>be me>m18>still going to school>live shit life, boring and monotonous, day after day, depressed>only few superficial friendships, little if any connection to family, dislike distanced and work- and efficiency-focused culture here in Germany>thinking about moving to Finland>"happiest country">EU member state>welfare state>nordic countries usually score best in pretty much every ranking>chance to get away from it all, start anew there, independently>have good education, can probably get somewhat well-paid job here to begin saving money>probably financial backing from parents/grandparents' estate>maybe sidejob for the time beingComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2660836>poor>median household wealth is over 100kAlso:>wealth of over half million, which is basically a decent apartment/house near the capitalUh huh... ?
>>2661143Look at this horrific human rights violation, how can finns live like that? How do they survive?
>>2661143are you trolling or just retarded? if the house is cheap it's in a horrible condition and will cost enormous amount time and money to renovate. there will be tons of red tape and labor costs are very highhere is a 2-bedroom apartment 5km from the city centerthis is the price you pay if you don't want to be surrounded by somalis and iraqis
Don't listen to the whiners in this thread. Things are fine in this country, so people constantly whine about minor things. Life is good in Finland if you get higher education and learn the language. You can survive with English too, but Finnish or Swedish is required for citizenship. You'll find other German people especially in universities.People are generally very friendly, you encounter openly angry and hostile people only on the internet.
>>2661144Just save up 50k and the bank will give you a loan. Or is working and getting loans an alien concept to you?
What are the most dangerous feeling places you guys have traveled to?
>>2661440How do I get a job like that? Seems perfect for me.I have no family except for mom who lives in another state, no wife/gf, no children (big surprise on 4chan right). I wasn't in the military though, is that a requirement?
>>2661512Security clearance is your ticket, then get with a contracting company with a job skill you have. Some sponsor security clearances. Looking up big government contractors and look on their websites for overseas positions.
>>2661345>Fucking Africa.yeah I was in zanzibar this year, it is really shameless. These guys try to be your friends and act personal and homie and care free then the next day come with some sob story about how they need a little bit of money.
>>2661081San Salvador, El Salvador felt a tad dangerous, as did Salvador, Brazil as soon as you left the "tourist" bits.Someone tried to rob me in Managua, Nicaragua. I found parts of the Philippines unnerving and didn't like exploring after dark in Panama City past the tourist zone.I was tear gassed in Istanbul but that was just unlucky as I accidentally ended up near a protest.
>>2661081I visited Jackson Mississippi to volunteer during their water crisis and attempted to get a fried bologna sandwich from this shop I’d seen on YouTube travel channels. I witnessed two sets of vehicles with guys hanging out of the windows firing fully automatic weapons at each other. Neither could hit the other car but bullets were spraying all over the place. I hit the ground and I heard bullets ricocheting off the walls and popping on the ground around me. I will NEVER go back to Jackson Mississippi again.
Hows Mexico City? Thinking about going there for two weeks to a monthHows the mogging scene there?
>>2658558All depends on the rains. I think it rained early this year. >>2661146I only got robbed by the police in Mexico, when I foolishly slept in my car on a quiet city street, got woken up by cops, and handed them a bag containing my wallet and other personal items for "inspection" as demanded. My business dealings with Mexicans on the street were often curt, but I never really worried about getting ripped off, overcharged or scammed.
>>2661224Neat - thanks for the map!While I got your attention, besides Chichen Itza - what other ruins in the Yucatan region are worth seeing? I have to be somewhat selective.
>>2661302I have been robbed by the cops twice down there, saw a women get her car stolen at gun point with her children inside, two beaners also tried to rob me at knife point. Fuck mexico and fuck mexicans.
>>2658146>Wanna go to Mexico CityMexican here. Why?>The mogging sceneAs in getting mugged or as in getting laid?Getting your shit stolen is very likely if you walk around flaunting. Getting laid is whateverBut in general, why would you go to CDMX? It's the closest we have to a Hive City in the world. Cyberpunk dystopian with all the shitty parts and no cool bionic upgrades. Food is expensive and shitty. Maybe if you're gonna be on the really really expensive part of the city rubbing elbows with narcos.
>>2658146Mexico has cool places, beautiful people and good foodJust not in Mexico City, it's a Skaven den piece of shit and every other place detects when their people is nearby because how they speak and walk, always with double intentions. They city is unironically run by narcos, commies and jews, actual jews, and the air is toxic to any human. Not to the DFctuoso, because they already adapted to cholera and food poisoning, so air with lead won't kill them, just drop their IQ levels once again, but won't notice either.And it's a metropolis, has everything you want from a city, yet you don't really want to go anywhere or can't. 3 hour drives is the norm. Moving through the metro is the best bet.If you really REALLY have to go you don't walk into the police. Never do contact with them. If you get robbed maybe you could contact somebody but 90% they're not gonna help not because they are corrupt (they are) but because they're dumb asses and the worst kind of people are CDMX police officers.
