We need a thread 'Expats That Succeed'
We need a thread 'Expats That Succeed'
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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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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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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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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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