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Is thailand a good place to move to with 15k in savings? Any accomodation recommendations? I live in hell and must move.
>>2632288yeah, you can easily find low carb meals here.
>>2632278Thais don't walk, especially outside Bangkok. Only tourists trudge the streets in the heat. Everyone rides a motorbike.
>>2632427nice
>>2632190explore the mountains, if you can handle hiking in the heat and hazy airride the trainlay around your room all day shitposting, only emerging to eat and wander the nighttime streetstry to make local friendsgo to Malaysia
>>2632433>lay around your room all day shitpostingmy latest hobby is antagonizing Americans on /pol/I either point out how shitty America is compared to Asia or I pretend to be Asian and call them losers for their failure in Vietnamit's very funny
Redpill me on Flushing Chinatown in Queens, NYCI want to travel but not go to far. I live in upstate NY so I wouldn’t even be leaving the state.All I know is that it’s the biggest Chinatown in the US now. And street view on Google Maps make it look comfy.
I lived there for 1 year ask me anything. I fucking loved it. Everyone there is some either some old Taiwanese grandma who moved there in the 70s or some 20 year Chinese wealthcore Douyin faggot who drives an AMG and chain smokes. I lived in NYC for a while and it was a great change of pace because the food is delicious and cheap, the people are friendly unlike your typical jogger or yuppie or hipster neighborhood, and it's really easy to get around the city because you're so close to the LIRR and the 7 Express and the airports. The rent wasn't too bad but it's god awful everywhere. The downsides were living under the landing pathway for LGA made me lose my hearing and there are some public housing projects nearby where tweakers would hide out during the day and then come out to rob people at night. I saw 3 robberies on my block the year I lived there, but no shootings unlike other neighborhoods I lived in.>>2629062It's Taiwanese and Mainlanders instead of Canto immigrants like Manhattan.>>2629088Not common at all probably 99 Chinese-chinese couple for every WMAF.>>2629105Roosevelt and Main Street are okay but if you walk for 5 minutes you get on a comfy side street so it's not that bad. I didn't really hear the noise.>>2629174It's probably the cheapest neighborhood that isn't a complete shithole overrun with gangsters. But that's for a reason. A lot of the homes are old and falling apart.>>2629156Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2632232answering some more>>2631723yeah that's one thing you definitely notice is that the place is crawling with glowies who are keeping tabs on the Taiwanese and all the rich kids who are children of high ranking CCP members. it's a mess. when NY times dropped that scoop that CCP has sovereign police stations in America their HQ was on Main Street in flushing. in the news all the time you hear about some mainlander drama bullshit, murders and extortion and such.>>2632152I'm white and it was fine. it's New York people aren't really surprised by your skin color. you see all kinds of people all the time, so don't expect the red carpet or anything.>>2632185it's all the rich CCP members trying to move their cash out of the country.>>2632191you definitely notice the wealthcore mainlanders everywhere. they're pretty annoying but they invest in their uncle's restaurants so its not all bad. they just smoke and drink and double park their benzes.
>>2632232>>2632233How easy was it to get a Chinese gf?Should I go for an FOB or an ABC girl?
>>2632232>>2632233Best bars and clubs? Good places to pick up chicks?
Best massage parlors for a happy ending?
What Greek beaches would you recommend for swimming?
>>2629954Yeah>>2630150They are on roids, the transformation is just too fast
>>2630210thanks
>>2629849how gay is a swimsuit of that length/tightness in europe?I've been working out consistently for 2 years now and am in pretty good shape. I'm also going to Greece this summer and want to look great like Bond. Will I seem like a huge faggot essentially wearing underwear style, brief-length swim suits?>in b4: "OP you're already a huge faggot" I know I am.
>>2631219If you're actually in good shape you'll look attractive in anything
0 resort beaches unless you want to swim in literal shit
What is regional and outback Australia like?
Nature is nice in some places.People can be polite, but they're hicks.I wouldn't bother just travelling around (other than the "big sights") unless you have a lot of time and a genuine interest.
