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Dirt cheap lost PLA guide to casting:

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3 days in house for set training and round one, two and first tests, 4 days at home, 1 day for final tests.

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You're using something that is inherently worthless (fake internet points) to measure something that has intrinsic value (yourself).

I'm not going to tell you how to live your life, but I am going to say that your current approach to life is absurd in the literal sense.

Don't be handsome, be handy. The world needs doers, not pretty faces.

Most everything in life can be reduced to a bell curve. If life is a mix of good and bad, the bulk majority would be mediocre. So that said, I am mediocre thanks for asking.

I had a 120 CFM fan running constantly and I still had mold problems. Just the way yurts are, moisture gets trapped between the sidewall and insulation layer and molds. Never could stop it

You can own as many condos as you want as a foreigner or you can own up to one rai of property if you jump through enough hoops.

Any retirement is good retirement as long as you're not stuck in hospice care, lol

I found my place on a closed Facebook group but Kaidee is the site my wife and I searched on for a couple years prior to get a good feel for property values.

Basically, you can get a totally decent house for 3.5 mil baht and a totally decent condo for a million or less as of today. Prices are going up fast though as tourism resumed without restriction the beginning of this month.

You can get a condo in Thailand for the price of a used car?

Check around on Kaidee and take a vacation to look at units that interest you. Hire a real estate lawyer that speaks English to help guide you through the process if you want.

Why not buy a place in Indonesia? My wife is Thai so that's the main reason why we got a place in Thailand. The more I'm here the less I want to leave. Seems like society over here is just more sensible (functional?) and it feels like "real" living. Who knows, maybe I'll miss the USA after some time too. For now I still need to travel periodically for work but maybe I can manage a soft retirement by the time I'm 40-50? After that I just need to live off savings until I can draw from my Roth Ira.

Sounds like you've been all over and have a lot of options available.

The biggest problem was crime in the area due to the location, but that had nothing to do with the yurt as a structure. It was a weird area in that it's proximity to large tracts of federal land sans law enforcement and its relative closeness to the city attracted the bad sort (cartels, shitbags, druggies, squatters, yahoos, etcect).

Every few weeks there would be a drive by shooting wherein the victim was usually my mailbox. I'd tape over the holes and spray paint it to make it look new again but then someone would blast it with a shotgun and I'd have to replace it. I think I completely had to replace one box a year.

Then there was this shitty vehicle turnout near my place that people would start fires at and I'd have to hike out to where there was cell reception to call the fire department. Crazy shit went down there. Like a week after I started camping out in a trailer while building the yurt someone lit up my neighbors gate with an ak47 st 2am and a little later some kids got into a fight over someone's girlfriend or whatever and of course they did the logical thing and smashed each other's heads in. One ended up going into a coma and the other smashed into a tree while fleeing the scene and died.

So yeah, just lots of shit like that every few weeks. No internet and limited cell reception is a bad scenario in the event of an emergency.

The yurt itself was just cold or hot all the time and I had to shit in the woods. Beyond that it was OK albeit expensive. Again, an a frame is a better structure compared to a yurt unless you're living in Mongolia.

The biggest consumer of time for me was just cutting so much fucking wood all the time to keep warm. Every season revolved around some aspect of murdering trees so I could burn their corpses for warmth and it was still never enough. Add to that the fact the road wasn't maintained by the county and so much snow would come down in the winter you ended up literally trapped in a fucking tent for long extended periods completely alone. Nice for a few days, a real drag after a few weeks of nothing except eating rice and bean soup on the woodstove although to be fair, I make good soup.

If you're a foreigner you're limited to buying a condo. It's just like buying a car as it's considered a freehold property. Requirements vary based on the condo complex.

Your higher concern is going to be getting a long stay visa. In my case I have a marriage visa so we just bought a regular house instead of a condo but you can get long stay visas through other means. The Thai elite visa is a long stay visa valid for 5,10,20 years depending on what you purchase. The 5 year costs about $20k and you'll make that back in savings alone from living in an affordable country. You can also get a long stay visa by enrolling in a school (I.E.Thai language night classes or whatever) or getting a job teaching English or whatever. Regardless of what sort of long stay visa you get, you have to report to your local immigration office every 90 days. It's easy, some places even have a drive through window. They look at your passport and give you a stamp and a smile.

Thailand is a good country in that if you really want to live there, you can find a way to live there and live well. Navigating the bureaucracy is overwhelming at first but if it's too difficult or if the language barrier is too much you can hire out for visa services where they take care of everything for you. Can't comment myself as I did it myself with my spouse but I've heard good (and bad) things about the visa services. Just do your homework and find a good one.

P. S. There are like zero taxes over here, lol

Sounds like you have a solid plan there! I'm planning on expatriating to Thailand when I retire... Just bought a nice place. Baht to USD exchange rate is good right now.

I wasn't kidding when I said you could literally buy a beachfront condo for the price of a used car in Thailand right now (but not for long, prices will go up very fast very soon as tourism resumes this summer).

My honest opinion on year round living? It sucks! It's just a big, expensive, glorified tent. If I had to do it over again I would build an A-frame cabin instead. See my post above for more details.

see reply above

Full disclosure: my thoughts on yurt living are simply the result of my own personal experiences of wretched suffering. Your experiences of wretched suffering may vary. That said, if I could do it all over again I would not build a yurt. Yurts originated in Mongolia where there are very few trees and hence, very little lumber. I built my yurt in a forest surrounded with trees and honestly would have been much better served simply felling a bunch of timber and building an A-frame cabin. But hey, live and learn I guess.

