you move into the cheaper areas of the country as a foreigner, you will get grabbed as a piggy bank really quick.
ohh ok. So you are super rich by colombian standards? Nice. I guess the list from Forbes is for people with serious cash. I recommend you not living in coast cities, the sewer system is BAD, maybe "La región cafetera" where I'm from, is more affordable and there is "less" corruption (still a lot of corruption, tho). But I was talking from the P.O.V of a colombian. I live in a country where the middle class is gone and we aren't going to have the opportunity of retirement.
Edit: And Cundimarca and Antioquia (Departamentos) both have the best health care system in Colombia. If you are serious of coming here for good, don't doubt on contact me. I could help you with some basic info for your settling in.
So... What you're saying is my retirement pay would stretch a lot further in France, Spain, or Portugal?
What? Living in France without having to work?? Huh... how?
Who made that list? Probably somebody that never set foot in France...
Who made that list? Probably somebody that never set foot in France...
To be fair, I live in Bangkok where there is a TON of conveniences - you can pay a dude on a motorcycle to go grab something from 7-11 for you if you're that lazy. Never been to Peru!
I have many colleagues there and they love it for the lifestyle and cost.
what is up with the media trying to destroy Portugal?
leave Portugal alone!!!!!
the tourism boom peddled by magazines is so fucked up.
AirBnB is destroying affordable housing in Portugal while low-income wages remain stagnant.
stop! stop! stop!
Housing is so screwed up in Portugal in the last 3 years. It's not normal.
Portugal minimum wage is still 600 Euros a month while Spain's is 1100 Euros a month, BUT, Real Estate speculators are spiking the Housing Market and making it impossible for a millennial Portuguese to buy a home
Fuck AirBnB
leave Portugal alone!!!!!
the tourism boom peddled by magazines is so fucked up.
AirBnB is destroying affordable housing in Portugal while low-income wages remain stagnant.
stop! stop! stop!
Housing is so screwed up in Portugal in the last 3 years. It's not normal.
Portugal minimum wage is still 600 Euros a month while Spain's is 1100 Euros a month, BUT, Real Estate speculators are spiking the Housing Market and making it impossible for a millennial Portuguese to buy a home
Fuck AirBnB
That's not cheap, dude lol
Btw please don't come to Spain, people, our housing situation is bad as it is :(
You can't quit your job, but rent is affordable. Like I said above, I work a low-paying job in L.A. and earn more than my older siblings with stable careers in France, yet I'm struggling to make rent, have zero savings and my credit cards are maxed out, whereas my siblings all live comfortable lives. I'm fine with it for now because I really love L.A., but someone with no particular preference would have gone back ages ago. Rent and Internet are much cheaper, and the rest is equivalent.
Dude WTF. A dollar? Are you fucking kidding me? To own a house in Italy? Whats the catch? Horrible weather? Terrorists? Cut off from public utilities and no convenience stores for hundreds of miles? No internet?
I read the article. $17 grand required to remodel plus 5gs deposit which gets returned.... Which is peanuts compared to the insanity of California.
What is going on there? Seriously is it a trap?
If you can earn the equivalent of ~ 1.000€ to 1.500€ per month you can sustain a couple (no kids) in Portugal without your partner having to work at all. If you're smart. Stuff like cable, internet, water, gas and electricity can get out of hand if you don't take advantage of the more wallet friendly deals. Food is super cheap, so that's a daily expense you're gonna cut down in while retaining massive quality regardless.
If both people in the couple earn the amount above you can easily sustain a family. You kinda also can with just one but things become very tight.
Also - and very importantly-just because the cost of life is cheaper (vs other countries or what you may earn) it doesn't mean there isn't quality of life.
If both people in the couple earn the amount above you can easily sustain a family. You kinda also can with just one but things become very tight.
Also - and very importantly-just because the cost of life is cheaper (vs other countries or what you may earn) it doesn't mean there isn't quality of life.
Portugal, France, Spain? This list should really not include any European country, let alone EU countries. Your money might last longer in some of them, but you won't get ten years of work-free living there without another income.
Those towns are completely dead, hardly anyone lives there and as such, any commodities like stores to buy stuff are far away. They are selling these houses cheap in the hopes it reattracts people.
The catch is that most cheap houses are in a horrible condition and they need some serious work done to be liveable. They are also located in completely dead areas where all the people have moved away (Italy's population is declining and rural areas of course take the biggest hit).
It's the same situation as in Japan where you could get dirt cheap abandoned houses in many small towns.
some of my coworkers have some nice looking house in Colombia/Mexico/Haiti; they definitely living like kings/queens when they quit/reitre...always living it up when they go on vacation...onc is curently enjoying himself a two month vacation....