alt Hacker NewsA friend of mine took this route in the 70's. It was not only relatively cheap but once you arrived in India you could live off the very generous UK Unemployment Benefit for a very long time as the exchange rate was incredible and the price of basics extremely cheap. He did it for several years before moving on to Japan. So he didn't need to take any time 'off' :)
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nonethewiser • last Friday at 4:03 PM
He just collected unemployment while vacationing for months? Was that fraud or just how the system worked?
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hexbin010 • last Friday at 3:40 PM
> but once you arrived in India you could live off the very generous UK Unemployment Benefit for a very long time
Oh, so your friend is the reason the extremely generous £391/mo unemployment benefit stops if you leave the country even for one day now ! :)
Exchange rates are still incredible and a lot of foreigners do this in India. In places like Goa, HP, UK etc.