The grass always seems greener!
[QUOTE=Dreamer4;2466934]I sometimes thought about this idea of leaving everything in Australia and go to this BBFSCIP dreamland! I know this work colleague living in Perth and he did exactly this. Divorced in his early 60's, went to Philippines and now spent half a year there. He loved it and said that everything is cheap there. He eventually found this girl and brought her to Australia. He is till travelling back and forth though.
The bottom line is it is hard leaving everything behind. Not easy to start a new life in a new country. Also need steady income as the pension is not going to be enough. And then we all eventually get to the stage when we can't do it any more, then what. Back to Australia and die a miserable death? [/QUOTE]Dreamer, you could be in dreamland if you are an old goat believing to go into pasture to a life of bliss in an unfamiliar country like the Philippines. The Chinese believe, a man who is left childless or is unfortunate to have never produced children becomes a "limbless tree".
When a fella is divorced or separated, usually his previous partner turns against him and uses his children as retribution against him. It's cruel and it's called family violence and the justice system turns a blind-eye in their favour. When you are on your last leg of your journey you don't need riches, but it helps, more importantly, your closeness with sons or daughters or family and friends who can support you. Don't be the old elephant that walks off into the jungle, lies down, can't get up and dies while the heard walks on. Often, divorcees find themselves with betrayed friends and their family pet as their best friend. All the best to you!
Happy hunting and punting.
Lotus.
Grandfather Caramello beat them all! Hahaha!
[QUOTE=EngineDriver;2467702]By your definition, Grandpa Caramello was a very fortunate man indeed. He devoted his entire life to mongering in Micronesia and South East Asia, spreading his sperm with careless abandon among thousands of nubile, young nymphs. Total guilt free pleasure without the baggage the average monger carries. In over 40 years of mongering, he probably sired over 500 half cast bastard kids but never saw the need to marry nor acknowledge any of his offspring. He was always one step ahead of his conquests and was careful never to fall in love with any particular LBFM. In the end his hobby killed him. He died a lonely, penniless man in a tiny tin shack on the outskirts of Brisbane. His legacy is all those barefooted kids wandering around dirt poor villages in Asia still looking for their Aussie passports.[/QUOTE]Grandfather Caramello was a legend! He fulfilled his biological function beyond Nature's wildest dreams. In his last days, he said that he enjoyed every minute he spent mongering without regret. He died in his own way after a half-century of relentless mongering and spreading his Aussie seed far and wide throughout Micronesia and Southeast Asia.
Just think of all the suckers who marry and spend their lifetimes trying to please the same old hen in a sexless marriage only to die alone anyway after she violates them in divorce court. Caramello beat them all! LOL!
Don't be left dying and penniles in a tiny tin shack
[QUOTE=ChochaMonger;2467534]Francis bacon said, "he that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." The Chinese follow a very different set of rules compared to the violation that Aussies experience in family court. Aussies father children to serve as hostages for the ex-wife, labor for corporations, and a tax base for the government. The fortunate man is the one who lives for himself and not the reproductive prerogative of women and the state.[/QUOTE]Choc; listen mate! That held during aristocratic and Renaissance times if you were born into a bloodline bubble; 99% of us are not. The world is vastly different now with JobSeeker and JobKeeper and a CentreLink milk bar income for some. The Milk bar mentality works in reverse here. If you worked hard and acquired personal wealth the system punishes and precludes you from an aged pension. A recent comparison made the discord between recipients on 22.5 K / pa for the aged pension and a SMSF with 1. 5 ML in a CBA TD earning 1. 0% pa = 15 K. So fella, LOL! Don't be disgruntled about your milk bar income, it easily out preforms SMSF's. Thanks Engine, we all need reminding not to let our hobby kill ourselves and die lonely and penniless in a tin shack here or the PI.
Happy hunting and punting.
Lotus.