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Don't Waste the Good Days

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Re: Don't Waste the Good Days

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Post by ip26 »

tayo42 wrote: post #308
altdataseller wrote: post #307

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What options do you feel are closing?

I think the window of opportunity to keep traveling and exploring is closing fast, life's milestones are pretty much happening soon, buying a home, getting married and starting a family. I don't think Ill ever get a chance to live in another country besides the US, even for a short period of time. I probably should settle down at some point instead of constantly leaving friendships behind. At this point its pretty cl…

You can’t explore food and cooking? What are you talking about? You have to eat. So If you want to cook, then cook! One year is more than a thousand meals to develop your skill. It’s a fantastic interest to piece into a life of other things.

Re: Don't Waste the Good Days

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Post by kettleballroll »

moneywoes wrote: post #268
kettleballroll wrote: post #226

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I think you're severely underestimating what 20 years mean for your body. I'm a very fit 37 year old, and I very much notice the continued wear and tear. Recovery takes a lot longer, and the body just isn't as limber as it used to be. Partying for days on end, or some extreme sports, and maybe even some intellectual persuits are just WAAAAAY harder then they were 20 or 15 years ago. I can still do them all, but someo…

Have you considered TRT?

What's TRT?

Re: Don't Waste the Good Days

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Post by tayo42 »

ip26 wrote: post #321
tayo42 wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the window of opportunity to keep traveling and exploring is closing fast, life's milestones are pretty much happening soon, buying a home, getting married and starting a family. I don't think Ill ever get a chance to live in another country besides the US, even for a short period of time. I probably should settle down at some point instead of constantly leaving friendships behind. At this point its pretty cl…

You can’t explore food and cooking? What are you talking about? You have to eat. So If you want to cook, then cook! One year is more than a thousand meals to develop your skill. It’s a fantastic interest to piece into a life of other things.

Heh yeah it sounds nonsensical like that. Ill explain! I mean going beyond average home cooking. Exploring cuisines and history of other cultures. Think more like tied to traveling. Like during the covid lock downs I spent a lot of time learning thai and sichuan cuisines as much as I could. I don't think without actually visiting those places, and spending time there to be immersed, talking to chefs I can never say I really know those cuisines. I cant even reliably get the ingredients in the US.

Also I cant really go train with top chefs in the world and get feedback and learn. Home cooking is a hard thing to share besides glamouring up things for like instagram. I can cook pretty well, probably put together a better meal then most local restaurants, but there's still a large gap between what I can cook and some of the places Ive eaten at just in technique and espcially creativity. I don't think I can close that gap.

Re: Don't Waste the Good Days

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Post by ip26 »

tayo42 wrote: post #323
ip26 wrote: post #321

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You can’t explore food and cooking? What are you talking about? You have to eat. So If you want to cook, then cook! One year is more than a thousand meals to develop your skill. It’s a fantastic interest to piece into a life of other things.

Heh yeah it sounds nonsensical like that. Ill explain! I mean going beyond average home cooking. Exploring cuisines and history of other cultures. Think more like tied to traveling. Like during the covid lock downs I spent a lot of time learning thai and sichuan cuisines as much as I could. I don't think without actually visiting those places, and spending time there to be immersed, talking to chefs I can never say I…

I cant really go train with top chefs in the world and get feedback and learn.

Sabbatical + paid course

Home cooking is a hard thing to share

Invite friends over for dinner!

I don't think I can close that gap.

Those are people who dedicate their whole life to cooking & built a whole business, they are literally the pros. Don’t get down on yourself.

P.S. Thai basil grows great in hydroponics

Re: Don't Waste the Good Days

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Post by tayo42 »

ip26 wrote: post #324
tayo42 wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh yeah it sounds nonsensical like that. Ill explain! I mean going beyond average home cooking. Exploring cuisines and history of other cultures. Think more like tied to traveling. Like during the covid lock downs I spent a lot of time learning thai and sichuan cuisines as much as I could. I don't think without actually visiting those places, and spending time there to be immersed, talking to chefs I can never say I…

I cant really go train with top chefs in the world and get feedback and learn. Sabbatical + paid course Home cooking is a hard thing to share Invite friends over for dinner! I don't think I can close that gap. Those are people who dedicate their whole life to cooking & built a whole business, they are literally the pros. Don’t get down on yourself. P.S. Thai basil grows great in hydroponics

Yeah but there are trade offs to these, taking a sabbatical might mean pushing off owning a home or starting a family, or moving out of this apartment that I dont like living in. Or not travelling as much as i would like or advancing in other hobbies.

> they are literally the pros.

But the chances for me to pursue something like that is disappearing.

I need to be more selective about what is important, those other doors and paths in life are closing.

Re: Don't Waste the Good Days

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Post by JCharante »

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #62
JCharante wrote: post #47

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Is it hard to stay there for that long? Most people just keep doing visa runs on 3 month tourist visas in SEA. The Bangkok visa run is a treasured pilgramage.

You can't visa run in Thailand anymore, it's been like that for several years now and especially not recently with covid. Immigration won't let you in arbitrarily if they see you doing visa runs "too much". Too much is at their discretion so you can't rely on it

Oh really? I must have not hit the limit before covid hit. I thought countries usually have a problem with stamping in and stamping out the entire length of your visa free stay and repeatedly doing it, but I didn't think they had an issue with visiting Thailand every 3 months for 1 or 2 days at a time.

Re: Don't Waste the Good Days

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Post by kettleballroll »

reducesuffering wrote: post #326
kettleballroll wrote: post #322

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What's TRT?

Testosterone Replacement Therapy

I'm not considering that at all, no. From talks with all my peers, it's pretty obvious to me that this is the very normal aging process, and TRT has too many known side effects (and unknown 2nd order side effects) to be worth it

Re: Don't Waste the Good Days

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Post by rootsudo »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #161
passerby1 wrote: post #124

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Do you need to actually pay/invest or just show that you own your 70k?

https://visaagencybali.com/visa/investor-visa/ You need to invest in a company - but IIUC you could just buy ~$70k shares of Indonesia Telecom (i.e.), live there for 3 years, collect dividends, and then cash out when you're done. Under normal conditions, I wouldn't want to invest ~$70k in some Indonesian large cap I know nothing about. But if I wanted to live in Bali for a year, this is a pretty easy way to do it...

This is not accurate anylonger - the new way is to form a PMA with two people. Then you can sponsor your own kitas.

While you don't have any equity in stocks, you are also immune from loss there. It becomes a cost - you can form a PMA from 25-60 juta and do an investor kitas fro 18 juta (million.)

You also don't need to give up 70k liquidity, on the risk that it may not come back and for dividends which are 100% taxable in the country (about 23% AFAIK.) because you must report revenue annually.

70K in stocks w/ dividends OR form a corporate structure for about $3000.

The other alternative is b211a/social visa, which is 60 days and about 1 million a month after per renewal up to 6 months, meaning, 4 renewals at 4 juta/million IDR and then 3 million to apply - so 7 juta total every 6 months MAX. 14 annually.

If you need more info, feel free to reach out - surprised this topic was on HN .

Re: Don't Waste the Good Days

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Post by stefandesu »

axiosgunnar wrote: post #213
forgotmyoldname wrote: post #136

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I’m one of those fools who took a few years off before college, after college, and decided to up and move to a faraway country while I was young. It’s very likely I’d have more money if I went straight to work while I was younger instead of goofing off. I could probably have paychecks twice as big as I do now. But you know what? My worst days in the place I live now are better than my best days in my home country. My…

Where did you move to?

I was curious as well and it seems they are located in Japan, judging from another comment.
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