Best country to live in if you had an average UK wage

[Maggot]

If your only requirement is a good internet connection why would you need your money to go far?

I can't believe you're asking this.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

There is an argument that says where's the moral high ground in placing yourself geographically further away from other people's misery? i.e. The slums are still there even when you're in the UK, you just don't have to think about them.

I don't know if I totally buy the argument, but it exists

Oh that's not where I was going at all; I've thought about little else since seeing the slums of Mumbai. Looks like the Calais Jungle did, but with no hope ever of moving on. The Indian middle and upper classes need to be paying a shit load more to eliminate these slums. The cash-crash of November is a step in the right direction, but it is such a massive thing that needs doing, fuck knows how it'll ever be done.

 

[Cosmic]

Landed back from Mumbai last night, there's a city I hope never to visit again, what a fucking shithole.

Great country to visit, the food's just marvelous and most things are very cheap. But yes, the fucking snobbery of the Indian middle classes is off the scale. And they all look so frigging miserable with it.

This is the view from our room on the 16th floor of the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai, top end hotel and it's here:

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That picture reminded me of the area around the Howrah Bridge in Calcutta when we were there 20+ years ago. It was also an extremely smelly shithole, unbelievable squalor...with some satellite dishes dotted amongst them. I must admit I'm not in a particular hurry to go back to India, which is probably a bit unfair because I'm sure there are plenty of absolutely wonderful places in India, but it's not somewhere I'd like to live at the moment. We do have friends that absolutely LOVE it there including a family who moved from Spain to Kerela.

 

[Riklet]

Portugal or Spain are def worth considering. Greece or Slovenia could be nice.

Make sure you read up about taxes and obligations laws etc once youre a fiscal resident somewhere. May only take 6 months and you don't want nasty surprises.

Depends what youre looking for really! Portugal would def be a good base if you wanna live cheap and travel.

 

[CyberRose]

Colombia

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Cuba or Mexico.

 

[planetgeli]

Laos.

Slovenia.

Euskadi, but specifically in the Pyrénées.

 

[Idris2002]

Don't be daft Frank, canals have got water in them. They're for boats.

Never heard of a pedal boat, then?

 

[Flavour]

A lesser-visited Greek island, Spain or Sardinia