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  1. troph

    LBGTQ

  2. Too remote for us to consider for full time but we’d love to visit for sure.
  3. My hunch is staying in similar time zones will be important for us - whether it’s watching a UT game, working FT or PT, or being closer to our kids, I just don’t see Europe as home base working easily for us. From there, it’s the culture, we genuinely love Mexico and its people.
  4. once we get over the myth of American exceptionalism then every country is a pros/cons analysis and there is nothing that demands you stay here. outcomes in the US objectively show the US is one of many countries to consider, not the only one.
  5. trans pecos is a great place to disappear. very appealing.
  6. average monthly expenses in mexico can be like $1500/2500 per month (before you splurge). if you can trade your house for a house or condo in mexico then you are mortgage free and their property taxes are next to nothing. tax treaty so no double tax on income, similar income tax rates. healthcare is western, American/Canada trained doctors in the popular spots. residents are in the Mexico health care system and you can get additional coverage. residency requirements are manageable. temp I think is less than $100,000 in cash and a very modest income requirement - nomad work or investment income is fine as I recall. ineffective cost wise to borrow for housing even when you can, so you should pay cash. housing varies. there is some very expensive real estate in Mexico but there's considerable value too. We are currently looking at Puerto Vallarta and San Miguel de Allende. PV is extremely hot and humid in the summers - and that's by Texas standards - and most only winter in PV - at least 5 months out the year are tough - by May it's hot, and it's still pretty hot and humid in October. But November through April can be really nice. SMA is in the central mountain region about 6000 ft elevation so it can be quite mild. once you can determine your housing situation, then it's all downhill from there. full time assistant - grocery shopping, errands, miscellaneous personal assistant stuff, $5 USD per hour. $1000/month and you're getting a pretty solid assistant. you can add gardeners if you need one, a cook, maid service too for part time next to nothing. PV has 35,000 US/Canadian ex pats, SMA something like 10,000. Cartel violence is aimed at rivals and gangs, Mexico has virtually zero non-cartel gun violence. So school shootings, movie theatres getting pelted with ammo, concerts, malls, indiscriminate gun violence is not a thing. violent crime is higher in Mexico but it's predictable. remains to be seen how politics will change things for expats but there's a decent chance we are applying for temp residency this summer. there is a similar equation in southern Europe - Portugal, Spain, Italy, Montenegro, Greece, Croatia. Housing is always the wild card but there are plenty of opportunities. Costa Rica, Panama, South America as well, plenty of opportunity where your money will amplify 3-4-5x compared to in the US. At this point I don't see how we stay, the ability to retire early and not go bankrupt with health care is just too inciting. Tradeoffs are real, but for us, if our actual cost goes down to $5000-6000 per month, then we should have plenty to travel ALL the time - a month or two in the US in places we love should be infinitely doable. So live in SMA or PV and summer or winter or travel all the time wherever, even a month in California or Colorado is completely doable. picking up flights from PV to ATX for a weekend to see a baseball game at the Disch or even going to a concert and staying for a week suddenly becomes not a dream but an easy reality. spending an entire summer in europe becomes easy too, no housing costs to speak of, you can pick up and go.
  7. Flo Rida…. open up the champagne!!
  8. Here you can sometimes see improvement but given lawyer rates I generally won’t take these cases as odds are you won’t get much more. but odds aren’t guarantees. Leverage is usually the thing you need to get more, and companies are often told to stick to a severance policy or program so that outcomes aren’t different across different classes of employees which is how claims start to breed. In any event, it’s rare asking for more from a need or request for kindness really works but some companies do have wiggle room. OP can and should spend $350-500 on a CO lawyer to advise on his personal situation because there might be a path to more and even if the answer is it’s not worth it, knowing is worth some amount of money.
  9. i agree 100% and I'm now a huge francophile and not just for their wine.
  10. we took possession of the goods and already have it in secure storage designed for storing high value property. after some research including reading Goldman Sachs forecasts and a few others - and wow what a conspiratorial rats nest the gold corner of the internet can be - we decided to hold indefinitely (at least this year). we are expecting a nice run up on both this year. modestly 8-10% but 25% isn't out of the question. the question will be when to sell. Historically, gold and silver are shit compared to the S&P and DJIA, like hammered dog shit. I get the appeal, and shit we aren't talking ETFs we're talking the real stuff, so clearly her folks thought the tangible stuff was what mattered. I fundamentally disagree unless we are dealing with zombies then I think the bugs are winning for sure. anyway, finding the off ramp is going to be interesting.
  11. all kidding aside, I'm really, really hoping the French do this. Man that just might be what the world actually needs right now.
  12. troph

