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.
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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.
They should stay home and fix their own country.
Hi, I’m in the country and would like to leave.
What are your suggestions for me to fix it? Please be explicit.
Where you from again?
That’s the MAGA stance about immigrants as well
Nah, most of them didn’t break it.
Blaming individuals for institutional failings outside of their control won’t help anything.
That said, US immigration lawyers seem to be doing very well combating the trump admin right now.
Even if you didn’t break it, you still have responsibility to fix it. Or do you also passively watch a house burning down? Society takes effort, not walking away. Knowing the US these escapees probably never voted, or for Trump even. And then they come over here and drive the rents up…. No, please stay away.
Happy to report that if you did not break it, you are not responsible for breaking it.
Blaming individuals for institutional failings out of their control is unhelpful.
Plenty of travelers vote.
Well when you discover that the “land of the free/home of the brave” is mostly false advertising while “liberty and justice” only applies if you’re a richwhiteman, then that requires a bit of a revaluation of your country.
Take an even closer look, and you find that the USA is just what was once called a “third world country” with just some better branding. Of course folks that could would try to get out.
The “third-world country” part is why I live outside of the US, despite the archaic phrase. A lot of US citizens don’t realize the raw deal they got or the dire straits they’re living in compared to citizens in most other countries.
Your comment is busting through rule 2 and wading through rule 1, can you edit it to sound informative while remaining civil and accurate? Let me know if you’d like to and and I’ll restore your comment for an edit.