Generally good people but avoid the towns with the most abbos ie. anything northern territory/central australia
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>>2631802don't waste your time
>passport bros saturating any decent location>social media basically bringing in hordes of normies and zombies into any tourist location>westernization at rapid pace>overall inflation>brutal competition with concepts like looksmaxxing and geomaxxing going mainstream>foreigner fatigueFuture doesn't look bright bros. What keeps you all motivated to travel?
>>2632283I'm a pretty self-fulfilled person and I would 100% take a relationship with a woman over my hand. I also don't regret a single time I've been in love.>>2632268It's a mixed bag. I actually find women tend to love men when we just act naturally. And I say that as a person with very faggy tendencies in conjuction with my risk taking and handsome face. Women like us to be beautiful through our deeds and our autistic interests. >>2632213How? If they actually like each other.
>>2628266>mopped?
>>2624427Every accessible, well known non-scary place is going to be mobbed with tourists as long as people have prosperity. It's just the game. BUT, every inaccessible, poorly known, scary place is going to be bereft of tourists, as is every place when there is no prosperity.
I just visited Japan for the first time and felt like I got there too late. Like the glory days were over and Japan had been used up.Tokyo was filled with fairly cold staff. They just seemed to be tired of foreigners/tourists. There was a lot of pleasantry, authenticity, and kindness, especially in Osaka and Wakayama, but I really had to try and get past that wall at every spot and seek out obscure places. It helped I studied Japanese for 4 months prior with my wife.As of yesterday there were 3x as many tourists as when I arrived. Many of them just walking into openly full restaurants with a queue, bumbling about. Anglo boomers with no awareness, no cultural awareness. I give respect to the young Westerners for going all out in fashion though. I guess the question I had for them was: why come here to just be yourself? It will take some time to die down, but Japan has been overtravelled and the negative effects are clear (stranger wariness, lack of adventure)
>>263239999% of Japan has no tourism except a few Japanese.The places you went were already full of foreigners 20 years ago, of course less than now but already "used up".Next time go out of the meme zones and you'll spent a good time. I'm at 62 days now and saw 10 white people max and 8 of them were during a transfer in a big station that I used for convenience.I regularly have people come talk a bit and give me food.
I will move to Brazil for a year in an exchange program. I'm thinking about the northern part, I'm interested in the rainforest, but I'm worried about malaria and crime. What do you suggest?
>>2626175>I'm thinking about the northern part,Go to Recife
>>2630219Belo Horizonte isn't bad, just not real exciting, the girls were pretty and friendly and it's less chaotic than Rio>>2631147There's also the Atlantic "rainforest" in the south, but it's not hot and tropical, more of a temperate cloud forest, not sure what's out there, but it looked cool from the bus
>>2626175Why would you go to northern brazil if you're worried about those two things?
>>2631157if you want to see the Jaguar, which is the species to see the. Pantanal is the best place in the world.
>>2630979I think I'll be fine there. Actually, I only had two choises, as it turned out: Minas Gerais or Mato Grosso do Sul. I think MG was an obvious choice here.
>six nights in Tokyo >six nights in Kyoto My first time ever visiting Japan. Is this a good itinerary? I don’t want to rush myself during my trip and enjoy both cities at a comfortable pace.
>>2631624>Also the nightlife seems smaller. I ran into the same group of British guys 3 nights in a row out there.lol, that's pretty funny
>>2631471I'm in the same situation>6 days tokyo>1 day mt fuji>4 days kyoto/osaka/nara>1 day ghibli parknot sure if I have too many days in tokyo vs kyoto, especially since half of one of them kyoto days will be eaten by traveling from mt fuji to kyoto
Kyoto was kind of a letdown. Tourism industry was way too established. The less I saw of the main sights the happier I was. Golden temple was good though.Unironically though I did a Maiko experience and that was both cringe and amazing
>>2631471Should be like two in Kyoto and ten in Tokyo. You'll definitely be rushing Tokyo.
