You only get one life..

WarZ

After years and years of working my ass off in Dublin, hating my job and spending my weekends getting slaughtered drunk for no real good reason I have decided to take a massive step in my life before its too late.

I am moving to a country in Central America. Why? It's dirt cheap, along a beautiful coast and crime is low. When I was younger I went there before and on just a thousand euros a month including everything I can eat out, live in a fancy place for next nothing.

Before people ask, yes I've been to the place before. I am going to quit my job on Monday, sell the car, sublet the apartment. Take my savings and off I go. Ive no commitments here and u know what? I cant wait.

Anyone else done something similar? Anyone besides mynameisURL because I thinnk I've heard him talk about Vietnam a ziliion times

makingmecrazy

WarZ wrote: »

After years and years of working my ass off in Dublin, hating my job and spending my weekends getting slaughtered drunk for no real good reason I have decided to take a massive step in my life before its too late.

I am moving to a country in Central America. Why? It's dirt cheap, along a beautiful coast and crime is low. When I was younger I went there before and on just a thousand euros a month including everything I can eat out, live in a fancy place for next nothing.

Before people ask, yes I've been to the place before. I am going to quit my job on Monday, sell the car, sublet the apartment. Take my savings and off I go. Ive no commitments here and u know what? I cant wait.

Anyone else done something similar? Anyone besides mynameisURL because I thinnk I've heard him talk about Vietnam a ziliion times

I'd be interested to know which country in central America you are intending to go to?

Jimmy Garlic

Correct me if i'm wrong but I'd imagine Central America is a fairly dangerous spot for gringos. Vietnam and the rest of South East Asia wouldn't appeal to me at all. Putin is giving away free land in Siberia, I might give him a buzz.

deco nate

A grand a month? You were doing it wrong...they saw you coming!

WarZ

makingmecrazy wrote: »

I'd be interested to know which country in central America you are intending to go to?

Dont really want to give my indentity away

WarZ

deco nate wrote: »

A grand a month? You were doing it wrong...they saw you coming!

Im talking about living in the best apartments, penthouses, eating in the best restaurants etc

Not backpacking.

Atlantic Dawn

WarZ wrote: »

Im talking about living in the best apartments, penthouses, eating in the best restaurants etc

Not backpacking.

Will you not be bored out there on your own after a few months?

Dave0301

WarZ wrote: »

Im talking about living in the best apartments, penthouses, eating in the best restaurants etc

Not backpacking.

Unless you've got a decent job sorted, you won't be doing this.

Antar Bolaeisk

Go for it, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I love visiting the places over there but I don't think I could ever live in them; living is very cheap there but unfortunately life is very cheap there as well.

Cathy.C

Are ya mad? Don Henley's playing the 3 Arena on July 1st.

Charlie19

Go for it!!!

If you're certain that this move will make you happy, then why not..

WarZ

WarZ wrote: »

After years and years of working my ass off in Dublin, hating my job and spending my weekends getting slaughtered drunk for no real good reason I have decided to take a massive step in my life before its too late.

Are they good reasons to go? If you hate your job and the routine of getting hammered, would it not be less drastic to try going for a while without getting hammered? I did, it sounds ridiculous but it changed a huge amount.

You mention a beautiful coast and low crime rates. I live in South Kerry so have the benefit of both.

The one thing you don't mention is a travel bug. Do you actually want to live abroad? 2 friends of mine always talking about leaving, sick of the routine, both single and I suspect that's what's motivating them. Which IMHO is not really a good reason. One is very resilient, intelligent and independent and will succeed anyway, the other will be back within a month when they realise that life doesn't necessarily improve on the basis of location alone.

WarZ

WarZ wrote: »

Anyone else done something similar? Anyone besides mynameisURL because I thinnk I've heard him talk about Vietnam a ziliion times

Ha I'm pretty sure you mean me!

