for the average american tourist, appalachia offers a dramatically richer, deeper, and more rewarding experience, culturally, aesthetically, and spiritual, than anything in the rocky mountains or western united states.
>>2906916the people whining don't want nature, they want hookersthe funny part is they did have hookers during the logging boom, but that went away
>>2899644What would be the top 3 or so in your top 50?
>>2906600The California Sierra has a huge variety of mountain habitats that mog anything in the East. Yes you can find many different colors in the transition zones. >>2906552The Andean spine of South America contains some of the most dramatic and impressive landscapes on Earth, the seat of a mystical ancient empire. Affordability is a great bonus for an extended trip. I like spartan little guesthouses or hostels tucked away on rustic village streets much more than the generic roadside motels with their oversoft beds and fat white people driving cars around. And yes, I like being around short brown indigenous people who are gentle and peaceable (if not entirely trustworthy).
>>2906992>dude just pay a thousand dollars or more for a flight >And yes, I like being around short brown indigenous peopleI like being in whiteville>go to appalachia>enter new town>there are brown people>escape as quigly as possible>flee to a new location
appalachian folks are less autistic and rule-bound than the swiss
Planning a two-week solo vacation to France in April of 2027. >low-budget (about 4500 USD including airfare)>I like art, history, and meeting folks, especially locals but other tourists are cool too>Je peux comprendre relativement bien français but can't speak it very well at all (part of the point of the trip is to get better at the language)The current rough plan is:>Monday 1, hop on a flight from New York and land in Paris>Tuseday 1, do stuff in Paris>Wendsday 1, hop on a bus/train to Bordeaux>Thursday 1 through Sunday 1, do stuff in Bordeaux >Monday 2, hop on a bus/train to Toulouse >Tuseday 2 through Thursday 2, do stuff in Toulouse >Friday 2, hop on a bus/train to Lyon>Saturday 2 and Sunday 2, do stuff in Lyon>Monday 3, hop on a bus/train back to Paris and fly back to NYComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2907188You dollar cost average your flights. If you pay $365 round trip for a flight, and stay for a year, your flight cost was $1 a day. If you pay $365 and stay for 10 days, your flight cost was $36.5 a day. You cut your cost by more than 30x literally by doing nothing. I just checked and you can fly NYC to Athens for $149. Then from athens you can fly to Paris for about $40 or less, or investigate the flixbus. Could be fun to see europe that wayBut for routing you generally fly the cheapest macro to macro route that's close enough to your final destination. Once you're close enough, from there you can figure it out
>>2907054>Are these as much of an expensive pain in the ass to get there as in the USA?never rented in the US so idkyou can get a small, run down Peugeot for like ~25€/day in most of Franceyou don't want a big car anyway, parking spots are often very smallbook with a credit card that has insurance included, make photos of the whole car before (while picking up) AND after (when on the rental company return parking lot)they sometimes try to scam you but revert on the tiniest resistance with photos>Because I'd probably rather just visit a few walkable *gasp* cities for a few days time.the main problem is, you won't get to these walkable cities in the first placeand many interesting cities are interesting for a day trip, not overnightFrance generally has good public transport in the big citiesbut the big cities happen to be the most uninteresting part (except Paris)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2907048Ok, just realized that D-Day tours from Paris are not only rare in the winter, but the ones available are extremely expensive. I think I'll skip it for some other time.Any other day trips recs from Paris in winter?
>>2907221It would be easiest to stay in Bayeux or Caen for a night or two if you want a dday tour. Very easy train ride from Paris, although I dont know who offers tours in winter.
>>2906508Instead of Lyon, go to Annecy. Annecy is France's best kept secret. The most beautiful city I've seen in the country.
How expensive is it to stay at a small Norwegian village for like a month?
>>2907079Best way to do it is Facebook market place for better deals but eh. This is barring any section 8 assistance which is piss easy to getFor the gov benefits the US provides are bar none if you don't mind shaking off your pride to exploit the system, especially to AK residents you overall get cheaper shit than if you try to juggle the stuff in Norway. >1 person: $3,258 to $3,260 per month limitAnd you can still get EBT 300/mo, and qualify for cheaper internet/healthcare/tax brackets/etc. I know what I am talking about here anon as I had a roommate who took a job up there for 40k/yr, his take home qualified him for dem programs. I spent a lot of time helping him look shit up so he would thankfully move out.Last time I was in Bergen my friends were giving me shit about the USA so I brought up Anchorage as a comparison, showed them walmart+rent+gym+car prices and while inflated were still cheaper than the cubes you'd get there.