Am I the only guy who likes to travel abroad and try local McDonald's stuff? Pic related, Banana Pie in Brazil
I like to do this. I had a Cheddar Wave in the airport at a Burger King in Portugal. I got a double so it was>2 fried chicken patties>2 slices of American cheese>2 slices of tomatoes>A large cheese curd patty made of Velveeta like cheeseIt made me constipated for 24 hours but it was quite tasty. I was a little disappointed there was not cheese sauce on it, it looked like there was. I guess they were thinking biting into the cheese curd patty was like a "wave". Maybe they simply forgot to put the cheese sauce on?
>>2657683>What do you think street food in India is?Having just visited there: good. You can get a proper meal from some street food vendors. And yes, I know you have some meme webms queued up. I don't care.
When I was dating a Jewish girl I visited Israel. Found out it’s kind of taboo to eat meat and cheese together. So instead of cheese the default is hummus. Hummus burgers ain’t bad though.
>>2655068Samurai Mac!https://youtu.be/oE4sdYHTUh8
>>2655068Fun fact: In Chicago, there is a McDonald's that serves some of the international/global food items. It’s known as the "Global menu" McDonald's.
thai food vs viet food which is better ???
>>2661362Universities are probably your best best. Try Ton Duc Thang, RMIT, UEH, FTU, Hutech…depends on when they’re hiring though
>>2661370Is it the parents fault or what?
>>2661399I regularly post these threads in /asean/ inviting them here because these threads suck and have the same primative shit posters here who haven't left since 2017
already have multiple dates lined up after my first night in Da Nang, white dork status AVOIDED
>>2661327>>2661368Vietnamese in Vietmam don't practice traditional culture either. Look at their sky high abortion rates.
Here's mine for a 3 week vacation in Catalonia + AndorraAndorra (3 days): Go hiking/climbing/cycling in the mountainsLleida (2 days): Check out the city for one day, then go hiking in Mont-Rebei GorgeTarragona (4 days): Roman ruins, the beach, vineyards, monestaries. Really a fuck ton to do.Girona (5 days): There's even more here. First of all the city itself was a filming location for Game of Thrones.Costa Brava has so many beautiful towns, too many to list, most notably Cadaques which is near Cap De Creus.Olot provides a natural park with inactive volcanoes.Barcelona (5 days): Has enough to explore in the city without travelling out.
>>2659727Interesting choice of going to Kyrgystan, don't know what there is to see there except rural villages
this was my plan for 3 days in Rome. I am a very obsessive travel planner and will do everything in advance (apart from picking restaurants)>>2659720good luck parking in hallstatt then lmao
>>2660383i.e. I make a document like this for every trip with details
>>2660383>good luck parking in hallstatt then lmaoI won't park in the town itself lol, but there are plenty of free parking areas at various distances from town
>>2659614I did a day-trip to Andorra from Barcelona and it is doable if you go early and plan something interesting to do during siesta time.
I'm going to Berlin for the first time this month. Any tips or recommendations? I'm already pretty set on visiting historical sites and the museum island but I'm clueless when it comes to restaurants, bars, cafes and the public transport. Would also like to know the best student type sports bars. Also, is it safe enough to walk around at night?
>>2660574Study the public transit system before you go. Stay at a hotel or hostel near a major U Bahn or tram stop. It’s a big city but easy to get around quickly.
>>2660574Canal boat tours. Potsdam. A shit load of museums. So much history.
>>2660576Berlin is cheap when it comes to dining out, compared to other major cities in Europe.Tip one is pretty good, but i stayed in arguably the most unsafe district, Wedding, and it was still fairly safe compared to Paris.>>2660574If you plan to go to clubs, prepare to gaymaxx, preferably have a male friend and hold hands when arriving at the line.
There's a few underground tours you can take (WW2 air raid bunker, Berlin Wall tunnels) but I did the nuclear bunker which was really cool. We met at the ticket booth and walked through the street to an unassuming door on a bridge that went down to it. Something different
Thank you all for the recommendations. Any bars/restaurants specifically you rate highly?.>>2660580Yeah Potsdam looks really nice, I'm going to visit Sansoucci 100%. If the weather stays good I'll go to the lakes and chill out there.
is this a thing? I was thinking asia would be where its at, lots of rice and soup and vegetables.also I've read a few times american food is so toxic that people feel different/better after eating somewhere else for a while. could this be legit or they just feel good because they're on vacation? sorry if this thread is better suited to /fit/
>>2659352Thanks glowie for confirming that US life expectancy is in fact even lower than statistically represented because of all the jews, blacks, and democrats lying about who died.