>>26314716 / 6 is a fucking terrible idea.Just finished up my 3rd day in Kyoto today and that was enough. To be honest I basically dodged the crowds completely, if you insist on seeing the same top 10 kyoto sights every website in a google search will list like i just did, come prepared and start your day at 05:30. I had 5 days in Tokyo by comparison and left feeling like I could have just stayed my whole 3 weeks there
Going to Scotland as someone who learned to drive on the right. What should I know before taking the wheel?Recommend sweet spots in the Highlands btw pls
>>2631563>I'd advise a night out in Aberdeenlol absolutely not
Bumping thread because I'm going to Scotland in September.We want to go to as many distilleries as possible and for obvious reasons we don't want to drive.Any circuits to recommend? Are train, bus and taxi OK or should we hire a driver and car? We also want to spend at least 1 night in Ireland.
>>2631996the distillery tours are all kind of the same anon, but if you like whisky or are a big fan of X distillery you'll enjoy doing a few tours anyway the problem you have is most distilleries are a good distance away from each other and the public transport between them is usually dogshit or worse. however if you go to speyside or islay there are enough distilleries in a small enough area for you to set up a base and get taxis to and from them. last one i did was Talisker; complete pig to get to (Islay is worse) but the isle of skye is so gorgeous that I didn't care also what do you want to do in ireland ? you won't really see much overnight but maybe you like collecting countries idk
>>2632075>also what do you want to do in ireland ?One of my friends in this group wants to see the distilleries there (Tullamore Dew iirc) but it's all about Scotland as far as I can tell. I've never been to either country so I'm fine with going there as well.>the problem you have is most distilleries are a good distance away from each other and the public transport between them is usually dogshit or worse.Fuck.>speyside or islay there are enough distilleries in a small enough area for you to set up a base and get taxis to and from them.OK so I guess I'll have to suck it up, get sober and rent a van/car for the rest of the areas. I really was expecting a decent bus network between cities or something like that.
>>2632080Going to Ireland just to do the tullamore tour seems a waste but not my trip. It’s easy enough to get to from DublinThere is public transport in Scotland but outside of commuter cash cow routes they never seem to be timetabled conveniently. Maybe you’ll get lucky. Draw up an itinerary and see if calmac / scotrail / stagecoach / city link / … lines up. If it doesn’t hire a car or book on to one of those whisky tours where you get a minibus and driver
Has anyone done a trip to see the Northern lights? It's the thing that's been on my travel list for the longest, but I was misinformed, I thought it's just a normal thing that people in Scandinavia see on a daily basis but apparently you have to "hunt" for them. Is there a way to do it without booking a tour? How likely is it that I don't see shit if I go for two or three days?
What's the best place and time to see polar bears under the Northern lights?
>>2632024Churchill, Manitoba bear migration patterns mean you get lots (thousands) of bears in the vicinity around Oct/Nov, before the sea freezes and the bear go hunt seal for the rest of the winter. and being winter it is dark enough at night to get aurora good luck anon. a bear lit only by aurora is a rare sight
>>2632072>Churchill, ManitobaIsn't that place famous for polar bears that are habitual to humans for comfort?
>>2631497Waste of a tripGo to the country and if you see if, with some good aurora planning, then great Otherwise too much expectation Reality. They aren't that good in real life. Saw maybe once my life impressive north lights like you see in pics. People pretend online their sight was amazing when its all camera lens
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I post a thread about which country to travel to while looking for a good wife>DELETED. BANNED. OFF-TOPICI'm reading a cooming thread (I am not a coomer at all)>flooded with anons angry at being forced to click on the thread, read it and comment on it. Whu? The thread that died for it nobody commented on for weeks. This board is almost deadI post a thread with a Pepe>FILE DELETED. Eh? This is 4chan, home of PepeOn /biz/ it's so much more chill. Anons are funnier and less uptight there>inb4 fuck off to /biz/ thenI can post a thread about travelling to find a wife there and it won't get deleted because the chill jannie appreciates it's of interest to anons who have money and want to leave the US. Way more off-topic there but its more chillWhy am I being forced to make travel threads on /biz/ rather than /trv/, the slowest board on 4chan? I just don't get it. Why is jannie so restrictive on the slowest board?
>>2632387>being this much of a faggotNobody comes to trv to discuss actual travelling outside sex tourism lmao.
