{"id":76396,"date":"2011-05-14T06:01:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-downsized-from-60000-to-16000\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T04:05:24","slug":"we-downsized-from-60000-to-16000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-downsized-from-60000-to-16000\/","title":{"rendered":"We downsized from \u00a360,000 to \u00a316,000"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Stoddart family downsized from a comfortable \u00a360,000-a-year life in Brighton to live in west Wales on \u00a316,000 \u2013 and they still have to pay a mortgage. Here they tell how they did itI was sitting in a business meeting a couple of years ago doing what normal people do in meetings at work. There was lots of “blah, blah, blah, financial targets” and “waffle, waffle, waffle, notes from the last meeting” when it dawned on me that, now in my mid-30s, I didn’t want to “do business” any more. I didn’t want to work in an office, in fact.I started wondering what would happen if we were all thrown into a practically challenging situation, such as the middle of a jungle somewhere; how would we cope and, you know, survive? What good would PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat skills do then? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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