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.
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.
tldr medical use and unenforced laws exist across a lot of Asia, and there are 68 countries globally with legalized or decriminalized weed you could live in.
longer explanation:
Thailand fully decriminalized weed several years ago, but the new health minister restricted weed to medical use late last year. Trivial prescription to get.
Anxiety? Trouble sleeping? Go to a same-day clinic, pay 10-30 USD, you’ll be out in 15 minutes with your prescription. Lasts 30 days and is renewable; your annual prescription cost is offset in a couple weeks by the low cost of living in Thailand($100-400 rent, $3 AYCE buffets, $5 phone plans).
There are tons of dispensaries and weed cafes across Thailand. Also, Thailand is amazing in general, Better healthcare than the US, great massages, amazing art, great food, beautiful beaches and forests, great place to live.
If you are against Asia specifically, recreational weed’s fully legal in 8 countries, decriminalized in about 48 additional countries(like the US), so you have 56 countries to choose from around the world, most of which offer low-cost high-quality living and unregulated weed.
About 10 other countries have medical cannabis available but recreational is not, so you have 68 countries to get high in.
Recreational drugs that are illegal in the US but still available are available in every country I’ve been in. Ketamine was the club drug in China while I was teaching there. Yunnan is famous for its weed-grandmas, who harvest it from the mountains(where you can harvest it too if you like).
China has some of the strictest drug policies in the world; people smoked weed and did drugs around me pretty much all 6 years I was in Beijing. This isn’t a recommendation so much as an illustration that since drugs are available in China, they’re available in every country, often cheaper and with a lot less trouble than in the US or China. People smoked weed and did drugs around me pretty much all 6 years I was in Beijing.
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.
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.
They should stay home and fix their own country.
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.
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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.
That’s the MAGA stance about immigrants as well
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?