>>2632397>>2632398He's using an avatar on an anonymous imageboard.That should already tell you everything.I wish he'd namefag too, would make him easier to filter, something which he is incapable of.
>>2632358>frognigger shit thread #591203>On /biz/ it's so much more chill. Anons are funnier and less uptight therethey are actually mostly on topic. If they would create similar threads it would be like>my mom won't let me invest in crypto>which crypto is having the most normies??????!?>my parents wont allow me to buy chinese stocksetc. And also you actually can make money from retarded frogniggers thanks to pepe coin
>>2632358>I post a thread about which country to travel to while looking for a good wifeAnother incel loser who's looking for an obedient wife? We don't need this trash here.
I said my thread about travelling and looking for a wife was deleted>>2632387>This is not a porn boardEh?>frogposters have no interest in talking about the subject at hand My identity is not the an image I post>you bump off useful resource threadsThey are dead and old af>The fact that you can make off topic threads in biz doesnt mean that the jannie is chill; it means that the place isnt being moderatedNo. It definitely is being moderated. I see threads deleted. The jannie just maintains a nice balance of what people want and want is loosely on topic>>2632413>Another incel loserYeah no. Not gonna bother telling you why you are so wrong. This board is so negative. Wtf. I guess /biz/ just has better energy because we're in a bullrun, everyone is happy and making money. Unlike this anon projecting, working retail, counting down the months till his Thailand trip. /trv/ is a sad place. Too many bitter anons. Get out of your situation. Change your life
Best or worst conversation starter?I always say the last place I came from. I am not my country.But I do ask it to find out if I have a suspicion they are from 'that' country.
A lot if you stay-at-home larpers don't understand this thread.If you go to a new country you are a new person. You are in the presense. If someone asks you about youre history or your country politics. They are living in the past.Gently advise them to ask another question
>>2631809It's a good conversation starterIt works well as an exchange of understanding between respective cultures. If it is a country I know well and love I get to display my affection for it and if they are a chick and talk about bow much they love my country I know I'm gonna have sex.Also it can be a gateway to talking about country related topics for example: Often when I have met Dutch people in the past I have had funny conversations talking about how much Belgium sucks which is great.
>>2631778>staying in bunk bedsPoorfags
So /trv... where are you from?
>>2631778I usually sneak up from behind if someone is on their bed looking at their laptop. Then I loudly ask>caught you looking at porn, hehehewhile winking and smirking. Always a good ice breaker.
Looking for tips.I'm from Wyoming, US, and I want to go to Russia and see how their things are. I speak English, obviously, and I can speak/read Russian at a childish level.I want to go to Russia and look around. See how they do it. Not planning on moving there, I've saved up enough money to go there and back, but I've never been on a trip like this so I'm looking for advice.Where to? Moscow? St. Petersburg? Somewhere else?I want to spend a few weeks, maybe a few months there. No specific goals. Things are already in motion, it's happening soon.Anything in particular I should know? Never traveled internationally before. Never traveled internationally before. I went to Canada on accident one time, but that's it.
>>2632206No one would be bringing up literature from literal who Polish journalists and comparing the Russian economy to the Polish economy except a Pole.Try harder next time Andrzej.
>>2632092Why the fuck are poles so autistic over this country? I never see Russians seethe about Poland. Hell they rarely even bring up the country
>>2632022in my high school I had a student come from Siberia. Hair was blonde, tall and blue eyes. He essentially looked like Hitler's dream Aryan. He told me coming to my school in Canada was a shock to him as his school in Siberia was 100% white. Always struck me as weird as Siberia is technically in Asia.
>>2632323And White people technically come from Asia.(I half joke, but there's a plausible theory that most of the features that define Whiteness derive from North and Northeastern Siberia.)Also the Mongol/Caucasian line used to go much further southeast into China. The Ordos Loop, for example (north of Xi'an, west of Beijing) used to be Aryan (PIE, whatever). The furthest south I've heard of ancient Chinese Wytebois was a small amount of settlement in Yunnan. The Chinese word for honey is also a partial cognate of the English word for "mead", or "miel" in French. (The 蜜 in 蜂蜜.) Back from the Wyteboi days of Tocharia. Same with 车 for chariot possibly deriving via ancient techmological transfer from the West (same "che" as wheel <- hwēol <- kʷékʷlos -> kokale -> che [车]).East Asia has a Caucasian history.
