So, I've decided that instead of sitting around, waiting for me to get my happy ending and watching everyone get theirs, I'm gonna go live a bomb ass life! And you know what, I think it just might be doable! I can cash out my 401K which has about $20,000 in it right now and I can sell my car for a decent chunk of change. I can use some of the money to pay off my credit cards completely and pay off my car. That means that the only debt I should be taking with me is $130/mo for student loans. So, the question is where? The whole purpose of this would be so I can keep traveling around Europe while I live there so it needs to be connected to the mainland. And of course, I would prefer it's a primarily English speaking country! I would like to make sure the chances of me failing are less than they would be in America, so I want to make sure the cost of living ranks lower than the US. So far, I'm leaning towards the Netherlands but we'll see!
My dude-but-not-dude is absolutely determined that he is going to go with me. I almost feel like it's crazier to do that then go by myself but we shall see how it pans out! It'll be nice to have someone to support me while we're figuring out how to do this in another country.
Tentative plan for the crazy adventure I'm about to embark on:
- Look at job market
- Learn either Dutch or German
- Look at rental market
- Buy tickets!
- Fucking gooooooooo!
