Glas to hear it has helped and I wish you all the best with getting out of debt and setting up your income streams. Glad to have you as a reader.

Cheers and keep posting and I’ll keep reading!

Good luck man, I am sure you will be change your life and create it exactly how you want it. I look forward to hearing about it and I love your blog design.

Se you one day in BKK!

Bye,
Martin

Don’t get me wrong – it’s a good experience to visit these places, but that doesn’t mean the solution to everyone’s problems is to set up a mediocre business that earns them just enough money to benefit from cheap cost of living in poor countries. I’ve read Tim Ferriss’ book, and what I found interesting is that he starts with the claim “I went from earning $40,000/year to $40,000/mnth” and then in the later chapters seems to suggest “actually you barely need any money, just sell all your stuff and move to one of these cheap places…”. Let’s face it, if most westerners were pulling in $40,000/mnth, they wouldn’t go live in Bangkok.

I think much less emphasis should be placed on location, and much more emphasis on maximising income. I probably have enough money to give live in Thailand for years without doing a stroke of work, but I feel like it would result in a massive skills gap and a drop in personal productivity (i.e. I’d become even lazier!). There’s a reason people teach English out there, and it isn’t just for money – it’s because people like to have a purpose. There’s also the sustainablity issue: what if you want to return to the UK and build up a brand (or get a skilled job, become a CEO of an existing company, etc.). Do you think you’re going to get much respect by saying “well, I’ve only worked 90 minutes per day for the last decade, but it’s ok: Bangkok is really cheap you know?!”.

I think you mention Richard Branson elsewhere in your blog. What strikes me is that Branson has achieved what he has by shooting for the moon, not by shooting for £2-3k a month (coz you can live like a king in Bangkok on that).

Anyway, appologies for going beyond the scope of this post – it’s just good to challenge each others’ philosophies sometimes. Maybe I’ll wrap it up in a book:
“The Anti-Four-Hour-Workweek: Why the World Would Fall Apart if Everyone Lived Like Tim Ferriss”.

Thanks for the comment and while you are correct in the semantics of what you say it is easier for people to understand if you talk in terms of interest. In Thailand, even at todays vastly reduced currency fluctuations you can have a substantial increase in life quality akin to having at least 3 times the money you would have in Britain for example. Also, with regards to “Third World” countries Bangkok is actually one of the most developed cities in the world and would rival places such London on most things and I speak from experience on this.

Well done on achieving the lifestyle you set out for, I’d just rather not see some ebook for sale one day, claiming how you can earn “300% interest” by moving to Bangkok. More info on your actual revenue streams would be more useful to me, and a realisation that it’s not necessarily enviable to be constrained to third-world countries.

Thanks for dropping past the site.

Leveraging currency is one of the key aspects of making living abroad a reality. I choose places that allow me to live a very good lifestyle one very little money. As I start making more money and my monthly passive income increases I will start to explore the more expensive places to live. Bangkok is excellent, especially if you work online. In many way Bangkok is the most developed city I have ever been to and you are never short of high speed internet so don’t worry. I highly recommend it – cheap and awesome place.

I have heard good this about Buenos Aires but I wont be there for a year or so as I am going to tour India instead. Anywhere in asia is usually a safe bet. Shainghai is another place I lived for a while and it is also incredible and cheap.

hope this helps mate.