Where would you semi-retire? (slightly OT)

[CostaRicaBill]

Costa Rican's are some of the friendliest people that I've ever met. The women are beautiful and the men are not known to be the most attractive, which is a great combination for me and PapaSan [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]. The temperature is great all year round but during the rainy season it will rain hard for a couple of hours in the afternoon, but never in the morning or at night.

Right now I'm working at a Spanish language immersion school, and yes, make like $4 an hour which is actually not horrible here. A lot of the online sportsbooks are located here and pay around $5 an hour which is considered a really good wage. Construction workers can make as little as $1 an hour. I took the job to learn Spanish, but now I'm pretty fluent and am making more in reload bonuses alone every month than my real "salary." But that's another story.

There is only one cardroom here which usually spreads 2/4 holdem and omaha, 5-10-15 holdem, no limit, and has lots of tournies.

[TTMAN]

Is it easy to live there? Do you need a Visa or do you have to become a citizen? Or can you just go and rent a home and no one cares?

[playerfl]

broadband cellular is starting to hit the market and in 10 yrs thats all you will need. Cable modem or higher speed wherever your cell phone works. Plug the cell into the laptop and you are set.

[highlife]

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Nomar gonna bring you a World Series before you retire? As long as we are fantasizing here, how about watching Nomar play all seven World Series games between Fenway and Wrigley? Oh to dream......

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since when is nomar capable of bringing any team a world series? and no i'm not a yankee fan, i hate them. i'm just being realistic here. if anyone is going to bring the cubs a WS it will be that incredible starting pitching corps (when healthy)

[Adde]

Hey cubs!

In january this year I was thinking about something similar, going away for some month/s, heading for warmer climate, reasonably cheap living and better time zone (online poker prime time is in the middle of the night here in Sweden).

I was looking for an internet connected apartment that like 3-4 people could share for some time. Carebban, Costa Rica, Buenos Aires, Spain, Thailand. Found some interesting objects, but other things came in between and nothing happened.

I'm an old man, muuuuch older than you (33), so maybe I should skip the "semi" in "semi-retire". [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Cheers,

Adde

[tripdad]

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I was thinking the same thing! I have a 7 month old daughter and would love to show her the country from a mobile home before she starts school. What better way to finance the trip than to play poker all over the country.

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i barely remember anything before Kindergarten. you may just be wasting fuel here. you may want to consider a long summer vacation when she's 7 or 8. also, a motorhome will work much better than a mobile home [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img].

cheers!

[Cubswin]

Adde

I remember your post about this subject. I am still entertaining the idea of doing a pre-retirement living abroad trip before the semi-retirement but i think for the time being i need to settle down and start plunking some money into some property rather then keep paying rent. Rent is defintely an -EV play.

I think Buenos Aires is defintely the best of those options because their economy is in a pinch at the moment so things are much cheaper there now then the have been in the past 20 or so years. Nice two bedroom apartments with weekly maid service and high speed internet included can be found for less then $600 and the women... well you can imagine. Another place i have considered is the philippines. I have a friend who lives in Angeles City there and it sounds like a load of fun with all the go-go bars and expat community. A 3 bedroom house in a gated community there costs less then $300 and beers are 50 cents. High-speed is also available there at a reasonable cost. Oh....and if its your sort of thing the gals cost $20 for the whole night.

If you ever get the urge to live abroad again be sure to look me up because i might be up for it....assuming im not wrapped up in something else at the moment. It would be hard to coordinate but definitely worth it if it ever did happen. Glad to see you poke your head in here again [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

regards
cubs

[Cubswin]

As you can imagine I am quite excited about Nomar. Never in my lifetime have the cubs had a good shortstop so this is a first. On paper this team is the best the cubs have had since 1984....and i think that they are even better then the 84 team. The injuries have been a real bugger but if they can manage to stay healthy and win the wild card i really like their chances. Pitching is the key to the playoffs and the cubs have plenty of it. Come playoff time they will likely go to a 4 man rotation so they will have one of their ace staters on call in the bull pen. I really like the chances of this team IF they can manage to stay healthy from here on out.

cubs

[flophitter]

I find I get itchy feet after a year in any one place. Now that my salaried job is all net-based I have a fantasy to travel around in a mobile home or car with caravan (trailer), doing my ebay and online poker, too. Is it feasible to use satellite internet successfully from a vehicle? - stationary obviously [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]) Is there a provider which covers big chunks of the world so I wouldn´t need to keep changing? Like this thread btw [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img])

[Baulucky]

My plan is to buy a small house in Bonaire (one of the smallest of the Dutch Antilles). Top snokelling, windsurfing spot. Off the beaten path. Extremely good communications/internet, etc.

4-6 months in Italy and a few weeks in the US round off the balance not to get "Island-Sickness".

Oh, did I mention pay tax nowhere?.