In Reply to: Me too posted by mamaharley on Saturday, 28. March 2009 at 07:21 Bali Time:
payable to Australians living (or loving) in Bali. I am a long way away from qualifying for this but I have friends living here and receiving the Australian pension.
The Australian sickness benefit is also payable to Australian who have made Bali their full time home. However the folk receiving this have to return to Australia every 13 weeks to re-qualify.
Depending on what type of house you have, the rent on that may go a long way towards your living expenses in Bali.
As a guide I basically stopped work (retired) at 45. This was 11 years ago. I planned on an annual budget of $25,000 and have lived a very good lifein Indonesia since then.
As with most people the financial crash has hurt, so I have just cut my beer intake from +24 a day to -24.