Also keep in mind income tax in AK is 0% which means you really make way more working simple BS jobs than anything in Norway. IIRC all said and done you are looking at 35-40% after pension/healthcare/general income
>>2907085ignoring the room, the apartments are pretty much the same on what you would get in Norway outside Oslo and city centers$1000 is a very realistic budget for a small apartment long termcomparing government benefits only makes sense for citizensyou have them in Norway as wellbut we're on /trv/ so I'm not assuming you have a passport of wither country>in Bergen my friends>showed them walmart+rent+gym+car pricesyour friend are probably rich / detached from lower pricesgroceries certainly are not more expensive in Bergen, everything fresh fruit / vegetables is cheaperrents, like I said, very similar, gym and car is more expensive in Norway though>>2907089Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2907096>in Norway you're gonna life a decent lifeUnless OP is in a field needed out there, no he's not. The USA has insane tax credits/gibs/freebees etc. Most people don't use them because they make too much in the USA and don't want to admit they spend their cash mainly on stupid shit like eating out daily(or their pride gets in the way). Don't get me wrong Norway is 100% more a high trust society(even in those areas of Oslo now) but the ability to move in and actually start making a good life? Not a chance unless he is skilled as an outsider. If OP is simply looking for the similar environment, just find whatever floats your boat along the PNW>ignoring the room, the apartments are pretty much the same on what you would get in Norway outside Oslo and city centersHave you looked at Norway prices recently? for 1k ~ 8500 kr you often are just getting a room in a house with shared living spaces with a whole 10-15m2 to yourself, and most landlords are counting common areas to make it seem HUGE.But anyways, if OP is looking for just a month go on airbnb, do a month add ~30% of the rent as your food and not kill yourself budget money, there you go. Norway isn't finland levels of suicide but it's catching up.
>>2907203>The USA has insane tax credits/gibs/freebees etc. Most people don't use themthey're impossible to get. it takes years to get them. The offices are all run by incompetent Shaniquas.
What's the minimal amount of money you need per month to live in Arizona, Texas or Colorado(Not including housing)? How much of a difference is there between these states?
>>2907204>60 bucks if you knew what you were doing.And what were you buying?
>>2907208Assuming he's talking about prices from 17 years ago up till coof era 60 bucks is a lot from those Mexican groceries, hell even wallshart 60 dollars can go a couple weeks if you shop right doing discounted meats, ramen, etc. Hell even spacing out the 6.99 ready to go chickens over a few days with bread will last you
>>2907151Chisos Mountains Lodge in Big Bend National Park. They've switched contractors from Forever Resorts to Aramark since I worked there. The natural setting is paradise for a lover of deserts and farflung wild places. Sadly they got a cell tower for the Basin and then everyone became generic wagie NPCs glued to their phones and barely talking to each other. I went back for a second year but it had changed. The social energy of a bunch of castaways in the middle of nowhere forced to bond with each other was gone. Strong Colorado weed had replaced our old ditch grown crap; instead of passing endless bowls and coughing our lungs out before strumming up a guitar and slapping some bongos, we smoked privately and hid in our rooms. Girls and guys stopped getting frisky every evening. It took so many years to accept the fact that this kind of life was gone and never to return for me. Solitude, independence and inhibition has been the norm for the eight years since then.
>look up section 8 law maximums in each state>look up foodstamp, healthcare, and things like gov provided internet+cell phones+free bus ride programsThere you go.
>>2907208A full grocery haul. Imagine if your fridge and pantry were empty and you had to restock on everything.>>2907211I should have specified "immediately before COVID" but yes things were even cheaper in the 2000s.>Mexican groceriesThose are nice. Your local carniceria will be your best friend if you're flat broke.
