|
Yachtworker
756 posts
24 months
|
When I read the title I thought, Dinitas clinic was the answer! Now I have read a few posts I would say keep a base in the UK that you can lock and leave, learn to sail, buy a Moody 62DS (which is a bit like a waterborne apartment) kit it for long range and use it for 3 months at a pop all around the world, flying back when the craving for a proper Full English becomes all consuming. Be aware the UK looks a million times better when you have moved to another country, Italy for example is an odd place to live. 
|
|
|
Paddy_N_Murphy
15,140 posts
53 months
|
Yachtworker said: buy a Moody 62DS  For 150k ? I'll take 5.
|
|
|
Don1
8,977 posts
77 months
|
el stovey said: Thailand is full of white blokes with dreadlocks and loads of jewellery sitting there like guru swanni preaching to backpackers about being dive instructors or buying a hotel or something. It's all great in your twenties but after a bit you're f  ked as you have no money no healthcare and no property in the UK. True, but these are ladies, working in vets and healthcare.
|
|
|
pilchardthecat
5,916 posts
48 months
|
durbster said: I'd sell up, fly to Australia, buy a 4x4 and a caravan and drive round until I got fed up. Or alternatively, buy a 4x4 camper in the UK and drive it to Australia, then continue as above  did that. Realised in about 3 weeks that Australia is a total cultural vacuum and is full of bigots who hate the english. Lasted a couple of months.
|
|
|
Paddy_N_Murphy
15,140 posts
53 months
|
pilchardthecat said: durbster said: I'd sell up, fly to Australia, buy a 4x4 and a caravan and drive round until I got fed up. Or alternatively, buy a 4x4 camper in the UK and drive it to Australia, then continue as above did that. Realised in about 3 weeks that Australia is a total cultural vacuum and is full of bigots who hate the english. Lasted a couple of months. Not to mention extraordinarily f king expensive with respect to the UK £
|
Advertisement
|
|
|
magooagain
612 posts
39 months
|
Pvapour said: rural france, empty wide open roads, tranquility away from the masses, buy a run down farm outright, renovate, grow vegies, keep some animals, become self sufficient. I know its got French people but you cant have everything Oi you !! you cant do that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
|
|
maser_spyder
5,602 posts
51 months
|
pilchardthecat said: durbster said: I'd sell up, fly to Australia, buy a 4x4 and a caravan and drive round until I got fed up. Or alternatively, buy a 4x4 camper in the UK and drive it to Australia, then continue as above did that. Realised in about 3 weeks that Australia is a total cultural vacuum and is full of bigots who hate the english. Lasted a couple of months. That's how I felt about the place as well. Great if you're in to socialising and sport, but any kind of legitimate culture was totally absent. Found the people very unfriendly too, and crikey, do they whinge.... I spend a lot of time in HK / China, and although I wouldn't want to permanently live there, it's stuffed full of culture and incredibly nice people. Makes 'developed' Australia look awful.
|
|
|
Waspy1
2,157 posts
45 months
|
I'm just grateful I have a job, a house, a car, have access to the NHS and live in the UK.
Seems to be what a lot of people in the world dream of, and I have all that without really trying.
Yeah sure, blow your stash on a boat in Thailand or whatever.
Good luck.
|
|
|
Justin Cyder
6,108 posts
18 months
|
Buy a late splitty enhanced with a subaru lunp,insulation & an Eberspacher. Then buy a new paraglider & all the bits, p s off to France & go flying, snowboarding, wind surfing, bike riding, boating, via ferrata, climbing, all the stuff I loved in my twenties, only turned down to six. Ok, seven.
|
|
|
thesyn
388 posts
50 months
|
OK OP what's the real problem?
|
|
|
iiyama
1,614 posts
70 months
|
I dont get people's hang up with the NHS? For example the health service in France is much better then in the UK and like here is free at source, (although again like here is paid for through taxes. UNLIKE here though the tax that is taken is shown to go into their health service.)
Anyway back on topic, good luck OP!
|
|
|
v15ben
10,613 posts
110 months
|
I suppose I did this a couple of years ago, sell up and move to teach English in Korea. Great fun, but now I'm off travelling again before getting back onto the treadmill for a while in the USA. My dream, sell it all an never look back trip would involve a cheap but reliable motorbike, a small backpack with a few clothes and my camera then riding off into the sunset. No set plan, no set itinerary, just do it somewhere cheap, meet people, volunteer and live cheaply. Maybe one day 
|
|
|
ARH
1,078 posts
108 months
|
Gruber said: I'd move to the Peak District (admittedly, not a different country, but compared to London it might as well be), buy a small house near a village pub, get a labrador and a Land Rover Defender and live out my days walking, pootling and fixing things. For me too, not the peak district but north Shropshire. Trying to make the move now. Got made redundant, have no mortgage, partner runs her own business from home. I am just about to exchange contracts on a new house, I will spend the next year refurnishing it. I have the landrover. When I am done I wont need to earn a lot so I will try to make ends meet fixing things for any one who will pay. It's scarey to say the least. I have lived in North Hampshire all my life. Always worked since I was 14 years old. and only ever had 2 weeks in a row off work at any one time. I have now not worked since beginning of March this year, and you would not recognise me now, the stress has gone, I feel so much better already and that is with the added stress of moving house.
