This is my first post here, so hi! First a quick introduction:
I'm soon to turn 26, and I live with my fiancée who is 27. I've been working for a few years and my fiancée just landed her first job. We have no mortgages, we've both worked every summer through high school and university and we both have a really healthy savings. In fact, I'm just over "1/3 FI" already, so nothing really to change about the mustachianism here, only to keep on working on it!
Huge thanks to this whole community! It feels so amazing have this mindset, it really brings all sorts of possibilities with it! Which is why I'm posting...
So we've decided to move to Rwanda in slightly less than two years. The plan is to let up
some of the FI savings to instead let that amount of money fund a year in Rwanda. Essentially we're postponing our "FI date" about a year, allowing us to take this "mini retirement" in two years! The budget for all of this can be seen on our blog (link below).
However, all of this poses some practical problems. Can we get a year off our works, and will it be possible to rent out our flat in the mean time? Ideally we'd also do some work while in Rwanda to give a bit more space in our budget. If so we'd need work permits and extended visas and stuff. Also, we've never been to Africa at all before. Basically, we'd really like
any kind of feedback on this whole concept, and we'd love to get in touch with anybody who's lived abroad (maybe in Rwanda??), or maybe someone who has good insight in prices in Rwanda, or maybe even a Rwandese mustachian?
If interested, please read some posts of our newly started blog, and know that any comments will be really appreciated, here or in the blog! The blog is not really about the FI aspect of this at all, so those kinds of discussions might be better suited here. But then again, I suppose this kind of a thing will be quite similar to achieving FI which is why I imagine many people here might have some valuable comments.
By the way, the blog is bilingual, every post is in both Swedish and English.
The link, From Sweden to Rwanda:
https://fstrwanda.blogspot.com