After reading a few articles over the last month about how cheap it is to live in Asia. I wonder why I'm still waiting.
http://opentravel.com/blogs/the-cheapes ... 0-a-month/
Sure, everyone wants to stay in Somerwhereville, but if we are open to change and new cultures, ERE seems reachable sooner for me and maybe you.
Any thoughts?
Retire now?
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If you are just considering costs (setting aside issues of culture/language/climate/visas etc.) don't forget to factor in the cost of traveling out of your low COL Asian country. Most likely you'd want to travel back to your home country somewhere between 3 times a year and once every three years. Flying out of a cheap country usually isn't so cheap. Depending where you were, you might want to travel regularly for health care as well.
That said I daydream from time to time about living in Malaysia or Indonesia for a few years. The mega-malls of KL aren't bastions of anti-consumerism, though.
That said I daydream from time to time about living in Malaysia or Indonesia for a few years. The mega-malls of KL aren't bastions of anti-consumerism, though.