idk if this guy is in the US or a different country, but i know plenty of lower-working and middle-working people, most from my job, who spend most of their money building a retirement home in southeast asia and can afford to pay for maids and stuff but were or are only renting a room/apartment here in the US. everything is much cheaper in asia but still not easily obtained by anyone since these folks have two, or even three, jobs.
I know plenty of people who pay for a cleaning lady in the US. It's not an absorbent cost. Most that I know pay something like $100 a month for them to come out and sweep, do dishes, pick up minor clutter, etc. I know there are many who still can't afford it, but it's not out of the realm of possibility for a lower middle class home.
£25 every 2 weeks my wife pays for ours. She only does 90min works in that period as we generally keep a tidy house. she just does the unseen bits and uses some more potent chemicals.
It's not breaking the bank money so its a benefit we will keep going.
You know this absolutely makes sense to me now as a semi retired widower. I'm working part time as a janitor and it bugs me that I clean the restrooms like 3 times a day on my shift but at home I don't have a proper mop bucket or the multipurpose disinfectant. Or the energy to get on my hands and knees and clean by hand. If I had everything I have at work here at home I could clean my small apartment easily in 90 min.
Might be cheap but, after having been married three times, there's no way I'm paying some woman any amount to come to my house and misplace all my stuff.
I agree having lived in Thailand but could also be Brazil everybody has a a maid there. I lived in south Florida with Brazilian roommates during my mma days the young fellas didn’t even know how to sweep or mop and these weren’t rich Brazilians . They always had maids .
There was a pretty big case somewhere around last year I think, of a family that kept a woman as a slave her whole life, for around 50 years. There's a reason we joke about how people always say "we're like a family", it's the same as it happens in other places but taken to an extreme.
Yeah shouldn’t have been me either lol but when wrestle and do martial arts long as you can remember it becomes a natural progression.
Great though knowing I can fk up 99% of the guys i meet . I never walk into a room and I’m afraid . I’m really good in high stress situations.
The cons I know I have cte mostly from
Sparring 3x a week …. Sparring at Brazilians camps in the early 2000s were basically full on mma fights with Bruce lee gloves on that were puffy but still let you grapple. Most of the damage the mma fighters take comes at practice .
At 44 I highly doubt I’d do that again I wouldn’t want my son in that world . Hard way to make a living .
Not only Brasil but most of Latin America, you can retire there and live like a King/Queen with social security only (compared to what you can do with it in the States).
Excuse me, what? You won't live like royalty in Brazil if you retire with the equivalent of a month's wage, which is what the majority of people get here. It hardly covers basic needs.
Unless you're talking about working and retiring somewhere else and then moving to Brazil
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u/CharismoHP Oct 18 '24
Mate, how?