I am formulating a plan, a way to semi-retire as cheaply as possible, without living in a shitty bedsit in Australia (which will cost me $350 AUD a week just for rent before bills…).
While I still want to live in Australia (more on how I might do that cheaply later), I figure there are cheaper places to be, even places I might consider exotic, where I can languish for a month at a time very cheaply, via monthly rentals of furnished apartments with bills included.
And write.
Plus a bit of freelance work. At $50 USD per hour, a $400 USD monthly rent is quite doable…
So I am starting a list, feeling my way around the concept. Something like 2 months away, one month in Melbourne, repeat. Places I could live for a month or two. I need to analyse the whole planet and work out where the journeys to and fro make sense economically, because flying is of course not cheap.
My golden rule is that I must be able to haver accommodation, with Internet, for under $600 USD per month.
PLACES I CAN STAY
Cairo
Nepal
Chiang Mai
Vietnam
(especially Phu Quoc – own room in a backpackers for $12/day rainy season, national park has various monkeys
Nairobi, Kenya
Kampala, Uganda
Quito, Ecuador or Bogota, Colombia are very cheap, or literally anywhere in South America qualifies. I cannot and will not speak Spanish though 🙁
Sri Lanka – hotel for $800/mo, hostels from $12 + flights $700 e/w
Best time for OK weather but not tourist peak is November for the South+ West and January-March in the East+North
Some really rough impoverished part of the US
Eastern Europe with difficult languages
South America?
China?
PLACES I CANNOT STAY
UK / Ireland
Hawaii
Australia (away from home)
NZ