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    Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?

    We need a thread 'Expats That Succeed'
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    Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?

    Quote Originally Posted by questner View Post
    We need a thread 'Expats That Succeed'
    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



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    Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed

    Pension
    no pension
    Pension
    Pension



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    Quote Originally Posted by Hunter View Post
    Pension
    no pension
    Pension
    Pension

    But one with no pension has a great job in country.


    See a trend here?


    None are under 35 either.

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    Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed

    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 - Expats That Succeed

    Add dmv
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    Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmydr View Post
    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

    I think years at being an ex-pats counts. Can a being an ex-pat for 2 years count as a success story?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigLongBeach View Post
    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.
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    Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed

    Quote Originally Posted by BigLongBeach View Post
    Add dmv
    We each can make a long list.

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    Re: 10/2016 - Do Expat Mongers Settle Down ... or just slow down?

    Quote Originally Posted by rahsta View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yayow View Post
    some are independently wealthy. Lots of ways to make it work.
    That works well

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    Quote Originally Posted by rahsta View Post
    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!

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    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.

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    Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed

    Quote Originally Posted by questner View Post
    We need a thread 'Expats That Succeed'
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Westy View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Westy View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Westy View Post
    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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    Re: 10/2016 - Expats That Succeed

    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Westy View Post
    To go on ... what constitutes success, for an expat?

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Westy View Post
    And do we take off points for living downrange, but spending a lot of time bitching about it?
    What would downrange be?

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