>>2657615Still better than crypto ads, I guess
Cuba.You will loose a lot of weight and fast.
>>2657601After several trips to Europe and Asia, I’ve concluded that walkable cities unironically keep you from getting fat. Just 1 mile walked is about 100kcals. You do three miles a day, every single day, and that’s like 30lbs in a year. Over the course of a lifetime, and it makes a big fucking difference.Not a coincidence that Bongistan, the most car dependent country in (or not in lol) Europe is also the fattest.
>>2657601and where will you travel to keep the weight off? because you will just gain it back in your country if you need to travel to another country to lose it
I am in Chiang Mai Thailand for a month, what should I do here?
What is your ethnicity and general age?
>>2661409Hapa (half white, half chinese) american25
>>2661407rent a scooter. ride out to tiger village. you like tennis? check out the stadium complex.
walk around and street interview roasties using a tiny mic on a stick.
Eat noodles, especially Khao soi, which is better than its Burmese ancestor (kaukswe).
Why is Poland so underrated? Why do tourists pick even the (imho) ugly dilapidated shithole of Budapest over any city in Poland? There's nothing to see in Budapest except the parliament building... and even it is p boring I mean it's just a single feature repeated like 1000 times. And there's nothing glorious about it or anything of Hungary's history of subjugation first by mongols then by Turks then by Austrians...I think the erstwhile capital of the Most Serene Sarmatian Republic, Kraków, mogs both budapest AND prague. Prague is cool because the old town is huge, but it doesn't even have a market square or any landmark.Kraków even has an Art Deco-inspired MODERN skyscraper (Unity Tower)
>>2659457i think breslav is better
>>2659457i lived there for years but only in warsaw. people are incredibly cold socially, the men are all whiny cunts, their english is terrible, their language is useless to learn, the food is awful, and you’re not close to driving or taking a train to anything nice. so no one goes there unless they have to. the expats are a small group and theyre all miserable, even the polish americans that speak polish cant wait to leave. the only person that enjoyed it was that pickup artist in poznan but i guess he had a thing for polish girls. theyre pretty mid, their noses are too big. huge asses thoughwarsaw is extremely walkable and clean, and its beautiful with all the parks, and zabkas on every corner have good food and snacksmaybe tricity would be better to live for an expat, but if you work remote theres just way better options. vienna for example you could make the same arguments about people being cold, but they speak better english and learning german is actually worth a fuck, the food is better, you’re a short drive from a ton of beautiful cities and landscapes, blahblahblah
>>2661207>the food is awfulhard disagree, 13 out of 100 is bretty good https://www.tasteatlas.com/best/cuisines
>>2661207>ViennaBeautiful but doesn't Austria levy a 90% tax for high earners?
>>2661207>t.
My friend found a cheap round trip flight to Dubai in June ($550) and we decided to yolo a 20 day trip.The thing is, we're both middle class people and I'm having a ton of regret now about spending 20 days in Dubai and how expensive and hot it's going to be - especially since looking into it, Dubai just seems like a worse version of Las Vegas.It's too late now to back out, I could take the L on the plane ticket (we haven't booked any accommodation) but I don't want to fuck over my friend. Is budget travelling Dubai possible? And is it even worth visiting?
I audibly laughed when I read this, holy fuck OP.You can salvage this easy by going to Oman. Musandam is the most beautiful place on earth, after that you can get a boat to Muscat, rent a car, and spend 2 weeks driving around a real country.
>>2660022we got VPNs you fucking cretin.but also fuck this place into the deepest pit of hell.Can't wait until I'm a BJJ coach in Miami. Not ideal location but it's what's on the table for now.
>>2659814I've stayed in dubai up to 3 months at a time. You can get a cheap apartment on airbnb and then choose your own adventure daily. Just realize almost everything except housing and laborer tier food is going to be expensive. The most interesting part about Dubai for an adult man is probably the fact that its an international melting pot of sex workers from all around the globe. You can sample an absolutely enormous variety of women and try out things you would otherwise never get a chance to. I mean were talking women from places like kazakhstan, indonesia, colombia, brazil, bangladesh, pakistan, ukraine, armenia all within walking distance of each other.You've got bars with mostly eastern euro/soviet bloc chicks. Bars with south asian chicks. Bars with east asian chicks. Bars with russians/Ukrainians only. Bars with africans only. Bars with a mix.You've also got some of the most beautiful (and expensive) workers in the world who can provide amazing service, but it will be unforgettable. As for actual things to do doing the say its just shopping, food, and amusement park type of things. Stuff like skydiving bunjee jumping is popular also. Desert bbq's are popular but its literally just drive out to the desert and bbq on a sand dune and eat under a tent. Fun with friends only.
