Experiments With The 4-Hour Workweek
Our second home in Thailand
13May2010 Filed under: 4. Liberation Author: Rasmus
It has been quite for a little too long, sorry for that. I am in my 6 month period where I work (I work 6 months per year and have 6 other months where I can work on own ideas, have some vacation with my family, educate myself etc.), and I have had a lot of my own ideas that I i have wanted to pursue at the same time.
So… What have I been up to? Well I am proud to say that according to my lifestyle design, my girlfiend and I have bought a second home in Hua Hin, Thailand.
The plan is to spend 3-4 months i Thailand each year just enjoying eachother and our little princess. Most of the ideas I work on can be done anywhere there is an Internet connection, so why not in some nice wheather, great food, wonderful people. Thailand is an extremely cheap country to live in, and we can live cheaper their even when someone else is cooking, cleaning, washing etc. for us. Geo arbitrage is great!
And we’re gonna live in style. The house has 3 bedrooms (each with own toilet/bath), private pool and even a maids room, so we can have friends visiting. It is brand new, so we’re currently getting a kitchen, curtains and aircon installed.
So consider this inspiration to how to organize your life. The only challenge we now have is how to convince my girlfriends job to let her work “from home” 3-4 months per year. But we’ll work hard on solving it 
With the low interest we’re currently having you’d be amazed on how cheap this is. Hmm… Perhaps I should develop an info product about the whole buying experience?!
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Hi, my name is Rasmus and I live in Denmark. In January 2008 I read the book 
I am in the IT business and saw that some of the stuff Tim mentioned in his book, was clearly possible. And while I will never be as hardcore as Tim is, there were certainly ideas in the book that I could see myself using.
This blog is all about my experiments with Living The Four Hour Work Week - although my weeks are currently longer :)
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Daniel Graversen
May 13th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Cool Congratulations on the new house and lifestyle. It does make a lot of sense to work from there. So when are you moving down there for the first period.
Jan
May 13th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Good for you Rasmus .. No envy here!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats! By the way – I’ll give you a call one of these upcomming days – I’m looking for an “out-sourced” researcher and wanna pick your brain on the topic!
Pål
May 13th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Hola from Buenos Aires mi amigo and congratulations with your new house in Thailand and your current and planned lifestyle, it all looks really great!
Expenses in BsAs are below half of Denmark if you ever consider going here too, it is an awesome place to work remote from. It’s a cool city with very rich hispanic cultural resources, interesting people and great food. If you are into dancing and especially tango and folklore, this is the place to be. Also you will pick up the language relatively fast as the natives tend to forget when you say “No habla Espanol” five seconds later and keep on talking. Been using Elance a lot, and finally found a stable provider with high quality through six months of trial and error.
I still haven’t solved the problem with spending a fixed amount of hours per day (like 3-4) as a consultant. Shortly before deadline the workload seem to explode due to bad time management from the client “oh btw. we also need to do this, and the newsletter is going out tomorrow…”. And this is more the rule than the exception. If you have found a good way to handle these situations, please let me know…
Btw. I release a first draft free service for making backup images flash banners http://www.backupgif.com to spike interest for my product. Feel free to comment on it
All the best,
Pål
Rasmus
May 13th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
@Jan: Call away
@Pål: Sounds great, that’s how life was intended to be lived
I am looking forward to getting the full tour. I’ve only seen the early alpha…. I am however not near Buenos Aires the next couple of months though 
My consultant gigs are more like 3-4 months at a time and typically have to be done on site with the client. But then I at least don’t have to think about client issues when I’m not on contract.
I can see that you also have launched AdMechanic
Alex
June 16th, 2010 at 8:23 am
So how much did you pay for the house?
Rasmus
June 17th, 2010 at 10:38 am
@Alex: I rather not go into numbers here in public, but certainly less than our (smaller) house here in Denmark.
Michael Bodekaer
July 5th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
You should definitely make that info product on the house-buying process! I’d buy it instantly!
Rasmus
July 5th, 2010 at 11:36 pm
@Michael: Hmm then it is perhaps not a too bad idea (once I confirm that the house we bought is actually there – and belong to us
)
Kristian Holte
July 6th, 2010 at 12:58 am
I’m impressed. Cool that you’re actually going forward and taking the plunge. Geoarbitrage rules
Rasmus
July 6th, 2010 at 10:37 am
@Kristian: Well it is a nice and fairly large house, but I am still extremely impressed by the big ass hut you’ve gotten in Bali for project Getaway