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Perhaps I was a little naive but I never for one minute questioned our plan to move abroad. It was a dream for us: a move to a lovely warm country, no more miserable weather and a simple, mortgage free life. However things changed and mortgage freedom wasn’t going to happen before our move. But still we [...]
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One of my goals this year was to do my research on being a landlord. And I have. And I think I’ve scared myself. Reading some of the horror stories is enough to put anyone one off, let alone the legal stuff that goes with it. So I’d have to ask the question: Is being [...]
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There was a time when I would wish my time away and want the moving day to be here……right now. I was impatient to get to Portugal and then begin living my life. But that would have meant that I was not living my life for the five years we planned our move to take. Not a way to live.
When we started out in 2007 we had plans to work, work, work, pay off our mortgage and then move to Portugal mortgage free. I’ll happily admit that it was too much for me. My job became such a source of unhappiness that I couldn’t do it anymore and quit in December 2009. This effectively dropped our income by 50%.
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I’ve tried to stop ‘clock watching’ over our move to Portugal as it wasn’t serving a purpose and wishing my time away is the last of my priorities. However I can’t help but realise that we are now more than half way through our five year moving timescale and 2012 is really creeping up on us. Some days [...]
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If you’ve been reading this site for the last few weeks you’ll probably know this already, but after thinking for a long time that we would rent our house out when we move abroad, we have now decided to sell it.
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