Previous thread reached bump limit.Share your China traveling plans, stories, questions, advice, language, etc.No political spam, please. Taiwan posters please go to /twg/ - Taiwan general.Previous Thread[4chan] >>2898235[Archive]https://archive.4plebs.org/trv/search/subject/ChG/Pingyao Edition
>>2907184whats your secret friendo. chinese foids used to be easiest on planet earth 10 years ago, but I can barely get hookups anymore and half of the women on the apps accuse me of catfishing them to kidnap them
>>2907191everywhere I go I only approach in person. internet people dont have sex. they just stay on the internet all day and chat garbage. the idea of online hookups was a fad that was absurd on its face. how can you decide to hook up with someone without even smelling them first.covid created a generation of autistic eternally online timewasters who want to do gay socially distanced internet relationships for life instead of meeting in person and having sex, if you skip apps you largely avoid these people
it's too stressful going for hookups and prozzers. At the end of the day every laowai settles down and gets themselves a comfortably mid gf
>>2907195good point. duly noted.I have done direct approach but it was never my strong suit because I am facially decently below average. I got some success through pure balls but I think I am running into my limit due to aging out.you are probably pretty decent facially. what percentage of cold approaches would you say bears fruit for you. It never worked well for me in china, the girls are too money hungry overall
>>2907169>because the kid will practically be stateless and have no rights unless you marry her and fuck all that shit.wtf are you talking about
I want to be a travel YouTuber, but I have autism.I don't have social skills and don't particularly like talking to people. Can I still make it, /trv/ bros?
>>2902148I wouldn't say it's the ONLY way for travel youtubers. Bald and Bankrupt published one video a month and has zero shorts, and his videos average way more than a million views each.
>>2901434>The problem with that is that viewers want a face and a parasocial relationship. Name one (1) travel YouTuber that does that, you can't because you don't make any money by doing that.I actually don't want that. I want a more ASMR vibe and text captions are fine - there's lots of no talking no face travel channels or just talk to introduce the hiking and outdoors "today we are at x park in the state of x" it doesn't need to be long or in depth just telling us the basis of where you are and what you are seeing >Name one (1) travel YouTuber that does that, you can't because you don't make any money by doing that.its more of a gender thingwomen almost always show their faces, men only do if they are chadthere's plenty of nerdier travel male youtubers who don't
>>2901434>Name one (1) travel YouTuber that does that, you can't because you don't make any money by doing that.there are asian women travel youtubers and general lifestyle youtubers who don't show their faces. some who never show their faces, some who occasionally show their faces.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a81Hf-r1HAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_seSrvYhPPY <AI voiced weird thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSiX2BmMv-khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=867P4sGpbdgthat genre is more Asian Girl Going Somewhere and Shopping than a White Male Travel Vlog, but still, they maybe show a picture of the back of their head or a reflection in a window. subtitles and often no speaking at all.
>>2895961What about 1 min recordings, then fade to another 1 min of something going on, and so on. I personally get bored of those long walking tours after a minute. Also thought about doing these with a 360 camera. Maybe a 360 video, a 4k video, and some shorts of every spot.
>>2893292Ya just find your niche, look at bogmans abandonded exploration stuffhttps://youtube.com/shorts/Q3U5NKTkPHg
I'm a 33 year old guy from Finland. I'm thinking of moving to Latin America because of two reasons: the weather is miserable here for 5/12 of the year and lack of dating possibilities unless you are a gigachad.I have 400k saved up. What's a safe country where I could find a wife and eventually buy an apartment and not be afraid of people killing me in my sleep because Im rich(comparatively) and they are not?
Yeah thanks guys for the decent thread. I'll think about Spain, lots of finnish people there too.
>>2904515Buying a house sounds like a terrible financial decision, and you will never make that money again in a 2nd world country>invest 400k in SP500>historical returns of 7% after inflation = 35k yearly income to withdraw>some years the stocks will crash bigly, or other years they will boom, so you need discipline to not lose all your savings in a crash year >you can probably rent a beautiful house for 1000$/month, and have enough to live on>if you rent you can move countries every few years and find a new restaurant to work atTo find out what countries to move to you should be doing a 2-3 week vacation every year to different countries to learn what you likeYou can get burned by foreign woman just like local woman. They might get into 2 year relationship then find a way to get half your money and kick you out. But at least you had fun and learned something right?
