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CAPP0
Original Poster
5,858 posts
72 months
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A scenario for you, and a decision to make.
You're 50-ish, but you have a significantly younger outlook than your birth certificate indicates. Your relationship history is chequered, at best. You're in a fairly well-paid job, but it's not a job that you love or would seek to replicate elsewhere. You have family, but if you're honest, you're not particularly close to them. You have a pile of goods and chattels, but you realise that sentimentality is the bringer of clutter. You have plenty of friends, but when it comes right down to the wire, how many of them would actually go the extra mile for you? You were born and bred in the UK, but you have a real love/hate relationship with GB today, although you're not stupid enough to think that the grass is necessarily greener elsewhere.
You could liquidate something like £150k reasonably easily. You've paid, and overpaid, into pensions all your working life, which will pay out at retirement, but you won't be living the life of Riley on the proceeds (at least, not if you stay where you are).
So you decide you want out. Permanently. One way ticket. No looking back over your shoulder.
Where would you go? How would you get there? And then what would you do?
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durbster
3,051 posts
91 months
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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 
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el stovey
13,497 posts
132 months
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Congratulations, you're having a late mid life crisis/enlightenment. Buy a motorbike or sports car get some new clothes and get a much younger girlfriend.
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jingars
291 posts
109 months
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CAPP0 said: Permanently. One way ticket. No looking back over your shoulder. Like all the ex-pats that come back to take advantage of the NHS as soon as their health fails?
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el stovey
13,497 posts
132 months
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jingars said: CAPP0 said: Permanently. One way ticket. No looking back over your shoulder. Like all the ex-pats that come back to take advantage of the NHS as soon as their health fails? 
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The Beaver King
3,552 posts
64 months
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Sell everything, chuck all the money into one account, pack a rucksack with clothes and essentials, take your phone, passport and bank card, book a ferry to France and then just make your way across the world until you find somewhere you love and set up sticks. I'd be looking at somewhere out in the sticks, maybe India or Jamaica. Build yourself a little house and just do small jobs to tide you over...
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S10 GTA
2,521 posts
36 months
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A move to the French Alps for me, set up a chalet.
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CAPP0
Original Poster
5,858 posts
72 months
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el stovey said: Congratulations, you're having a late mid life crisis/enlightenment. Buy a motorbike or sports car get some new clothes and get a much younger girlfriend. Those boxes were all ticked many years ago. Hence seeking a different approach. Last time around I said to myself that this would be the way forward if it came to it. I'm not quite there yet, but things are getting tenuous.
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Jasandjules
45,458 posts
98 months
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For a while I'd go diving around Micronesia I think.
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Get Karter
1,644 posts
70 months
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Depends on what languages you can speak fluently.
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road hog
2,113 posts
82 months
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Gruber
4,128 posts
83 months
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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.
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stewy68
1,626 posts
112 months
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The Beaver King said: Sell everything, chuck all the money into one account, pack a rucksack with clothes and essentials, take your phone, passport and bank card, book a ferry to France and then just make your way across the world until you find somewhere you love and set up sticks. I'd be looking at somewhere out in the sticks, maybe India or Jamaica. Build yourself a little house and just do small jobs to tide you over... Ooh yes! Maybe not Jamaica, but top idea.
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blindswelledrat
18,974 posts
101 months
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CAPP0 said: A You have plenty of friends, but when it comes right down to the wire, how many of them would actually go the extra mile for you?
you won't be living the life of Riley on the proceeds (at least, not if you stay where you are).
So you decide you want out. Permanently. One way ticket. No looking back over your shoulder.
Where would you go? ? I would go to cliche land I think in that exact circumstance.
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Tyre Smoke
9,207 posts
130 months
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Caribbean. Laze about on the beach all day/bars/help out on pleasure trips for tourists.
Live a simple inexpensive life for a while and enjoy.
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The Beaver King
3,552 posts
64 months
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stewy68 said: The Beaver King said: Sell everything, chuck all the money into one account, pack a rucksack with clothes and essentials, take your phone, passport and bank card, book a ferry to France and then just make your way across the world until you find somewhere you love and set up sticks. I'd be looking at somewhere out in the sticks, maybe India or Jamaica. Build yourself a little house and just do small jobs to tide you over... Ooh yes! Maybe not Jamaica, but top idea. It's a nice dream, but I don't think I'd have the balls to do it. Maybe one day, when I'm as depressed about life as the OP...
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MiseryStreak
758 posts
76 months
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CAPP0 said: Where would you go? How would you get there? And then what would you do? Everywhere. Anyhow. Everything. What a position to be in, if you're still on this stupid forum and not on a plane tomorrow, I'll kill you.
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Sheets Tabuer
12,144 posts
84 months
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I plan on selling everything I own when I'm 60. Then I'll buy a campervan and drive around europe until the money runs out.
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Paddy_N_Murphy
15,160 posts
53 months
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 ClickSee ya, and follow the winds. Fish for your supper, and so on.... All this Campervan nonsense - Fuel costs you. Wind doesn't ETA - Better Still: Like a Pirate....
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Tyre Smoke
9,207 posts
130 months
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Sheets Tabuer said: I plan on selling everything I own when I'm 60. Then I'll buy a campervan and drive around europe until the money runs out. Depends when you turn sixty, but I reckon Europe isn't too far off running out of money.
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