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Maybe live in Bhutan. Or at least retire to Bhutan.
I wasn't aware that Bhutan allowed foreigners to move there. It's expensive and difficult to even visit. Maybe Ecuador or Costa Rica?
I looked into cheap places to retire, but I didn't think it made sense for me. If you want to live like a king and have lots of servants then you can do that on a much lower budget. But I can live the way I prefer in the US for nearly the same cost as anywhere and with less hassle.
McDonald's and Starbucks are leaders in their sectors. I've flipped burgers (Hardee's) and delivered pizzas, and there was no non-wage compensation offered at the time.
If the GI bill was "compensation for services rendered" then the government could give host of "free" benefits to anyone who graduated gradeschool and you could call that compensation as well.
Are you really that clueless to not see that JOB BENNIFITS are "compensation"?!?!?!!!
I guess next you'll be saying that work connected health insurance is welfare!?!
Are you really that clueless to not see that JOB BENNIFITS are "compensation"?
The GI bill was passed after the fact. It was a surprise bonus. Just because you had to be in military service for 90 days didn't make it a "job benefit".
A massive and massively successful welfare program.
If I'm not mistaken, it's nothing like it was in past decades.
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When I lived on <$5k/yr I lived in my truck. On $15k/yr I saved up for a 20% down payment and bought a $160k house with my wife (15yr loan). We split expenses 50/50 so my share of that is around $600/mo including utilities, insurance, taxes, maintenance, etc.
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I think living in a vehicle is very viable and realistic. Many options. A couple years I worked at Bryce Canyon for 7 months and drew unemployment while I camped in the desert for the rest of the year. Made enough in those 2 years to last me about 8 years of not working at all.
I wouldn't have guessed one can live in a vehicle anymore. I acquired the impression law enforcement gets on people who do that.
I wouldn't have guessed one can live in a vehicle anymore. I acquired the impression law enforcement gets on people who do that.
I did it mostly on BLM and NF land far from other people. Never had a problem. In town or on private property there is certainly a risk. I camped for 2 years a few miles outside of Temecula, in an abandoned luxury RE development (early 90s). When I worked at Bryce I had housing on site.
How often are people actually buying tires? In the last 17 years, I've replaced 4 tires! I get a new vehicle normally before it needs tires. And it's not like people buy tires every month or every year. And no one has any idea what someone's vehicle payment is! I know many people who lease vehicles and have REALLY LOW payments....much lower than mine, but a lease doesn't work for me because of my mileage and I'm hard on vehicles. I don't buy SUV's for showing off. I use that sucker!
I buy tires every year.
I know how much people's vehicle payments are because they tell me.
The GI bill was passed after the fact. It was a surprise bonus. Just because you had to be in military service for 90 days didn't make it a "job benefit".
Correct. The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 was a welfare program, pure and simple. Its housing, unemployment, and education benefits were much needed at the time and helped millions of servicemen return, adjust, and assimilate smoothly into post-war civilian society. The programs were reasonably well designed, funded, and implemented, but it was all welfare all the time, no matter how anyone tries to slice it.
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