40 Years ago in Canada my business partner and I started building a 4,400 sq. ft. luxury mansion. I wanted to build 2 semi detached houses, close in the shells and then finish one side and sell, to fund finishing the second one. The start of mortgage free living.
But my partner would only agree to the build if we built the mansion. He was to look after the sizable landscape business we had established, while I did the build. Well I built the mansion, but with interest rates going thru the roof and the wrong location it was a financial disaster. I should have said "You build the mansion I am off to Thailand" should have- could have- would have.......
At that time Pattaya in Thailand was turning from a desolate fishing village into a thriving tourist city, now second only to Bangkok 100 miles to the North. I didn't even know where Thailand was on the map. If only I had taken a vacation there instead of Mexico or Florida it would have changed my life.
By investing the same effort and expertise into a Thai enterprise as I did the Canadian experience and working on my own, I am confident I could have built up a tremendous landscape construction company, specializing in Hotel Landscape installations.
My first objective would be to get to know the developers and landscape architects and work out deal(s) for referrals. Once started the installations would be of the best quality specs allowed and finished on time. It would not have taken long in that booming market to build up a reputation and ride the boom.
I would have built my own house (not a mansion) and who knows maybe I would have gotten me a nice little wife and started a family. The Thai girls are so pretty just as are the boys.
By now I would either be dead or sitting back on a sun soaked beach with grand kids swarming over me.
Like I said I can dream.