I did similar but not as drastic.. Was on my way to Australia, saw how easy life was here and decided to leave that grind till my 30s or 40s.

A friend moved from here to Guatemala.. She loves it. Can't wait to get over that direction.

Barry Badrinath

WarZ wrote: »

Dont really want to give my indentity away

OMG!!!!!

Are you El Salvador?????

Hi, El Salvador! We knew it was you all along you silly moo!

Atlantic Dawn

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Will you not be bored out there on your own after a few months?

Meet new people?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

If you're gonna jack in your job and your flat, fly to Central America and blow €12k+ just living the high life for the heck of it then you're a mad hoor.

Fair play to you though, wish I had the balls meself. :pac:

the evasion_kid

Going to Vietnam in a few months,its dirt cheap(for now), op Id look into earning some form of passive income,even if it's only €20 euro a day it can be plenty to live on,or become a digital nomad,plenty of sites offering $$$ just for writing an article or blog entry.

shaunr68

Good luck to you. Life is too short to pass up an opportunity like this. I too spent years in a job I hated, getting hammered to make the miserable Monday-Friday existence bearable. Finally they offered me an escape route, a redundancy package which I snapped up.

The missus packed in her job and we went travelling for a year. We soon came to learn that the rat race was not for us and yearned to do a "Good Life" out in the sticks somewhere.

We almost bought a little place in Brittany but that fell through and so we ended up in a cottage in rural Ireland, firmly in the fixer-upper category, with a bit of bramble-infested land leaving with enough left over to buy a rental place in the UK to give us a small monthly income.

With no kids, not smoking and now not drinking either we can manage on a very tight budget, foregoing superficial luxuries. We can't believe how lucky we are not having to work, but in truth have never worked so hard in our lives. Monday morning is the best feeling of all when you realise that all the wage slaves are on their way to work. I pour another coffee, take the dogs for a walk around the woods and fire up the brushcutter!

Fr_Dougal

*looks at time of post*

Suuuure you will, OP...sure you will...

Lavinia

How to comment on this and make any comparison if not knowing which particular country is in question?

Alf Stewart.

My cat calls bullshít on this.

stoplooklisten

Will you be starting a porridge import/export business. It'm told he porridge in that part of the world is delicious.

shaunr68

shaunr68 wrote: »

With no kids, not smoking and now not drinking either we can manage on a very tight budget, foregoing superficial luxuries. We can't believe how lucky we are not having to work, but in truth have never worked so hard in our lives. Monday morning is the best feeling of all when you realise that all the wage slaves are on their way to work. I pour another coffee, take the dogs for a walk around the woods and fire up the brushcutter!

Every Monday? And all week?

Just how much brambles have ye?

Alf Stewart.

stoplooklisten wrote: »

Will you be starting a porridge import/export business. It'm told he porridge in that part of the world is delicious.

Is this a metaphor ?

crazygeryy

Op pm me your address myself the wife and 6 kids will come visit you regularly.

foggy_lad

While it might be easy to live on $1000/month it is not easy to earn that much in third world countries unless you work for some multinational company and those companies would not allow you to live as you described.

Whispered

Life is short and getting out of the rat race is the dream here too. Although we'd rather stay in Ireland. Funnily, you say that having no commitments is spurring you on, we were both pretty happy until our son was born and it really reminds you every day jut how quickly life flies by.

Fair play op. If nothing else it'll be an experience

Cienciano

makingmecrazy wrote: »

I'd be interested to know which country in central America you are intending to go to?

Costa Rica or Panama

Into The Blue

WarZ wrote: »

Dont really want to give my indentity away

To who? I doubt the locals scan boards looking for fresh meat straight off the plane

Cienciano

shaunr68 wrote: »

Good luck to you. Life is too short to pass up an opportunity like this. I too spent years in a job I hated, getting hammered to make the miserable Monday-Friday existence bearable. Finally they offered me an escape route, a redundancy package which I snapped up.

