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I've been working full-time for the past year and a half saving every penny I can so I can escape the working world (well, at least the version where I work on other people's shit) and go live in SE Asia. I'm getting really close now and it's an unbeliavably freeing feeling. I'm curious... is anyone else doing something similar?
1 month ago · 👍 clseibold, drh3xx, bavarianbarbarian, fripster_ontour, zero, ruby_witch
@drh3xx could be worse ;) i have to go to the city everyday and it is always a pleasure to arrive at home, seeing the cat, sittening on the porch and enjoing some sushi ;) · 1 month ago
@bavarianbarbarian sounds like you're living the dream :) · 1 month ago
I had a similar idea a while back, saved up a good amount and now I'm semi-retired here in the Netherlands, spending most of my time at the moment taking intensive Dutch lessons and hoping that they let me stick around. :) · 1 month ago
I also work hard to avoid working. What a life. · 1 month ago
the wife and i are building a off grid house all by ourselves with minimal debt. that’ll lower fixed costs massively once done. we still want to work, but not having to, and still living near the global epicenter of our industry is a gift. very freeing indeed! good luck in se asia. hope it stays quiet there, potential trouble usually isn’t far while the pacific region adapts to shifting power and influence. · 1 month ago
I moved back from the city to the outback, It's a peaceful life, just me and my cat, brewing beer, enjoying herbs, and as we say in bavaria, let god be a good man. · 1 month ago
@drh3xx Interesting, thanks for sharing! Being kid-less makes this way more doable for sure, but really cool to hear your thoughts. · 1 month ago
I'd love to sell up and get away from the insanity that is the modern world/"life". Only way I could truly achieve that though is payoff all my debts (house is a money pit) and have enough left over to build something capable of long-term habitation in international waters. Have looked into sea-steading so many times but projects all so damned expensive you'd need a large community and trade with nations to be even remotely viable :'( At this point I'd consider a small community in the middle of nowhere with legally questionable land occupation as a compromise but the Wife and kids wouldn't go for it. Good luck to you, hope things work out as planned. · 1 month ago