>>2632323>Always struck me as weird as Siberia is technically in AsiaNot any more weird than the fact that the vast majority of people in the US & Canada don't look anything like Native Americans.
How do you go to Japan without being classified as just a other tourist? I have holiday coming in a few weeks and just realized we had a travel board on this site. I don't want to be just another tourist or anything getting thrown into the slop of burgers
>>2628606you won't be like the other weebs, this is how it will go for you>wow, u do no rook rike the other gaijin, u do speaku the japanese and eat natto too? super sugoi!>ur arr honorary japanese now, hatamoto, prease fuck my daughterfu, bwc >bows
>>2628611this>>2628799why tf are so many going to thailand? just the trannies or what?>>2629836kek
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>>2629855>just the trainnies or whatnobody tell him
>>2628606Honest answer:-dress well and appropriately -don’t use heavily scented colognes or deoderant sprays-stay in less touristy areas (avoid Shibuya) grab an airBnB even-use Japanese exclusively-bow and say arigatoi gozaimasu every opportunity -engage with staff -be polite, smile, and follow customs best you can (inside voice, no pointing with chopsticks, no banging spoons against bowls, no blowing your nose with the hand towel, etc)-drink and be generous -don’t let the inevitable awkward interactions ruin it for you
Post the downsides of living in the midwest
>>2631839As someone who actually spent 3 years in Omaha:>Extreme weather and temperature>Impossible to find a skinny girl for a gf, enjoy marrying a braphog>If you don't like sportsball you're fucked>If you don't have a car you will have no social life>No natural beauty to explore, its literally all just pre-barrel whiskey fields and a shitty river or two>People are either really nice, mind their own business types or really stupid, redneck white trash>Have fun flying anywhere abroad if you're not in Chicago>At least in Omaha, there's investment coming in but there's also literal dilapidated, abandoned stretches of street and businesses that are bleak af>Outside of major cities or college towns, you will find fucking nothing to do or many people to meet>Lower COL is nice af, modern 1BRs in downtown can be as cheap as $950/mo>Super safe, I had no fear walking home from bars at like 2:30-3am>Hard to meet people if you weren't there for high school or college, will need a ton of outgoing personality or you'll shut yourself in at home>Major cities have their hidden gems that are amazing, borderline NYC tier quality. The Berry and Rye in Omaha being a great example of a high end cocktail bar, Le Bouillon and V Mertz being exceptional for foodComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2631839everyone is an alcoholic or dating an alcoholic or the child of an alcoholicall of the women are dating alcoholics that cheat on them and all of the men are dating useless women who are too afraid to do anything at all or who are absolute bpdemonsyou'll never make a good wage and your coworkers will valiantly spend all of their life force at their jobs pretending that if they work hard they'll get ahead as they dine on styrofoam plates alone with their two cats and listen to some asshole VP talk about how he spent three days in japan and it was life changing to stand in line at the harry potter museum in london only to break down into tears at work after their supervisor tells them they should do betterbasically everyone is constantly paying off debt on new cars or constantly complaining about how their car is about to break down because of the shitty weather and shitty roads and shitty previous ownerseveryone is very ambitious despite doing nothing to act on their ambition, they just think decent jobs will land in their lap one day
>>2632252I never understood the fat hogs mentality, I just moved here from the West Coast and while I only make about 85k with my job I've yet to have issues with meeting good women at the gym or some of the places for weekend drinks. I was told that it was fat women central when I made a moving to Sioux falls thread a while back but I tend to see the opposite. Maybe that anon was right you all go to Applebee's look around and give up.
>>2632258This sounds more like my time in LA rather than what I experience here in SD lol.
>>2631839Illinois herePros>cheapCons>everything else and Chicago is a drain on the rest of us