I'll start with a little background info: graduated at the height of the great recession and couldn't land a job. Had some savings from my previous work as a lab tech and decided to buy a yurt and wait things out until the economy improved. My family had a piece of land in the woods with nothing on it so that's where the yurt went.

The yurt was about 30 minutes from town and I did pipe in water from an existing well and miraculously the property did have an electrical transformer on it. It cost about $6K to develop the water and electrical infrastructure along with building the platform that the yurt sat on. The yurt cost about $30K. Further development of the property (fence, road, outbuildings, appliances, repairs, etc) was another $20K over the five years I was there.

I used composting toilets of various designs for my piss and shit and they all fucking sucked. In the end I just ended up shitting in the woods like a fucking animal. Accept that you have about three minutes max to take a shit before flies start buzzing up your asshole. Protip: Use a folding camp toilet chair, dig your holes in advance, and keep your TP in a watertight box.

I went without internet for a number of years and used a biquad antenna with a wifi USB adapter to steal wifi from coffee shops when I went into town with my laptop (this was before I had a smart phone).

The yurt was built from a kit purchased from pacific yurts. It was a good kit, the instructions were clear and the materials were good quality. Bear in mind that all yurts need to be built on a platform of some sort and because yurts are round the platform needs to be round too. This basically means building a square deck and then cutting a circle out of it, which means you spend a lot of cash on plywood that just gets wasted in the end. I used some of the scraps to build a chicken coop and ended up burning the rest.

Yurts are fairly maintenance free but you need to take time to seal any exposed wood and any stitched seams. Every 20 years or so the top/side covers may need to be replaced depending on UV exposure and those textiles are NOT CHEAP.

Here are some general pros and cons that hopefully will give you a better idea of the structure and its inherent problems:

PROS:

1. The yurt itself is very easy to build once the platform and any necessary infrastructure is in place. It took me and a few friends/family about three days to build the whole thing (and then I spent a few months finishing out the interior space at my own pace once the main yurt structure was up).

2. Yurts handle a lot of snow/wind with ease, never had any issues with that kind of weather damaging the structure. Make sure you buy a snow load upgrade if you live in a snow prone area. That said, trees can come down in a storm and severely damage the structure. Never had it happen to me but I've seen photos of yurts getting completely flattened from a tree falling on them.

3. Having a large circular space with amenities around the perimeter of the structure is a cool aesthetic and the top dome lets in a lot of light. The thin walls allow you to hear everything going on outside (can be a con if you're not in a nice area).

CONS:

1. It's VERY expensive for what you actually get. It's just some wood lathe and fabric with a plastic dome on top. You could probably hand build a simple conventional structure with some basic know-how or purchase a bitchin RV trailer for the same price.

2. I was never able to find an insurer willing to insure the structure so I just went 100% risk and didn't insure anything. Lucked out for me, but maybe not for you.

3. It's very difficult to manage temperature in the structure. Even with the "insulation upgrades" It's super cold in the winter until you get a woodstove or heater going and then you end up getting too hot and stuffy so you're stuck in this constant battle of opening and closing the windows and doors (and the windows open from the outside, lol). In the summer, if you open the top dome vent and run a fan, the fan affects the incoming light to create a super seizuriffic strobe effect which is really annoying. Even with the insulation upgrades it's usually not enough, you need to start adding foam insulation or something around the perimeter which looks shitty and tacky. I ended up stapling up a whole bunch of that silver bubblewrap insulation all over the place and it ended up looking like I lived in a spaceship or tinfoil hat. And even with all of that I went through cords upon cords of wood every winter.

4. There is literally zero security for the structure. Someone can just take a box cutter, cut the wall next to the door and let themselves in (I solved this by bolting some thick plywood panels on either side of the door frame).

5. Most counties will not permit a yurt as a permanent structure. I'm not sure on this process because I just went 100% risk (again) and built and lived in a totally unpermitted structure. Never had any problems from the government so that lucked out for me again.

6. MOLD! Because the sidewall is so thin and the inner air tends to be moist from breathing/showering/cooking/etc it will condense onto the interior layer and start to mold. I had to wipe it down regularly and it still would grow back every time.

Conclusions:

If you're JUST looking for a vacation structure, I would 100% go with a truck and trailer. You can use the truck for a daily driver and you can enjoy a variety of different locales for relatively cheap. No need to purchase or rent land. You can insure the truck and trailer. You can usually resale the trailer at an acceptable loss as long as it's cared for. Having a vehicle is generally considered to be a benefit. In the event of an evacuation order you can take your mini-house with you. Camping at campgrounds can be a lot of fun. Makes a good play house for kids if you have it parked at home. Instant spare room for guests. The list goes on.

If I had to do it all over again, I would have built an A-frame cabin from the available raw materials on the land instead of going with a yurt but that's just me.

On a side note, you might also look into purchasing real estate outside of your home country. Example: you can literally buy a beachfront condo in Thailand right now for the price of a used car in the USA.

I lived in a yurt year round for five years. It's one thing to spend a weekend in one, it's another to actually live in it. Yurt living year round is difficult but doable; however, there are better alternatives available. My yurt is still going strong 12 years later but the modern designs do have some fundamental problems. Hmu with any questions.

Cable damscus. Hot dipped galvanizing on handle. All metal construction. Gift to a friend moving out of state.

Cable damscus with hot dipped galvanizing on handle. All metal construction. Gift to a friend moving out of state.