[Chauncey]

Can we get an update the-dream?

Where did you end up going?

How did you like it?

How is your business doing?

Any recs for other 19-20 year olds looking for a place to relocate to in order to work on their online business?

You sound like a motivated young player and I was curious how everything turned out.

[the-dream]

(04-22-2016 05:11 AM)Chauncey Wrote:  

Can we get an update the-dream?

Where did you end up going?

How did you like it?

How is your business doing?

Any recs for other 19-20 year olds looking for a place to relocate to in order to work on their online business?

You sound like a motivated young player and I was curious how everything turned out.

After I made this thread, I quit my job, went traveling and blew all my savings and let my internet business go down the drain but had the time of my life.

I then went back home, got a job, laid low and saved up money for 8 months, whilst trying to start making money online again with minimal time investment due to always being at work.

I finally managed to get my income back up to something decent and flew out to South East Asia a few weeks ago, where I've got an office I go to every day with super fast internet and I'm dedicated to making it really work this time.

I'm currently making $1500/month but it is not necessarily sustainable. However, I've got the time to build something properly so I'm quite happy and motivated

Feel free to PM me if you want to know any more specifics!

[the-dream]

(04-22-2016 05:11 AM)Chauncey Wrote:  

Any recs for other 19-20 year olds looking for a place to relocate to in order to work on their online business?

- Get an office space/co-working space. The first time (when I ran out of money and had to go home), my plan was to work from my apartment but this just isn't going to happen unless you are incredibly motivated. Even if you are motivated enough to make it work, it is a very lonely and claustrophobic experience. Get somewhere to work and set yourself hours that you will go there 5 days a week.

- Cheap: Ideally, you want to find somewhere that you can live like a baller for the price of living on the cheap in your country and live on the cheap for the price of money you'd blow on a night out in your home country.

- Hot: I always thought I liked the seasons and scoffed at people who would move just for the weather when I lived in a cold country. When you're in a country where it's summer all year long, you realise that life is just simply better when the sun is shining and it's pretty hard to be depressed.

- Travel and have fun first: Choose which country you want to go to, travel around the cities you're interested in living in and just have a good time for a month. Then, choose where you want to go, settle and get focused. You need to form a habit and if you start trying to work when you're still in holiday mode then you're just setting up bad habits.

- Don't take what is published about a city as gospel and work things out for yourself. In the city I'm in, the advice and information that respectable books and websites publish about it is so off that it almost seems like an inside joke at times. The information on here is more accurate but still, lots of the best parts are missed out (due to a mixture of people not wanting to ruin their gems and people just not knowing) and certain posters write with such a confident, authoritative tone but what they are saying is just simply not true.

I've got to go now but maybe I'll update this if I can think of any more pointers

[RichieP]

GREAT post mate - everything you say is very practical and obviously rooted in real experience.

Took me longer to figure things like that out. Do keep us updated, we want to hear how you progress.

I also totally agree about advice online/in books being so "off". It's good really - by exploring yourself you'll find absolutely hidden gems that really fit you well, and that are relatively untapped. And it also means that the other foreigners with little smarts or tenacity will settle on the first "paradise" as recommended by lonely planet without venturing further. Quite a nice filter actually. Fortune favors the brave.

I've found a couple of hidden gems myself - remember meeting a western engineer in one spot, after a few drinks he leaned over... "Do me a favour - dont tell anyone back home about this mate. Don't ruin it."

[Chauncey]

Thanks for the update!

Quote:

After I made this thread, I quit my job, went traveling and blew all my savings and let my internet business go down the drain but had the time of my life.

This sounds like the intro to a great book or movie. Congrats on having the balls to go out and live life on your own terms, and having the perseverance to bounce back with your business.

And solid advice in your following post.

[RagnarLothbrok]

(04-22-2016 05:29 AM)the-dream Wrote:  

After I made this thread, I quit my job, went traveling and blew all my savings and let my internet business go down the drain but had the time of my life.

I then went back home, got a job, laid low and saved up money for 8 months, whilst trying to start making money online again with minimal time investment due to always being at work.

I finally managed to get my income back up to something decent and flew out to South East Asia a few weeks ago, where I've got an office I go to every day with super fast internet and I'm dedicated to making it really work this time.

I'm currently making $1500/month but it is not necessarily sustainable. However, I've got the time to build something properly so I'm quite happy and motivated

Feel free to PM me if you want to know any more specifics!

Awesome man. That is exactly how to do it. Great that you didn't let yourself discourage from living the life you want after your first business went to shit. 1,500$ is not so bad for SEA. I wish you good luck on your journey and keep updating this thread.

[Kdog]

Where in SEA are you bud? PM me if you don't want to make it public.

[johnbozzz]

Austin, Texas.