The missus packed in her job and we went travelling for a year. We soon came to learn that the rat race was not for us and yearned to do a "Good Life" out in the sticks somewhere.

We almost bought a little place in Brittany but that fell through and so we ended up in a cottage in rural Ireland, firmly in the fixer-upper category, with a bit of bramble-infested land leaving with enough left over to buy a rental place in the UK to give us a small monthly income.

With no kids, not smoking and now not drinking either we can manage on a very tight budget, foregoing superficial luxuries. We can't believe how lucky we are not having to work, but in truth have never worked so hard in our lives. Monday morning is the best feeling of all when you realise that all the wage slaves are on their way to work. I pour another coffee, take the dogs for a walk around the woods and fire up the brushcutter!

How do you get money to live?

clairewithani

You know what, go for it. If you hate it or it doesn't work out, come back home. Don't be sitting around in 30 years time wishing you had tried it.

Stealthfins

You'll take your problems with you wherever you go.
Sounds to me like you're setting yourself up for a massive drink and grandiose binge.

I've seen it before,people heading off and 3 months 6 months or a year later they have a family member coming over to pull them off the street or out of a **** hole.

Then into a treatment center like Busy Park and recovery from booze and drugs.

Hopefully it'll work out for you and nothing bad happens.

Just mind yourself,this kind of idea crops up in men's head's in their late20's

Been there done that.....

Into The Blue

Cienciano wrote: »

How do you get money to live?

Rents a gaff out in uk

Cienciano

Cienciano wrote: »

How do you get money to live?

Big redundancy, bought 2 places, 1 here, 1 in the UK, lives off rent...easy peasy...I just want to get over the accumulate lots of money first step!

Lavinia

Had a friend who went to "live" in Mexico with his ex gf who was his good friend and lived there for few years. Similar story he heard all the best of it, everything cheap and so on,
He returned 4 months later, said could not live there, could not find a proper job and ya, generally, he missed Ireland..


Another friend and colleague sold everything here and went with his newly wed wife to NZ, said he'd never look back and could not wait for to go... They were both back in less than a year, started a small business here and "lived happily ever after"...

Could be "the grass is greener" syndrome..

clairewithani

clairewithani wrote: »

You know what, go for it. If you hate it or it doesn't work out, come back home. Don't be sitting around in 30 years time wishing you had tried it.

Thought about it...then figured the one time Id be away would be when the local club won the county title, or 5 hen nights would come to town...and I'd be swatting away flies and begging kids and drinking warm beer in a bar with a tin roof...

FalconGirl

We're planning to the same at some point OP. Looking at Costa Rica or Santiago Chile. I feel I need a break for a year or two from this country to put things in perspective. Very bogged down at the minute in the Dublin rat race and the rental market is a load of pants meaning we are house sharing which we hate. Also the sun puts me in far better humor.

Best of luck with it!

clairewithani

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Thought about it...then figured the one time Id be away would be when the local club won the county title, or 5 hen nights would come to town...and I'd be swatting away flies and begging kids and drinking warm beer in a bar with a tin roof...

Ha ha, I get the local club fear. My brother was to go to Oz once but club was in quarter final of county that year so cancelled. They won county final (totally unexpectedly ). He won man of the match in final. He never went.

Sunflower 27

Good for you. Most people being negative are too gutless to do something like this. It sounds wonderful and why not take some time out? I'd do the same if I could afford it at the minute. Not everyone wants to have a new car, the mortgage paid off asap and all that other stuff that is meant to mean we are a success. Go live your life and enjoy it! You should write about your experience as I think it would be an interesting read.

donegaLroad

I did something similar OP, I decided that teaching was not for me... I left my job in the local secondary school for a better job in construction for a couple of years, until I had a few €€ and a visa for Canada.

I was younger and wanted to see a bit of the world... in the real sense, not like just go for a 2 week break etc.

