Quit everything , and start again over 50?

harz99

baxterjohn wrote: »

Were you put on this earth to suffer this lifestyle?
Used carefully you have enough profit in your property to keep you going for years. Try a working visa in Australia or better still New Zealand and see what you have been missing. If you can earn a bob or two to supplement your savings you will do fine - it does not even have to be full time work a bob or two from part time work will protect your savings for years.
What are you waiting for?

Go away please!


To get a work visa in either country, you either have to have specific skills from a short list or already have a job offer (sponsorship) as I'm sure you well know, or at least you should do if you are giving that advice.


With the greatest of respect to AC, given his current employment and earnings level, he is unlikely to qualify on the first point, neither does he have a job lined up overseas as far as we know.


Sheesh, where is this rash of sudden unhelpful advice coming from?

lessonlearned

The Torture sessions are definitely working and we are only 30 per cent through yet. I was telling her last night that I was beginning to feel a difference. She said I'll have you skipping around like a spring lamb by the time we are done and you'll be shinnjng up ladders doing your own decorating again......

Well I'll pass on the shinning but the skipping sounds good.

What I really really want (tell me what you want what you really really want) is to be able to learn the Argentine Tango :rotfl: but you need to be bloody fit for that.

I might even be able "skip the light fandango and do cartwheels across the floor" :rotfl:

Why do I always talk in song lyrics when I post on here......:rotfl:

lessonlearned

Lol. Harz you are a card......

Love the way you just came out with it. :rotfl:

Smodlet

Yeah, I'm with harz... again. I think, (imho ) that any one of the sixteen vestal virgins would make more sense than the rain of randomness this thread seems to be attracting at the mo. I am sensing a bit of a theme, (for a change...) "This is what just came into my head/worked for me so it must be handed down on stone tablets".

I loathe that parochial mindset that says, "if it has not happened to me, it does not happen and, conversely, if it has, it happens to/works for everyone." No, it bloody well does not!

I'm am now going to look on RM for a property with a marble staircase plain... Pandora's Box is a better song, imho, LL :cool:

Continuing the random theme...

wendym

Hello again everyone. I haven't been concentrating while I have been arguing with a tooth that waits until I am not at my best then jumps out at me. It's complicated by a weebly dentist and not being able to have risky stuff cos of the scary anti-coagulant I am stuck with.

Anyway.......years ago I lived in London, before it got quite so up itself. More recently a daughter lived in Richmond, and I was taken aback by the look I got from a chap who held a gate open. I said Good Morning and smiled. He looked at me as if I had dog poo on my shoes.

Do take LL's advice and strike up a conversation in a pub or shop in Poole. I'm willing to bet you won't be glared at.

And ignore the random nonsense that has started creeping in here. Up to now it has been a thread by and for friendly human beings.

Smodlet

Yes, wendym! I had forgotten the whole chatting to people in pubs, local shops, and the like part of research. It is a spectacular idea. After all, the local yokels have no axe to grind, they are not trying to sell you anything... of course, they could decide to cultivate you, just to feed you to the local werewolves to spare one of their own, but you are not an American moving to rural Yorkshire, are you, AC? If we are going to have randomness, I suggest we dictate its form :rotfl: Is there a full moon tomorrow?

wendym

My Thanks button is back!

Even in Poole, probably wise to avoid any pubs called The Slaughtered Lamb.

harz99

wendym wrote: »

Hello again everyone. I haven't been concentrating while I have been arguing with a tooth that waits until I am not at my best then jumps out at me. It's complicated by a weebly dentist and not being able to have risky stuff cos of the scary anti-coagulant I am stuck with.

Anyway.......years ago I lived in London, before it got quite so up itself. More recently a daughter lived in Richmond, and I was taken aback by the look I got from a chap who held a gate open. I said Good Morning and smiled. He looked at me as if I had dog poo on my shoes.

Do take LL's advice and strike up a conversation in a pub or shop in Poole. I'm willing to bet you won't be glared at.

And ignore the random nonsense that has started creeping in here. Up to now it has been a thread by and for friendly human beings.

I'll second that if you have time. The Bermuda Triangle in Parr St, Lower Parkstone is a good un (if the name doesn't give concern).


For more pub inspiration try these links:


http://www.eastdorsetcamra.org.uk/


https://whatpub.com/search?q=poole+%28dorset%29&lat=50.7167&lng=-2&r=10&t=t&features=Pub%2COpen%2CRealAle&p=1


Not that I'm a boozer you understand, but I used to house sit for my daughter while she was on holiday (dogs to look after), so we found our way into a fair few hostelries in the interests of research.

another_casualty

Wow ! A couple of hours away from here , and l find I have minders on here
taking care of me.
I don't mind the advice from people who totally miss the point , but they are helping also I guess . I'm too focused now anyway.
Harz post 'go away!' Best post here

Anyway , trouble with s. Hitt y wifi / phone / text all day .
Talking to estate agents difficult . They phone and I never get a ring tone . And it goes on.
Spent most of this tube journey wth someone chewing gum in my ear ! Who said I have no patience ?!?

enthusiasticsaver

A few random postings on here! Glad you have found a buyer AC and hope you find somewhere to buy in Poole or close by. Just think you are a few steps closer to being debt free and hopefully away from that job which is making you unhappy and affecting your health.