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39 minutes ago, Boarn said:

Yes I don't use Amazon. Apple a bit different as there is competition in terms of just as good Android devices.

 

CP literally own everything, 7/11, Makro, Lotus, even small CP meat shops out here in the countryside. I would prefer not to buy things from a monopoly, that's very hard, even if you don't buy directly from a CP shop you are buying from a shop that buys from CP. So it's the principal really, I want to choose to shop somewhere not be forced to because there is no other choice. 

Start raising & farming your own....Buy a chest freezer & stock up from local suppliers....

The alternatives are a lot harsher in reality than just shopping as assiduously as possible....

That's a good question, due mostly to circumstances....With a wife & raised 2 daughters here they would basically have to drop out of sight....Since we are all very compatible & comfortable with each other I can see us somehow together in some fashion....

Having lived alone in the past, I know I could - but I'm not sure if I'd remain here or not....

At 73 the bachelor's lifestyle has lost it's hedonistic luster & the itch doesn't need to be scratched as often as in the younger days....

If something were suddenly to happen that left me alone, I think I'd make a bigger change up for about a year & see how the domino's fall.....

I'd really heavily lean towards heading back to the US and break out & service the RV and just travel solo = which to my mind is about as independent and solo as one could be with an ever changing landscape.... It's an easy trail to make & mingle and establish associations & friends....

It's an interesting question for me....

He's definitely losing/lost his 19th hole privileges....

Personally, I'm not really a "wordy" person.... Why take 100+ words when I can give a answer or comment in far less....If I have helpful advice nobody else has broached, I'll offer it....

I'm not in need of attention, nor do I think I need to impose my opinions on others....

I don't batter people with words in person either....

1 hour ago, 473geo said:

Must be quite few guys who read the opening post, thinking he got something wrong somewhere! For sure no matter where you are in the world not having the need to get up to go to work, is great start to the day.

Took me about a year to deprogram myself from the "rush" of life & the drive/guilt of not going to work....I didn't really miss anyone or anything about work - just the hardwired response that I HAD to get up and go....Work had never been a centerpiece of my life, but it still took a period of time to make the adjustment.....

Fortunately, I got myself out & about taking on new challenges...

Something a little more difficult to do taking in today's environment....

I never was a bar goer, so was never surrounded by, or beholden to that crowd....

Hopefully Mick can do something, even if mundane like power walking or bike riding away from people, just to see the outside, the sun, wind, sea.....Mild exercise at home = something to break up his routine of nothingness....

We have people we haven't, can't see + a university sweetheart of a daughter that wants to come home for holiday - wife says nope = no safety.... Don't know the who, what, wear of her interactions....

Unfortunately, we're stuck with the temperamental, flighty, bratty-ish daughter in house - unfortunately - I can't trade them..

Mick's going to have to make some positive changes & weather the storm....

12 months of RVing the US would make up for the 6 months planned for last year + 6 months, hopefully, for the next trip....

Initially Oregon & Washington + taking an Alaskan cruise, then working through to the Dakotas & Yellowstone,  then meandering southwards exploring some of the old indian settlements & Utah taking our own sweet time....The wife wants to see Graceland so that, then seeing family in Texas &  Florida....

Our own time and itinerary....

Let's all play the shame game -

Meanwhile they highjacked the 1.2 million doses shipment sent from the US intended for expats....