This community’s really taking off! The tens of you subscribed here must be doing a lot more advocacy than I imagined to have influenced such a mass exodus.
Jokes aside, living abroad is a very comfortable lifestyle and it makes perfect sense with so many crises in the US why the push to live abroad is happening.
Browse the comFAQ for a quick rundown on how to start traveling and please reach out if you have any following questions about how to travel and live abroad.
If only I could be one of 'em.
Where would you like to go?
No money, so it doesn’t matter.
You speak English, so money is the easiest problem to solve. Any other if-onlys?
Money is not an easy problem to solve…
As far as hurdles to traveling go, money is the easiest one for English speakers to solve since there are 1.5 billion English language learners in the world; 1 in 5 people on the planet are looking for conversation partners and teachers on and offline. In addition, as you as you are a traveler, your cost of living plummets.
It costs $500 USD per month to live in most countries(rent, utilities, groceries, wifi/data). if you teach online at $10 an hour, which is on the low side of online teaching, you’ll need 50 hours per month, or~13 hours of work per week. 2 hours a day, five days a week, or 6 hours a day twice a week and you’ll have paid for your monthly expenses, the rest of the time is your own.
If you teach in person, you can make a lot more($2000-10000 USD per month working 20-40 hours per week), begin accruing passive income for early reirement and still travel.
SE Asia, lot of young Americans hustling in Cambodia and lot of older Americans because they’ve been priced out of the US. Visas are the easiest in the area, as well as them running the US Dollar
YT is awash.
But I don’t want to live in Asia… Has that part of the world even legalized weed yet, or are most countries still executing people for simple possession over there? What about psychedelics? Ketamine?
As fucked up as America is, at least we’re finally starting to develop reasonable recreational drug laws.