>>60475674>leave everything behind to live in ThailandThis was my plan, go to Thailand and enjoy early retirement but the more I thought about it, the more it feels risky as a long term solution.
If the dollar advantage ever goes away, or if my money ever ran out I'd have to come back and I would have a harder time earning an income with a worse job market and a huge gap in my resume without the advantage of compounding investments.
Also means I'd never own a home, and probably not get a white gf, and living around loud motorcycles, and non-english speakers indefinitely.
That's not even getting into the lack of an easy visa to stay long term at a reasonable price. Even the cheapest elite visa is still $500/mo if you average it over 5 years, which removes a ton of the cost of living advantage.
Maybe it would be worth doing for a decade or two, enjoying my free time and my youth, yolo and all that, nobody is guaranteed a future of living to 80+ years old, but shit it fees prudent to invest enough to retire in my country before I did this so I could at least retire if the cost of living advantage disappeared, what's another 5-10 years waging?