Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?
We need a thread 'Expats That Succeed' :luck:
Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?
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Originally Posted by
questner
We need a thread 'Expats That Succeed' :luck:
What fun is that?
Yayow has succeeded!
Happy has succeeded!!
Cam has succeeded!!!!
Blue Devil has Succeeded!!!
That is just 4 that come to mind and I know I missed at least another 4 others.
This is kind of boring as a topic:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed
Pension
no pension
Pension
Pension
:p
Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed
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Originally Posted by
Hunter
Pension
no pension
Pension
Pension
:p
But one with no pension has a great job in country.
See a trend here?
None are under 35 either.
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Its amazing when people say it takes balls to get up, go to a place like Sosua and try at your fantasy.
I love get paid lots of money.
many have looked and saw that they can't make any money in these places but they will work 70 hours a week and at the end, be burned out.
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Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?
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Originally Posted by
Jimmydr
What fun is that?
Yayow has succeeded!
Happy has succeeded!!
Cam has succeeded!!!!
Blue Devil has Succeeded!!!
That is just 4 that come to mind and I know I missed at least another 4 others.
This is kind of boring as a topic:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
I think years at being an ex-pats counts. Can a being an ex-pat for 2 years count as a success story?
Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed
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Originally Posted by
BigLongBeach
Add dmv
For sure, DMV is a great example.
There are many that we could add up in Sosua and Cabarete as well, too many to list. Many never been " mongers" as what we know that term to mean. Many of the guys that we hang with on the Conde, or in the boathouse for example. Many of the Italians or Canadians I see everyday in Boca Chica, multiply that with the thousands of ex-pats that populate the capital. Most do it their own way, some work, some live on retirement funds or pensions, some are independently wealthy. Lots of ways to make it work.
Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed
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Originally Posted by
BigLongBeach
Add dmv
We each can make a long list.
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Originally Posted by
rahsta
I think years at being an ex-pats counts. Can a being an ex-pat for 2 years count as a success story?
If you want it to, it can.:bigthumbup::bigthumbup:
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Originally Posted by
yayow
some are independently wealthy. Lots of ways to make it work.
That works well
Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?
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Originally Posted by
rahsta
I think years at being an ex-pats counts. Can a being an ex-pat for 2 years count as a success story?
EXCELLENT point as I cannot compare to Yayow!
Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?
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camaro1257
EXCELLENT point as I cannot compare to Yayow!
He found his place and one day, you will as well. The search is part of the adventure.
Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed
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Originally Posted by
questner
We need a thread 'Expats That Succeed' :luck:
And now we have one ... Thanks, Jimmy!
That said ... how do we define "expats that succeed?"
Will we limit our discussion to people working in the local economy, making a success of their business? (Mr Happy, for example, and the hotelier formerly known as Ohmmm.)
Will we include people who live expat on their pensions, or their retirement funds? (Yayow, Camaro, Blue Devil, and how many others?)
Are we going to limit the discussion to the "sexpat" mongers of ISOC, and maybe other like-minded boards, or will we also discuss the International Living expats who don't monger, or for whom mongering is just an incidental side-issue?
And how about part-timers, like SeaWeed, or "once-upon-a-timers," who lived it and then moved home, which seems to be what Rahsta is talking about?
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Originally Posted by
Westy
And now we have one ... Thanks, Jimmy!
That said ... how do we define "expats that succeed?"
Will we limit our discussion to people working in the local economy, making a success of their business? (Mr Happy, for example, and the hotelier formerly known as Ohmmm.)
Will we include people who live expat on their pensions, or their retirement funds? (Yayow, Camaro, Blue Devil, and how many others?)
I for one have no plans of working or owning a business in any country.
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Originally Posted by
Westy
Are we going to limit the discussion to the "sexpat" mongers of ISOC, and maybe other like-minded boards, or will we also discuss the International Living expats who don't monger, or for whom mongering is just an incidental side-issue?
You mean there are guys that spent no money on any chicas while in country?
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Originally Posted by
Westy
Will we include people who live expat on their pensions, or their retirement funds? (Yayow, Camaro, Blue Devil, and how many others?)
They are the most successful of all of them.
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To go on ... what constitutes success, for an expat?
Again, we know a few who set up in business in their new land, and made a very good go of it. I've already named a couple; we have others, right here on the board. There are also those who set up a successful business, ran it for years, then sold it off and actually retired ... and are still living downrange, and enjoying their life. Very cool, indeed!
How about the retiree, the pensioner, who moves offshore for the sake of having a better life on their retirement income? What rates our "success" label better -- the guys who "go native" and assimilate more-or-less into the local culture, or the ones who trade up from a trailer-park in Florida to a nice house in a gated community in "the Islands," or Mexico, Central America, South America, the Philippines, Thailand...?
And do we take off points for living downrange, but spending a lot of time bitching about it? :rofl:
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Originally Posted by
Westy
To go on ... what constitutes success, for an expat?
:rofl:
When an Ex Pat goes online to get money for an operation or a plane ticket home, he is not a winner.
When an Ex Pat owes everyone money, not a winner.
Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed
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Originally Posted by
Westy
And do we take off points for living downrange, but spending a lot of time bitching about it? :rofl:
What would downrange be?