sobajoe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 6:50 pm Hi all ,
I'd like to ask you all if you have/had property back in own country which you rented out or have sold in order to stay in the kingdom, and if so how did it go/ has it gone ?

My situation , I am in a bungalow in the UK , value estimated to be 130,000 gbp, which I inherited from good, old Dad.

I returned to the UK from PP last March, just as the world was closing down , and may even have been on the last flight out, via Dubai with UAE. In the prior few years, I ad been spending around 6 months between UK and PP/Kampot/Siem Reap/Shitville over the UK winter. I left early this time because as the covid kicked off, my fathers heart failure turned acute and due to lack of oxygen his mind was going. When he told me on the phone his deceased mother was living with him it coincided with Britain entering lock-down, he always did have a sense of humor; I thought he was winding me up !

Anyhow , long story short ... I bolted back to the UK , and looked after him until he passed away in July last year. So here I am , waiting for some kind of normal to return to all of our lives.

While lying on the couch, stoned , I am pondering the future. Britain has turned into something I neither recognize, understand , or even want to deal with. I have known and seen coming for many years the need to be somewhere else for my later years and I will be 49 in sept.

One important decision is the Bungalow. Rent it out, but possibly have to return to UK if any issues arose , although it would be through an agency. Sell it and have a chunky lump sum which would then need its own careful management.

There was a small chunk of change to add to my own nest egg in the bank equating to around 50-60 ,000 gbp and so this will be used for income in addition to the house.

I have a degree, and a teaching qualification that I did last year but never used during my last stay.
My pension age is 67 as things stand in the UK , and that is some way off , so who even knows if I would make it that far.

After Dads passing , I went to work for a couple of months in a factory and hated every second until I went on 3 day holiday and decided I was finished working in the UK.

So while I smoke on the couch , my expensive weed and rolling tobacco is helping to make a UK winter and a shit past year seem part of the price for the escape I will be making.

Hopefully , it will be better times for us all soon. Just got to hang in a little longer guys ! In the mean time - any suggestions , knowledge , experience from which I may benefit would be very much appreciated and greatly received. ( no thread Jackers, please. Insults will be returned with volley fire )

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 5:38 am You can sell it once. You can rent it out forever. I wouldn't sell it.

sobajoe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 6:50 pm My situation , I am in a bungalow in the UK , value estimated to be 130,000 gbp, which I inherited from good, old Dad.

sobajoe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 6:50 pm I will be 49 in sept.

sobajoe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 6:50 pm My pension age is 67 as things stand in the UK , and that is some way off , so who even knows if I would make it that far.

sobajoe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 6:50 pm There was a small chunk of change to add to my own nest egg in the bank equating to around 50-60 ,000 gbp and so this will be used for income in addition to the house.