> Preamble: I'm extremely lucky. ... So what you're going to read is 99% luck and 1% planets alignment.
We are all extremely lucky. We are just too cowards to move to Nigeria or South Africa or Ethiopia or El Salvador to cash out on this super luck that we had.
Reasons are health infrastructure, being far from parents and family, fear of violence, fear of diseases.
They are all valid. But by the same token there is an element of cowardness about looking at prices of stuff in foreign countries on Numbeo.com, calculate the churn rate and never actually act upon such thought.
Arrange your affairs to be a big fish in a small pond, if we don't make the mental leap we will never do it, because no matter how much you have there's always gonna be a bigger pond or a largest challenge.
It's a form of mental rumination I think, looking at people like Gates and Bezos...they have it in full swing.
They could own the universe and there is once in a billion chance of multiverses and they'd keep working to make sure they take on the new challanges that those multiverses represent
I fail to see what good it is to own a mansion and have a bunch of toys if you live in a dangerous area where you have to put up a gate, have armed guards and in general worry about someone knocking you over the head and stealing your shit. Being the richest person in the ghetto is like being tallest midget - who cares.
Have you personally tried moving from a stable, developed country to somewhere with much lower cost of living?
I lived for some years in a "good" suburb of a pretty well-known third-world city. Everyone had security bars on the windows and razor wire (or similar) atop their walls. Many of our neighbours employed round-the-clock armed guards.
I personally witnessed a police-vs-robbers shootout (leaving at least one dead on the ground) from my office window. For a while, carrying a pillion passenger on a motorcycle was banned because it was such a popular way to do drive-by shootings.
The majority of the expatriate community I knew there had personally experienced violent crime of some form (armed break-ins, hold-ups, car-jacking, etc). So had some of my local friends, of course, though many of them were much less well-off and therefore less of a target (you can't snatch someone's car at gunpoint if they don't have one).
When disorder and violence is that pervasive in a society, it can be pretty hard to live with.
But many aspects of the cost of living were indeed lower.
Present day Lagos is not that much unlike the Los Angeles of the 1990s or the NYC of the 1970s and 80s.
Problem , of course there'll always be a safer place, by the same token people who live in present day LA or NYC are suicidal considering they could live in Montana or Utah, or Zurich.
We are all extremely lucky. We are just too cowards to move to Nigeria or South Africa or Ethiopia or El Salvador to cash out on this super luck that we had.
Reasons are health infrastructure, being far from parents and family, fear of violence, fear of diseases.
They are all valid. But by the same token there is an element of cowardness about looking at prices of stuff in foreign countries on Numbeo.com, calculate the churn rate and never actually act upon such thought.
Arrange your affairs to be a big fish in a small pond, if we don't make the mental leap we will never do it, because no matter how much you have there's always gonna be a bigger pond or a largest challenge.
It's a form of mental rumination I think, looking at people like Gates and Bezos...they have it in full swing.
They could own the universe and there is once in a billion chance of multiverses and they'd keep working to make sure they take on the new challanges that those multiverses represent