You only get one life..

Stealthfins · 15-05-2016 10:52AM

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 · 15-05-2016 10:53AM

Cienciano wrote: »

How do you get money to live?

Rents a gaff out in uk

15-05-2016 10:54AM

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 · 15-05-2016 10:54AM

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..

15-05-2016 10:56AM

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 · 15-05-2016 11:09AM

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 · 15-05-2016 11:13AM

[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 · 15-05-2016 11:28AM

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 · 15-05-2016 11:36AM

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 · 15-05-2016 11:38AM

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 · 15-05-2016 11:44AM

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 · 15-05-2016 11:46AM

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 · 15-05-2016 11:46AM

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 · 15-05-2016 11:47AM

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 · 15-05-2016 11:49AM

Bite the bullet and go for it!!!

Don't get anyone hold ya back !!

Best of luck

The Raptor · 15-05-2016 11:52AM

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 · 15-05-2016 12:10PM

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 · 15-05-2016 12:19PM

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!!!

15-05-2016 12:21PM

Never mind all that

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

15-05-2016 12:24PM

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......

shaunr68 · 15-05-2016 12:28PM

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!

Sorry I didn't want that to have come across at all smug, redundancy wasn't that generous but was enough for us to spend a year travelling on a budget and re-evaluate what was important to us. We'd just finished paying off the mortgage on a modest semi in the North of England after working for 30 years. Selling the house enabled us to buy a smaller place over there for rental and a fixer-upper here. My point really was that it can be possible to live on a shoestring if you forego luxuries, we manage on 650 Euros a month mostly food, leccy, internet and a bit of diesel. No kids, no booze, fags, eating out, takeaways etc but it's a price worth paying, to us anyway.

Eugene Norman · 15-05-2016 12:33PM

I've lived abroad more than once but not off the grid. Had I the money I wouldnt do it because of personal ties here, but it's something I am considering for retirement.

15-05-2016 12:34PM

shaunr68 wrote: »

Sorry I didn't want that to have come across at all smug, redundancy wasn't that generous but was enough for us to spend a year travelling on a budget and re-evaluate what was important to us. We'd just finished paying off the mortgage on a modest semi in the North of England after working for 30 years. Selling the house enabled us to buy a smaller place over there for rental and a fixer-upper here. My point really was that it can be possible to live on a shoestring if you forego luxuries, we manage on 650 Euros a month mostly food, leccy, internet and a bit of diesel. No kids, no booze, fags, eating out, takeaways etc but it's a price worth paying, to us anyway.

Fair play to you imo. Yeah not everyone is in that position but you hardly won the lottery or anything, you made your own luck.

Re the budget, I sit down every now and again (under duress mostly) and work out what I *need* to live and its a pittance, genuinely a fraction of my income. It's the discipline involved in doing so that's a rare skill.

idnkph · 15-05-2016 12:36PM

There seems to be a lot of begrudgers on this thread. You've got balls. Go for it. Hope it all works out for you. Don't take the negativity from others it's just jealousy talking.

15-05-2016 12:42PM

idnkph wrote: »

There seems to be a lot of begrudgers on this thread. You've got balls. Go for it. Hope it all works out for you. Don't take the negativity from others it's just jealousy talking.

Begrudgery isn't really a word that applies to fantasies imo.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-05-2016 12:47PM

Do they have the interwebs in Latin America ?

Joe prim · 15-05-2016 12:55PM

robbiezero wrote: »

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.

Wrong, in fifty years time they'll be telling his grandkids he was a great player, but not half the player Paddy `Bán' McGeoughran , who fecked off to Australia, could have been, might have made the County team etc etc.....:)

Shint0 · 15-05-2016 01:36PM

lawlolawl wrote: »

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.

Is it not better to be bored somewhere with good weather on the coast where OP is going as compared to somewhere flat, dreary and dull if you're to go by the 'the most depressing town' thread here which would be most of Ireland. I don't think the OP is necessarily doing it to escape their problems. They just want a different life. Nothing wrong with that. I hope to do the same most likely somewhere in Spain if everything works out. Different strokes for different folks.

the evasion_kid · 15-05-2016 01:51PM

Shint0 wrote: »

Is it not better to be bored somewhere with good weather on the coast where OP is going as compared to somewhere flat, dreary and dull if you're to go by the 'the most depressing town' thread here which would be most of Ireland. I don't think the OP is necessarily doing it to escape their problems. They just want a different life. Nothing wrong with that. I hope to do the same most likely somewhere in Spain if everything works out. Different strokes for different folks.

Give me palm trees,sun and exotic women anyday over the monotony of here

realdanbreen · 15-05-2016 01:58PM

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

Don't think the country that you live in determines how you live your life. Will you not miss family, friends, sport, whatever?

You only get one life..

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