>>2906987The thing with real estate is that you can leverage it. So you put 25k down and suddenly you're in control of a 500k asset, if it goes up 5% you get 25k. if your 25k goes to stocks and goes up 10% you only get 2.5k. Ultimately I do stocks because of the lack of commitment but if I had a place in the US I actually wanted to live and not fuck away from for years at a time, I would do real estate. Or even just house flip to exploit the leverage
>>2907177>Or even just house flip to exploit the leveragewhat extra returns you're gaining in leverage you'll be losing in time, hassle and risk
>>2907183I'm not a returnsfag. I don't need to be rich. I just need to get by without working. Real estate isn't suited for a life like this. But if you want to shekelmaxx and get rich as fast as possible at all costs it seems like a good option
Can't believe there isn't a general about Nam already, even though everyone and their mother is going there.I myself did Saigon, Da Nang, Hoi An, Hanoi, and the Ha Giang Loop earlier this year. Can highly recommend all of it.
>>2901426I was there 2 years ago, there's 2 useful free bus lines and Grab wasn't overpriced at all (though some destinations can be a pretty long trip).If you like to court with death, you can get a scooter.
there ain't SHIT happening in Vietnam
>>2906758Not for some ugly loser like you. The rest of us have plenty that happens in Vietnam.
>>2896462D1 - Japantown avenues at nighttime
is da lat worth visiting? what about da nang, hoi ann, and hue? i'm only doing south and middle vietnam with ho chi minh as base. where should i go?
Have you ever made any legit friends while travelling?
Not real ones. And if you take any with you you won’t be after the trip >>2905738Just say you’re poor and shallow, it’s less dishonest
Pretty decent amount of friends in Norway, Finland, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan. Taiwan I recently started making a good chunk of friends, just wish asia didn't spam stupid shit on social apps all the timeJust follow your hobbies and it's fairly easy
>>2905737Sometimes I meet some lads to get drinks with, but nothing long term. It's nice in the moment though.Every trip I get slightly better at socializing. Hoping to finally get laid one day
>>2906966>>2906942i had sex with japanese milf ( i invited her to quite fancy ryokan because my room was 2people by default anyway), but then next day i realized she would slow me down so much i would be late for remote work and not see any of the things in the mountains i wanted to see and she could even get dizzy in the heat because of her age. I basically said that i dont like travelling with other people because they are slow but she can tag along if she wants. She said she will go back home then and then she blocked me
>>2906979>She said she will go back home then and then she blocked merare roastie W, common wfh cuck L
I'm in New York for the first time ever on holiday and had only ever been to Washington DC for a week in the past.The metro has its own run down charm. On the way from the airport I saw famous subway monkey bars that the black guy swings on in the gif that gets posted.After 2 minutes of walking in Manhattan I had already realised how totally gigamogged Washington DC was. I ran out of things I really wanted to do in DC after around 4 days and the walkable areas that ChatGPT suggested were barely what you'd expect. The downtown was totally sterile, like being in a video game engine tech demo. But comparing them is clearly unfair.After 4 hours of walking I saw more attractive women than almost a week in DC. After walking into Central Park I realised my entire 20s were wasted by not living here (not that I could've had a visa). I saw lots of young people enjoying themselves and BRVTALLY lifemogging the rest of the world. There were a few random sights that felt contrived, like someone playing the saxophone while lots of youngish people played Pickleball below and there was a view of a random part of the skyline. And walking out of an old building and seeing some manual labourers clap for some newlyweds also walking out of it.I went for a random walk and saw a Trump building and Chrysler building and walked 2 seconds into a building and saw an original Bill of Rights.On my second day of walking around, it seemed really clear that New York mogs the hell out of London and Paris. Seeing skyscrapers everywhere makes every other city feel like a totally cucked joke. I remember reading about someone claiming a great thing about London is that "it feels like many connected villages" and I think that sums up the small time mentality. All the NIMBY nonsense about blocked sunlight or "not respecting the street" is bullshit. Streets only feel bad to walk through when there are many road lanes, not when there are skyscrapers.
