Retirement age?

**Thinkingofachange** · 29th September 2012 10:24

Indeed--and a single guy can comfortably retire in Thailand at 30 with $100k.

**buddahas** · 29th September 2012 10:27

I don't think so toac. The girls will bleed you dry.

**keekwai** · 29th September 2012 10:48

If you were smart enough to save 100k by 30 ... you'd be smart enough to handle the girls.

**Thinkingofachange** · 29th September 2012 10:59

Originally Posted by keekwai

If you were smart enough to save 100k by 30 ... you'd be smart enough to handle the girls.

Of course, if you're smart enough to save 100k by 30, you should probably do humanity a favor and keep working.

**tomcat** · 29th September 2012 11:30

Originally Posted by keekwai

you'd be smart enough to handle the girls

...not necessarily the same skill set involved...

**keekwai** · 30th September 2012 10:35

^ How would you know?

**jonny danger** · 30th September 2012 11:00

Originally Posted by Thinkingofachange

Of course, if you're smart enough to save 100k by 30

Smart enough? Yeah, intelligence and a bank account go hand in hand .. can't have one without the other.

**keekwai** · 30th September 2012 11:26

Originally Posted by jonny danger

Smart enough? Yeah, intelligence and a bank account go hand in hand

I think the bank account in question ... unlike your's little jonny... has money in it. How's skid row these days?

**THX 1133** · 30th September 2012 12:53

My sister is 63 and just signed a contract with a government Mattayom school in Ratchaburi; no problem.

**tomcat** · 30th September 2012 15:33

Originally Posted by keekwai

How would you know?

...because I met a very smart German who built his own company from scratch in California: he's 29 and has just escaped from a horrible marriage to a lusty American gold-digging waitress and is now with a lusty gold-digging "currently unemployed" Thai...his business acumen is demonstrated every day (he's retired here and runs his company as an internet business)...his ability to find a suitable partner here is zero: he cruises beer bars, discos, etc looking for long-term love...having a drink with him and his gf is painful...he's like buddhahas around women, but a real Zuckerman where business is concerned...that's how I know...

**Thinkingofachange** · 30th September 2012 22:46

Originally Posted by jonny danger

intelligence and a bank account go hand in hand .. can't have one without the other.

While not all rich people are smart, it does take intelligence to become rich--and stay rich--from nothing. There are plenty of stories of rock stars, football athletes, etc. who were too stupid to manage their riches and quickly became impoverished or deeply in debt.

And then there are people who never see any wealth at all, despite being born in one of the wealthiest generations at a time of enormous financial growth and prosperity. That's you, in case you didn't know it, jd.