|
|
|
redtwin
5,848 posts
51 months
|
Yachtworker said: When I read the title I thought, Dignitas clinic was the answer! Damn, beat me to it. I was scanning though the thread, chuckling at all the dreamers who got it wrong, looking to see if anyone else had the same idea. For those of you suggesting settling in a far flung third world country I can only imagine you have never lived in one and may have only visited for a fortnight and stayed in a 4 or 5 star beachfront all inclusive.  I was born and raised in one of these Carribean island paradises. I don't like going back for even a week to visit family I still have there. I miss the convenience and creature comforts I have gotten accustomed to, too much. The facilities/amenities are 10X better now than they were 30 years ago, but they don't come cheap. £150K would get blown through in no time at all, doubt it would last till you got to pension age and it would be doubtful that a state pension would cover living expenses unless you owned a house/flat outright. Don't even think about living within sniffing distance of the sea.
|
|
|
bint
4,232 posts
93 months
|
I too am amused about the comments on our NHS. My parents cut ties and moved to Spain 6 years ago and the health care and attention they receive there (free) is faster and better than anything they experienced here.
The difficulty they have is more with same level of quality hearing aids for my dad, and my Mother whines that she can't buy stuff for the house/clothes to the same quality.
Other than that, quality of life is very good, cheap (although pension in GBP and EUR conversion means they get a bit of a hit) and they have all mod cons even if they are in the middle of nowhere.
Issue is now, with grandchild on the way, they have decided to come back, and with no property here, and me estimating 3 years before they sell, it's going to be tough. Cost of living, house prices etc over here makes me think they will regret coming back, or at least severing all ties previously.
|
|
|
WeirdNeville
4,137 posts
84 months
|
You see lots of people the OP describes in places like Bangkok and Cambodia. THey look to be having ALL THE FUN.....
|
|
|
Butter Face
5,702 posts
29 months
|
Didn't realise someone beat me to the Dignitas comment 
|
|
|
durbster
3,039 posts
91 months
|
pilchardthecat said: durbster said: I'd sell up, fly to Australia, buy a 4x4 and a caravan and drive round until I got fed up. Or alternatively, buy a 4x4 camper in the UK and drive it to Australia, then continue as above did that. Realised in about 3 weeks that Australia is a total cultural vacuum and is full of bigots who hate the english. Lasted a couple of months. Fair enough but there are bigots everywhere so that's a bit of a strange reason to dislike a place. Also, it's a young country so you can't possibly go there and expect it to compete with the 2,000 year old soap opera of European history. Once you get away from the tourist areas Australia is fascinating and because it's designed for travel, you can just keep moving without needing to plan anything. It doesn't have to be that expensive either; other than fuel and food you can camp your way round for peanuts. Having said that, I think the yacht option is the best one. Or as a compromise, a barge
|
|
|
V8Triumph
5,961 posts
84 months
|
ARH said: Gruber said: I'd move to the Peak District (admittedly, not a different country, but compared to London it might as well be), buy a small house near a village pub, get a labrador and a Land Rover Defender and live out my days walking, pootling and fixing things. For me too, not the peak district but north Shropshire. Trying to make the move now. Got made redundant, have no mortgage, partner runs her own business from home. I am just about to exchange contracts on a new house, I will spend the next year refurnishing it. I have the landrover. When I am done I wont need to earn a lot so I will try to make ends meet fixing things for any one who will pay. It's scarey to say the least. I have lived in North Hampshire all my life. Always worked since I was 14 years old. and only ever had 2 weeks in a row off work at any one time. I have now not worked since beginning of March this year, and you would not recognise me now, the stress has gone, I feel so much better already and that is with the added stress of moving house. hehehe I actually love the peak district suggestion I live in the peaks and spend my days doing whatever I like and fixing my old cars. I love my life but am only in my twenties! Earn enough cash to pay for my house etc. and would not thank anyone for a 9-5 no matter what it paid. As for what I'd do with the OP's situation - I'd do the Peking to Paris run in a vintage (read pre-war) Bentley  then get home to do the Club Triumph Reliability trial thing around the UK in my GT6. Then I'd sell the Bentley and do a round Europe trip in a (real) '70's Aston Martin V8 Coupe. Later when I got back I'd go racing with the MGCC! We can all dream, eh?
|
|
|
King Herald
18,339 posts
85 months
|
Waspy1 said: Seems to be what a lot of people in the world dream of, and I have all that without really trying. It does seem ironic that the sort of thing 50% of the worlds populace dreams of is the thing most UK residents dream of leaving behind.
|
|
