I'm turning 60 this December, and somewhere along the way I noticed I'd never decided anything about retirement. Not where, not how, not really even whether the version of it I'd always pictured still made sense. So this is me deciding, on camera and in writing, instead of just talking about deciding.
The name is the whole premise. "Sixty" is the age, and more usefully, it's the gift of the time that comes with it. "Unsettled" is doing double duty: not having settled down yet, and the questions that are still genuinely open, like which city, which country, what the day-to-day looks like once the research turns into a life. Plan It. Live It. Decide. is the shape of the whole thing. Figure out the plan, go live inside it long enough to know if it's real, then decide.
A real-time record of researching, testing, and living in a handful of Southeast Asian cities for four to six weeks each: the planning, the reasoning, the failures, and what it feels like to walk around each place once the tourist week is over. There's a shortlist of candidate cities in each of the three countries, pulled from places I've already spent time and the research I've done so far. I'm not naming those shortlists or picking from them here. That happens in the videos, one country at a time. Thailand goes first, and its shortlist is already public: the five cities the Numbers Kit is built around, Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Hua Hin, Pattaya, and Krabi. Which one wins still gets decided on camera. Vietnam and the Philippines get the same treatment once their research catches up.
This is documentation, not content-creator hype. If a choice ever comes down to what's more honest versus what performs better, honest wins. That's the filter for everything, down to the thumbnails. No sponsored segments, no affiliate pressure shaping what gets covered, no manufactured urgency. Shot on a phone, narrated by me, edited imperfectly by me. I'm not AI. This is my own story, not a script.
Cost of living sits above everything else: the goal is a city where a comfortable life pencils out against Social Security, not a stretch budget propped up by savings. After that comes a real fondness for Asian food and culture, and a preference for integrating into a place rather than living inside an expat bubble. I'd rather end up more local than long-term tourist, even where that trades off against convenience.
The research I was doing for myself, itemized budgets, current visa rules, what the first 90 days look like, turned out to be exactly the gap I kept running into online: guides that give you a wide, useless range instead of a real number. So I started turning that research into something usable. The Thailand Retirement Numbers Kit is the first one. More countries are coming as the trip does.