>>2906177>After walking into Central Park I realised my entire 20s were wasted by not living herei wasted my 20s living thereshit's so fucking expensive
>>2906403>>2906509Listen, NYC and Cali have the most beautiful women in the US and it isnt close. I think you can argue one is better than the other but it isnt by a long shot.I live in LA, I see hot women everywhere so I know what the CA anon is saying is true. Especially Santa Barbara, a place known for its hot college girls. Im there a couple times a month so I can verify it is a great place to see stereotypically hot blonde haired blue eyed white girls especially. Its a bastion of whiteness and the women are hot. Those are facts.Go walk in DTLA, say, on Spring (a lovely street) or down 7th, you are 100% guaranteed to see supermodel-tier hot women, I do every time I go. Been recently seeing more goth/emo looking girls, which im okay with. Everyone ive taken with me agrees with this fact. When I worked in Woodland Hills and it was a parade of hot women there too. Target in Westfield = booty central. I was last in NYC a few months back and once again, I saw hot women often but frankly, it felt like there were slightly less than in years past. Thats not to say there werent many hot women, there were, but LA has this overwhelming surplus of hot women, its ridiculous. I was in Utah just the other day and saw a surprising number of hot women. Sure there are a lot of pasty faced bug eyed inbred mormon-stock, but man some of those girls were fuckin hot, I think its an underrated place for hot women but for every hot one there are 2 inbred looking ones.Now Chicago has the worst case of hoeflation ive ever seen. Pale, beanpole corn-fed looking alien bitches and jew bitches everywhere, meanwhile the men look like greek-gods, absolutely insane contrast. A week in Chicago and I saw maybe a handful of hot chicks and I went basically everywhere, the hottest women by far were in Gold Coast (naturally) but even they had a high incidence of bogged/jewish phenotype than I would like, but there are hot women in Gold Coast. Concrete beach was a bunch of ugly beanpoles.
>>2906177small time is better than big time imot. has actually lived in big cities
>>2906923It's the perfectly bronzed tan that makes SoCal girls so irresistibly sexy. Lots of them college girls are white Asian hybrids as well. NYC and the wealthy enclaves of coastal New England also have a lot of slender pretty girls who lack for nothing in life. Pasty white skin doesn't do it for me. But some of those Northeast beach teenies in summertime, Jesus Christ I'm not even a high libido guy and they about drive me crazy.
>>2906923NYC is mathematically disqualified because it's more than 50% black + jewish, it has the most jews in the world in a single city (iirc) and jews are fucking ugly. LA has too many fridge body browns. If you want to cherry pick the hottest girls then you end up with Utah or Minneapolis or any small town being competitive with them. Seattle and SF have hotter women simply because you're trading black and brown for white and asian. Who cares that they're leftist and don't wear Kardashian clown makeup. I'm alpha. I can fix her.
i'm eyeing up my first climb in georgia (picrel, 5054m) and beginning to train for it. what mountains have you climbed while travelling?
>>2906648>Do they have public transit to the topThe top? Yeah, no. But, you can take a bus to the 5th station and hike from there, which is what most people do. It’s all above treeline and mostly shitty volcanic rock, so not the most pleasant hike. It’s also better, imo, to descend down the opposite side instead of the way you came. Longer journey home if going to Tokyo, but a much more pleasant descent.
Any tips for a total noob mountainlet? I'm from Australia, literally the flattest fuck continent on the planet, have never actually hiked up a proper mountain or even seen snowcapped peaks but it's a dream of mine.I'm 26 and physically strong but aerobics definitely need improving still. I think I'll try New Zealand or Japan someday.
>>2907052Practice walking up and down 50 flights of stairs
>>2907052OP here, you sound exactly like me kek, 26 australian, but i live in georgia where my target mountain is. i'm lanky and 6' - i'm going to the gym 6 days a week, alternating days of general strength and then an hour of zone 2 cardio. straight up boring shit, but it works. then on your rest day, go hike or just walk up a hill with a backpack on or something.
>>2907052I did Tongariro in NZ (at the advice of a /trv/ anon ironically) for my first real hike and loved it. I'm from Florida which is even flatter and had no trouble, cardio wise. I think it's winter there now though so you'll probably want to wait a little bit for the weather to clear.
