Thread: When and where would you wish to retire ?

Originally Posted by BLD

Probably live to be 100

% proof? Kilograms? or pounds? BLD?

I'm 88 but that's luckily my weight and IQ combined!!

Retired in Thailand. My next move will be my last and involves travelling up a chimney in a temple in Khon Kaen province. Have you missed me? I said I would be back and here I jolly well am!

Originally Posted by Bob Mason

My next move will be my last and involves travelling up a chimney

Brilliant , masonry to the end

Originally Posted by david44

% proof? Kilograms? or pounds? BLD?

I'm 88 but that's luckily my weight and IQ combined!!

Already hit the 100kg plus mark. I won't divulge the exact weight for fear of being fat shamed by teakdoors skinny kunts. All will be revealed in my next pic Fred starting and finishing in bali via udon thani and vientiane, luang prabang , vang vieng etc. I will do my best to put the bogan back into Balinese culture. If they will allow it? I promise not to be a social influencer , but should that happen by accident i will accept the monetisation of my shenanigans.
Thank you

Originally Posted by david44

Never been,

Shock. A place that rubbajohhny has never been to!

Originally Posted by david44

I'm 88 but that's luckily my weight and IQ combined!!

Fat fuck !



When-now
Where-here

Originally Posted by BLD

Already hit the 100kg plus mark.

Nothing for a tall guy like you.

Originally Posted by helge

Nothing for a tall guy like you.

Exactly
I'm 6.3 so I can sort of get away with it

Originally Posted by BLD

I'm 6.3

Oh

I thought you were tall

My mistake

I’ve already retired and I’m here in Thailand for the long term. I’m about 8 years older than my wife but if for some reason she were to pop her clogs before me … I’d be gone and back to Ohio soon after the dust settled.

Ok. I won't fill you guys full of shit .but my last weigh in was 129kg and that's about 30 kg overweight. Pretty sure the weight gain came from quitting the 3 pack a day smoke habit. Saved my lungs. Gained some tubby but fuck it. I feel good. Can breath normally don't wake up coughing my ring piece up anymore. And in Lao smokes were like $1.00 a packet likewise the beer. In Australia the fuckers want $50 for 1 pack . Thank fuck that's 1 addiction less. Smoking would of sent me broke

Originally Posted by BLD

In Australia the fuckers want $50 for 1 pack

?

Surely not ?

You need a revolution soonest

I am sick and tired of the heat and humidity of SE Asia. Next week I travel to Norway for work, and I know that within two days I will be sick of the cold.

I found a big positive out of Covid... closed borders meant six months straight in Korat with with the wife... before that, at the tine, in 15 years of marriage I had never spent more than 6 weeks with the wife/at home. Regular offshore work rotations had saved me from that chore.

I now have no idea where/when I will retire, but I know it won't be in Korat... after six months straight, been there, done that.

I stil enjoy my work and will keep it going for as long as possoble, even if for just 2 or 3 months a year. One thing I do know, from my and friend's experiences, a happy retirement doesn't just happen, you have to plan it, and have something to retire to. Otherwise you are better off continuiing to work.

We lived in thailand for about 15 years after my early retirement, sometimes with the wifes family in BKK and sometimes at our condo in Hua Hin, and it was fine at first, but for me, boredom slowly set in. i dont do golf, cycling or bars, but i do like to walk.

I like the outdoors and thailands weather is not conducive to a lot of outdoor activity. the heat, humidity and the pollution make the experience unpleasant. but I like the country, the food and the laid back easy going lifestyle, the convenience of everything, and being a foreigner in thailand certainly has more advantages than disadvantages, but we both hankered for a change and so we now spend about half our time in the uk, in yorkshire, and the rest of our time in thailand.

2 trips of 3 months or so and that suits us fine, and for me i avoid all contact with thai immigration offices. i come on a 60 day tourist visa and extend, or a 90 day non immig. visa.

the english weather is no problem for us, i prefer the unpredictability of the uks maritime climate with its changing skyscapes and seasons to the awful 8 months of endless sunshine , the air is good and the food much healthier, and often cheaper too. we couldnt believe the supermarket prices in thailand recently, and when eating out, you can never be really sure of the quality of a lot of the macro/china sourced ingredients. thai politics doesnt bother me any more than the shit-show at the moment in the uk does, although with no debts and 6% interest on savings, long may the shit show continue.

so for the time being its the best of both worlds.

Originally Posted by BLD

… but my last weigh in was 129kg and that's about 30 kg overweight.

I was 141/142 when I moved back here a year ago. Dropped to 129 in 5 months but have been stuck there since.

Think there's a thread for this.

It sure as shit isn't this one.

Thank goodness we have someone to police threads now that Sherrrif Cujo has dropped the ball

So, just how bored are you now?

Hugely, surely.

You'd have to be, to be this tedious.

You'll be back at it in about six hours, eh.

Some merely retry and others retire to be woke at the Crack of Dawn to resume

I am drawing my pension but still haven't retired. When I do, it will simply be a matter of moving into our house in the sticks. I'm not sure if we will even bother moving our stuff over from Germany, may bring a few things and sell the rest before we pack up and leave.

I still like the contrast of two different worlds, they are so different and I find that refreshing.

TBH, I'm quite scared of a life in retirement without working at all.

Haven’t thought that far ahead yet. Working fo another 12-14 years at least. I’d love to spend summers in warm places over the next ten years, as I get two months off in the summer. I may end up working abroad again next year, so who knows where I’ll end up.

I’m just living life year by year for now. Good thing is I can do as I wish as I have no one telling me what to do!

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

I have no one telling me what to do!

Listen thinner child

Sorry the inner child

Enjoy life there are so many threads to unravel

Imagine waking up at 65 realizing you spent one year of your fit best years arguing with random wranglers on Teardork

You may well desire a pension sooner than have to shovel snow or deliver Tim Whoreton's or BuggaKing in your dotage.

I feel AI will replace some classroom jobs but teachers with special needs will alway sbe tresured.

I expect IP lawyers and Seal Clubbers cannot be replaced by machines.

You could also adopt a poor third world expat to care for a down on his luck dentist or one of the dentally Andy Capped at least.
Also some of the toothles she has pulled off in Wrongmat.

These poor gummies would love a well blended Canadian consomme a veloute of virtue a broth of breath.

Anyway look forward to broth all photos.Ooh knows they may be selected for Chitty's pulled pork Yuletide pop up cook book.

Many nourishig soups can be part of a controlled diet by subtle use of smaller buckets, bowls and my patented dribbel spoon, small hole drilled to allow ticknology to overcome nappytite

Originally Posted by cyrille

So, just how bored are you now?

Hugely, surely.

You'd have to be, to be this tedious.

You'll be back at it in about six hours, eh.

The good news is you don’t need to wait six hours, the rugby’s on tonight.