I spent almost a year there which is not long, decided to settle here for now, I am glad I did this to satisfy my curiosity... rather than be sitting in a secondary school wondering how things may have been different had I the courage to take the step and quit. Now my kids have Canadian citizenship as my OH is Canadian.

PowerToWait

clairewithani wrote: »

Ha ha, I get the local club fear. My brother was to go to Oz once but club was in quarter final of county that year so cancelled. They won county final (totally unexpectedly ). He won man of the match in final. He never went.

No disrespect, but getting away from this narrow goal setting would be a major motivator for me.


My job isn't terrible, I enjoy it mostly and conditions are great. Also travel time is 4 minutes. But if any of those factors were to change I would prob head to Spain, Portugal or France.

clairewithani

PowerToWait wrote: »

No disrespect, but getting away from this narrow goal setting would be a major motivator for me.


My job isn't terrible, I enjoy it mostly and conditions are great. Also travel time is 4 minutes. But if any of those factors were to change I would prob head to Spain, Portugal or France.

I know. Just relating how the brother never went. I already said, go for it. If you have regrets let it be for something you did rather than something you wished you had some.

robbiezero

clairewithani wrote: »

I know. Just relating how the brother never went. I already said, go for it. If you have regrets let it be for something you did rather than something you wished you had some.

he was right. In 50 years time, they will be telling his grand kids that he got man of the match in a county final. No one will give a ****e about who went to Australia or where ever.

Sunflower 27

I'm going to retire to Spain. Still a while off yet, but that's the plan. Follow your dreams. Too many people live life with fear.

Cienciano

Deleted User wrote: »

Big redundancy, bought 2 places, 1 here, 1 in the UK, lives off rent...easy peasy...I just want to get over the accumulate lots of money first step!

If you have 2 mortgages paid off it makes it easier alright

wally1990

Bite the bullet and go for it!!!

Don't get anyone hold ya back !!

Best of luck

The Raptor

WarZ wrote: »

After years and years of working my ass off in Dublin, hating my job and spending my weekends getting slaughtered drunk for no real good reason I have decided to take a massive step in my life before its too late.

I am moving to a country in Central America. Why? It's dirt cheap, along a beautiful coast and crime is low. When I was younger I went there before and on just a thousand euros a month including everything I can eat out, live in a fancy place for next nothing.

Before people ask, yes I've been to the place before. I am going to quit my job on Monday, sell the car, sublet the apartment. Take my savings and off I go. Ive no commitments here and u know what? I cant wait.

Anyone else done something similar? Anyone besides mynameisURL because I thinnk I've heard him talk about Vietnam a ziliion times

Before you go, will you consider bringing me?

lawlolawl

Never really saw the attraction of doing this. Once the novelty of living somewhere different wears off after a few months then you'll be just as bored with life except with slightly different scenery to be bored in.

Running away to a different country to escape your problems/tedium is a really **** plan.

Grass is always greener and all that.

irishguitarlad

I feared moving big time but I said **** it I'll move to Spain. I chose Seville and I can honestly say it has been the best year of my life. Going to see Betis play, improving my Spanish, the constant sun, my beautiful Spanish girlfriend, the friends I have made here. España es el mejor país!!!

Never mind all that

Where's the evidence of this wild "only one life" claim!

irishguitarlad

irishguitarlad wrote: »

I feared moving big time but I said **** it I'll move to Spain. I chose Seville and I can honestly say it has been the best year of my life. Going to see Betis play, improving my Spanish, the constant sun, my beautiful Spanish girlfriend, the friends I have made here. España es el mejor país!!!

Seville would be my number 1 spot if the question ever arose. Absolute perfection.

I'm lucky enough to have a job with decent money, option for career break, pension sorted- if the option for the OH taking a year abroad ever came up I'd seriously consider it but at the same time the position I'm in allows for the idle fantasy. It takes a lot of work to get to the place where being lazy is fun......