    LBGTQ

    so far the two bills I care most about H3399 and S84 haven't progressed. Plenty of time for fuckery, but 11pm checks about once a week and their status has remained the same. fingers crossed.
  13. I'll even let the hot bi/bi-curious french women make hot french love to me with their hairy armpits if they save the world.
  14. if your an executive there can be room to negotiate. gotchas on equity forfeiture, buyback rights, value, etc. can come up. If you were laid off from a management position but not executive, there probably isn't much room to negotiate. sometimes you can negotiate better healthcare on an exit like having the company pay COBRA premiums as opposed to simply offering coverage (which is required by law for employers of a certain size). key issues will be whether you truly have a viable claim (because you are releasing all claims), in many instances you simply don't - age, race, sex are the only ones that really come to mind - whistleblower too, but I'm not familiar with CO law, only TX. I had a client that got completely broadsided by MA employment law on a pregnancy discrim case, wow that was brutal. Ended fine, I handled the equity buyout piece, but it took two years. You aren't a pregnant woman in Massachusetts are you? In any event, checking your status and facts against CO law would be important but severance is money in hand, no lawyers, no contingent claims, no 2 year drawn out process that frankly you may not even have as an option. non-solicitation and non-competes can be important too, a lawyer can help review that and explain. compliance is the last piece, return of property, large companies have processes for exiting that you have to follow or you could lose your benefits. non-disparagement is usually a thing too - that's momma's rule - if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. truth is not a defense to non-disparagement clauses. I think that pretty much covers the areas I would discuss on a Texas case in the first 30 mins. I'd spend the second half of an hour call diving into the equity issues. and frankly if it's not an executive exit, I wouldn't really take the matter, not sure I could do much to help. oh and...
  15. looks like sheer ability to collect is limited - the other thread said US has 7 large surveillance planes, UK has 3. stuff like that. I'm betting Europe can step up to a degree, again I think it's the core of Europe putting troops on the ground and the French/UK nuclear deterrent that makes Ukraine de facto nuclear that shuts this down ... or more likely escalates it into a full scale European war. there's probably still an outside chance of a resolution where Ukraine gives up mineral rights, gives up some territory but gets the security guarantees from Europe. but that requires Russia being willing to accept that.
  16. nah, we won't engage, just like the last time. we won't share weaponry or intelligence either. I don't see Trump sending troops to fight Europe. At his core he's an isolationist that doesn't want to spend the cash. Instead, he keeps the US on the sidelines and he gets to grift and gets paid.
  17. I'm willing to bet the core of Europe puts troops in Ukraine. gonna plant that stake in the ground now. I think shit is going to get real fucking ballsy real soon.
  18. and @bolverk that article talks some about the intelligence gaps between the US and UK... also advanced weaponry I was alluding to earlier.
  19. that's pretty demoralizing, I think the only counter to this is France, Germany, Poland and the UK putting troops on the ground and the French and British doing so in numbers with a clear message Ukraine is now de facto nuclear. absent that, I think this article is likely true. unfortunately, that does mean war with Russia and no matter how you technically define a World War - Russia fighting in Ukraine with French, German, British and Polish troops present on the ground (and anyone else that will join) is pretty much what we called a World War in I and in II.
  20. I hate to break it to the real man of genius but that 12, 16, 24 ounces of Jimmy Dean will fucking kill him 20 years early. But hey, he's a real man, all 200 pounds of one. only pussies eat plain yogurt with an assortment of berries, nuts and seeds for breakfast. fucking museli and oat milk. get em yanks and fairymen and their healthy 93 year old asses outta here!!!
  21. ok so British capabilities? when it comes to Europe defending Ukraine - intelligence is probably the number one weakness, as well as some advanced weaponry but I think the Brits have enough on the weapons side for Europe to do just fine. so how is their stand alone intelligence for Ukraine?
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