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I've been traveling for about 13 years now consistently after selling a financial services business in my home country. If you want any advice for anything at all id love to help!
In particular people looking for motivation, tips, and tricks/advice for travel feel free to ask here! XD
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>>2855811
>>2855815
>Become an English teacher in a shithole
This is definitely an option but few places remain that you can work without a degree. Here's a few though:
>Cambodia
>Laos
>Ethiopia
>Peru
>Bolivia
>Almost everywhere in Central America
Otherwise, you can work in timeshare, become a dive instructor, or work for a pittance in hostels
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>>2855820
You have to just arrive there, print out your CV and go around the schools. Gibson Schools in Addis Ababa hire people with no degree (I used to work there).
If you really can't handle the walk the streets method, look on Google Maps for language schools and apply. But you honestly can't beat the fool proof show up and JBW.
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>>2855833
I did a motorbike trip across the country once. You can stop anywhere and kids come out if the bushes with their hands out "money! money". I'd take out like 20c and all the hands would snatch at it, adults too, sending the coins flying. Some places I'd drive through the kids would throw stones at me because I'm not stopping and raining money on them. JBW is strong af ofc but it's also a really religious country, so you can find a little virgin cutie and marry her if you want a hot wife and low-IQ children.
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>13 years
Im literally closer to 13 centuries.
>>2858014
Nah, it was 20 solar-cycles ago, now its largely modernized to shit with some places be obscenely overpriced for cheap-o accomidations and such.
Just went to Ubud, Bali, and although Ive mostly had my fill of SEA its value was top notch. I paid $252/month for a basic room in the middle of the area, walking distance to decent resturants. I didnt do anything "tourism" though, not in the mood for that. $100/month visa was well worth it. Good burgers and French resturants too.
Vietnam was the best, 20 years ago, but now who knows. Anthony Bourdain said it was his favorite country for a reason, it was a lot like that for me too. When I stopped being a "tourist" and became a wanderer.
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>>2858118
You never go far from airports, that's why you say the region is modernized. Apart from pavement, smartphones and infinity motorbikes, most of tropical Asia by area remains more primitive than anywhere besides Africa and Afghanistan/Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan.
>$100/month visa
A six-month stay in India cost $40, and it doesn't rain for half the year here. You can't live at 10,000' elevation in Indonesia, but here you can if the heat becomes too much.
>monthly rental
You're letting a landlord dictate the term of your stay in exchange for a couple hundred dollars in savings. Not worth it. Every day I alone decide whether to move on or stick around. Attempts at persuasion are futile.
>good burgers
That one I give you. Indian burgers are utter trash.
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>>2858282
>You never go far from airports
I did the...[sigh] I wrote why but you didnt read shit...
>>2858118
>it was 20 solar-cycles ago
Its not remote, anywhere, in SEA, without an island hop by boat only.
>that's why you say the region is modernized.
When I visited Cambodia TWENY YEARS AGO there was ONLY dirt roads, none of them named. Now it has ChiCom cities for a tech hub front for international fraud schemes.
>Afghanistan/Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan
Been to two of the three, but I would consider both better because theyre not "modernized for tourism and foreigners", though Tajikistan would be more "Soviet Bloc" flavored, like Hanoi, Vietnam.
>A six-month stay in India cost $40
Trash, youre letting the visa's low cost sway your tour's enjoyment. I didnt need to travel to different towns to find access to things I enjoyed (namely decent resturants since I wasnt "touring" the country). Ukranian, French, American.
>doesn't rain for half the year here
As if thats a bad thing?
>but here you can if the heat becomes too much.
So its too hot but the cool rain is too wet?
>letting a landlord dictate the term of your stay
And your visa dictates you will eat germ filled Indian slop for six months, you will take Doxycycline or shit yourself. Very persuasive. Eating it until you stop getting sick isnt a flex.
>and French resturants too
I found a couple Russian places in Goa but its not a big thing there. Otherwise the food was terrible and everything about it is culinary heresy. Boiling vegetables for 40 minutes to make slop-soup destroys nutrition. Letting everything become room temperature is bacteria cultivating.
This wasnt about "primative", it was about "good". Commercialization. At a certain level the service industry no longer "needs" the tourists and they start to reject tourist expectations, SEA is making that change.
Whats "good"?
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>>2858014
If you want an off-the-cuff adventure where youre a foreigner in a country where foreigners are rare, go Central Asia, like a Kyrgystan to Azerbaijan kind of tour. You will get VERY little help with things making it a true "adventure" that will mature you in the process.
SEA can be fully booked online and totally paid for with a credit card. The tour above bring cash and expect plans to change.
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>>2858118
>Vietnam
Oh, and the local food was worth it here, with other places in the region being mediocre in comparison. Ive had better Thai food in the States than in Thailand.
Pho elsewhere wasnt as good, the herb plate was no where as interesting, the coffee is unique, the sandwiches were the best, I doubt elsewhere can remake them like they do at home.