This is Shirakawa-gou. That guy is an eye sore. Do not destroy the scenery by your very existence.
>>2906899I'm still waiting on my sushi slop, tetsuo. Aregato siyonara wabi sabi moshi moshi, got it?
>>2907051>Zero exceptionsWhat about medical tattoos to hide scars e.g. For burns victims?
>>2907132Since the COVID-19 pandemic, smoking regulations have become much stricter. Smoking is prohibited outdoors except in designated smoking areas—even in places like Shinjuku and Shibuya. Gaijin who smoke without regard for these rules are disliked by Japanese people.
>>2906899>cigarettes???>tattoos???>We don't do that ***IN JAPAN***Has anyone ever explained to japs that they aren't special or an exception on the global stage? They may actually commit sudoku when they find out
>>2906899yeah yeah, real sad. Now hurry up and put the sushi in the bag, takeshi. chop chop.
I'm wanting to go camping in rural Germany next year. Travel around on the trains and buses, starting in NRW where I used to live as a kid (Dad was British Army) What's the situation like over there right now in terms of third worlders? I get that the cities are just as bad as the UK, but what is the countryside like? I want to see beautiful scenery and quaint little villages without having to fight my way through hordes of hijabs.Where should I avoid?
>>2904192Also I forgot to add that I am trans if it matters
>mom, I posted it again
>>2904192NRW is a crowded shithole. You can't camp there.
>>2904192Germany is the worst country I've ever been to
Why can't people make orange juice as good as back home.
>>2904211>i was working in israelooof
>be amerimutt>always hear about how food is sugar slop>go to SEA>orange juice is 99% more sugar to the point it's nearly undrinkable>okay well I'll just get some organic shit>still a shit load of sugar>have to basically pay some street vendor daily to squeeze shit for me and he still tries to add some sweetener
>>2906613yes, i've worked in lots of places. so what
>>2907060Local quality Thaislop is really worse quality than Amerislop. I never shit a solid log when eating local food in Thailand. It's always little smears and blobs that burn on the way out. Come back to America and go shopping at the supermarket, all of a sudden my belly loses its bloat and my turds are long & solid again.
>>2904160>Why can't people make orange juice as good as back home.depends on where you are fromfresh Orange juice is really good and cheap if Oranges are in season and you live near where they growi.e. Spain, Brazil, Florida, Mexico, Italy etc. although generally all of EU will have good oranges because the efficient logistics from Spain / Italythere are different varieties thoughand the biggest producers (Brazil, China, US) do not grow the best tasting onesthe absolute king of Orange Juice is>Sicilian Taroccowhich as the name indicates, comes from Sicily and is hard to replicate anywhere else due to the unique (volcanic) soil+climate thereif you ever tasted it, everything else will feel "artificial" and wrong
Sup /trv/, here's a summary of my trip to Buenos Aires last month in pictures.I mostly hated the place, everything is ridiculously expensive and the value you get for what you pay is total shit.Public transport is America-tier and you will have to use it unless you prefer renting a car or Ubering all over the place.I went there for family reasons and was admittedly lazy when it came to checking out things to do and places to visit so obviously YMMV if you have a more defined itinerary.Anyways, I started my journey at the Jardin Botanico, here's the statue that greets you when you first enter the place, there is no entrance fee.
>>2906122>the same carelessness we have in every sphere of our lives (except for football) we have when it comes to food.Grim
>>2906123>best pizza in the worldterrible cheese on top of bread, still better than brazil tho
>>2906122>except for meat, all the food you'll try in argentina will be shit.Nonsense. Most places were good. I only ran into a few that were crap. Two shawarma places, one empanadas chain, and one of the Chinese places. The other Chinese places were just disappointing, but weren't "shit".My review of the shawarma places:https://warosu.org/ck/thread/21460568
>>2907012holy shit you're a dumbass. You go to argentina to eat shawarma? Chinese? Wtf is wrong with you? If you want shawarma go to Berlin and get a real turk to make you one, how about you enjoy the local, traditional food.
>mfw foreigners go to the most expensive restaurants in the most expensive part of the city and then complain about getting ripped off
