OK, so I want opinions, advice and whether you think it's unreasonable....
I am an 'older' female by MumsNet standards...I could be retired in a few years. Have travelled a lot, so I know the world. Now single after many years of marriage, family grown up and left home. I have a comfortable job which I could keep beyond retirement age, nice place (which comes with the job so no place of my own), not a big income but with bills paid I could save up a reasonable amount.
Thinking - quite seriously - of giving everything up and studying abroad. I would be an older student but I love studying, I could do a masters degree in a Nordic country, such courses are taught in English. I think it would be a good way to ease myself into another country, maybe get part-time (probably menial) work, retire there eventually.
Is this a daft thing to do at my age? I have tried to look at the practicalities but it isn't easy finding out information, such as what would happen to my state pension, what if I wanted to come back to the UK and so forth. At my age, it isn't like being young...a younger person comes back, gets another job and gets on with life. A pensioner has fewer options!
I'm asking on here because I feel you'd all think of lots of things I haven't even considered yet....AIBU?
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WorldWideWanderer · 30/05/2017 12:48
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