>>2659860Don't listen to this retard. I rented a Land Crusier for like €50 per-day in Kman, drove all over and wild camped in summer (July). Incredible experience. Do exactly that - UAE, Oman, KSR. You have stumbled upon an amazing journey
>>2661442*Oman
My expectations were low, but holy crap. As a foreigners, I literally can't do anything here. Can't buy a sim card, can't open any useful aps, can't buy train tickets online... can't even pay for a KFC burger at the Hangzhou airport because I couldn't pay with Wechat pay! holy shiet bros. Why is China so hostile to foreigners right now?
>>2660870Weixin, get it right
>>2658135 it's absolutely reasonable but the way you make it about yourself sounds like you're going to try to cockblock me if i'm the one successful with bitches
>>2660988 Maybe I should have taken my time writing my recruitment post, including some research about events that'd be cool to attend, and consider the voice of my writing more.I guess I shouldn't of had low expectations for it happening, and treated this more seriously
>>2660386Shanghai is one of the biggest cities in the world. It has literally everything a consumer could want. So why don't you narrow it down to things you like doing?
我的期望很低,但天哪。作为一个外国人,我在这里真的无能为力。买不到sim卡,打不开有用的ap,网上买火车票……连杭州机场的肯德基汉堡都付不了钱,因为无法用微信支付!神圣兄弟为什么现在中国对外国人如此敌视?
I got offered completely free trip for 7 days.Never been in US. I guess going to gun range as European would be cool. It apart from that I'm out of ideas.
>>2661430>Lists no budget>Lists no interestsOk, since you gave us absolutely nothing to work with I am going to give you some basic ass advice, blame yourself if it isn't good advice for you since you included basically no information to work with. Fuck you and people who makes these kind of threads.1. "Things to do" is going to depend on your interests. But, you didn't include anything for anyone to work with, and I am not interested in spoonfeeding a lazy retard who can't read a stcky. So ask google.2. Highly recommend renting a car. Houston does not have much public transportation, and it isn't built for walking. You'll spend much more in ubers/taxis than it will cost to rent a car. Just the ride to and from the airport is about the price of two days car rental. The Uber/taxi to Space Center is also a days car rental. Houston is an absolutely enormous place. 4 times the population and 4 times the physical size of Auckland.
How do people justify flying business or first class? How are people able to spend like +$10k on a flight? Wouldn't that money be better spent on the actual trip? Rich people really live in a totally different world man...
>>2661182Because their employer is paying for it, hence "business"
>>2661182>>2661186>>2661187Skill issue.t. Just booked a first class ANA flight ($15k ticket price) for about $50
>>2661182>how do people that have a lot of money pay for expensive things????
>>2661182>How are people able to spend like +$10k on a flight? Wouldn't that money be better spent on the actual trip?for people that can afford it this is not an either/or situation
>>2661182>Wouldn't that money be better spent on the actual trip?I honestly don't care if I blow 10k on flights and 5k or 50k on the trip. I book what i want and don't look at prices. It makes no difference.
Anybody know anything about chartering a boat? I'm taking my wife to New Zealand, he sister is coming with. I thought it would be really cool to charter a boat overnight to get up the coast. But I could settle for a day trip if it's cost prohibitive. Google is telling me anywhere from $1,000-$1,000,000, so no idea where to start. Anybody have experience with this kind of shit?
>>2660955If you want to brag about having a wife there are easier ways to do it.
>>2660955google can tell anything but you chose up to 1 million a day as your price range to impress 2 girls, lets be real youre not gonna burn that much for a fucking boat ride. Its just a floating thing on water and then you either look at the sea or go around, get hungry and go back. They dont wanna be there for weeks. So what actually happens is youre getting dragged to a shopping mall with two girls. Guess what happens when she says hey chaaaad get me this trinket from scam mall or ill go tweet johny on is he free. You have to get it.Dont budget the boat that high, you got other expenses.
>>2661175Lol my price range is like $1,000 max. I just took a boat ride in Hawaii as a kid and now it brings back those feels every time I travel to a new place. Getting drunk on the ocean watching sea turtles and shit is my jam. I worked on a fishing boat in Scandinavia for a year, I just like boats. I took my wife on one when we were in Thailand, then again in Hawaii. Was a blast. Also my wife grew up on welfare and thinks anything is impressive. She flinches if ketchup goes up $0.15. As for my sister in law, I'm covering her ticket because she was nice enough to pay for the VRBO. I just want to get inebriated and look at pretty ocean things. Overnight, preferably. Having trouble finding anything.
>>2661167If it helps, she's a waifu pillow I enchanted with wizard magic I bought on Alibaba. Can't walk on her own, but has some basic sentience.
