I am married with two kids. The children will be in 4rd grade and 7th grade when I look to make the move. I have done the math but would like to bounce it off of some people. My expected time frame is summer 2006.
I am considering moving to the DR for a period of three or so years. I would like to attend college in the DR so I could be bilingual.
BTW I only need 30 credits to Have a BA in Culinary arts so I should be close to having a stateside degree by then. If not I could finish on line
I have education benefits of $1155 US a month to use for school and my pension of $1400 US a month.
I will have $50k US in savings to use for school and so forth for the kids over the three year period.
Could a family that is frugal already come down for a finite period of time and make it under that scenario.
While this seems a waste of time to some I feel the whole family will benefit. The children will become bilingual. And at the end of the three year period the family can reevaluate the situation and decide if we will want to stay.
I have free medical stateside so with evacuation medical insurance and judicious planning I feel medical will not be a major problem.
As far as exit strategy I will still have assets in the US in the way of real-estate. If I choose to head stateside I have my stateside expenses set so a McDonald's job would let us get by and rebuild.
If we decided to stay in the DR we would have been able to spend three years knowing it was temporary so we would not have rushed in to real-estate and other investments. After three years we should know the lay of the land.
Area I am considering is either STI or SDQ. I like STI never been to SDQ.
BTW wife and kids strait US no overseas experience.
John
I am considering moving to the DR for a period of three or so years. I would like to attend college in the DR so I could be bilingual.
BTW I only need 30 credits to Have a BA in Culinary arts so I should be close to having a stateside degree by then. If not I could finish on line
I have education benefits of $1155 US a month to use for school and my pension of $1400 US a month.
I will have $50k US in savings to use for school and so forth for the kids over the three year period.
Could a family that is frugal already come down for a finite period of time and make it under that scenario.
While this seems a waste of time to some I feel the whole family will benefit. The children will become bilingual. And at the end of the three year period the family can reevaluate the situation and decide if we will want to stay.
I have free medical stateside so with evacuation medical insurance and judicious planning I feel medical will not be a major problem.
As far as exit strategy I will still have assets in the US in the way of real-estate. If I choose to head stateside I have my stateside expenses set so a McDonald's job would let us get by and rebuild.
If we decided to stay in the DR we would have been able to spend three years knowing it was temporary so we would not have rushed in to real-estate and other investments. After three years we should know the lay of the land.
Area I am considering is either STI or SDQ. I like STI never been to SDQ.
BTW wife and kids strait US no overseas experience.
John
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