Is this realistically possible?>Born European Muslim (White great great grandfather converted)>NEET get paid 1000 a month in benefits>Recently sold my dads old motorbike for 15k>Seen some posts recently on indo expat forums of guys overstaying for 30 years and having families etcGoogling rent prices in Aceh where id like to live, less than £200 a month for rent, around £10 a day for food and about £100 a month for gym BJJ memberships. I genuinely don't see why i don't just fly there, dissapear forever. My cousin spent 2 years between indonesia and the Philipines as a surfer and said to me why waste my life in the shithole uk rather than go live frugally in paradise, do nikah get married have kids there. He said the government is likely to simply make me pay a fine if i have a wife and kids and they won't remove me after 20 years because ill have dependants and the uk won't take them as my wife wouldn't meet the income threshold. I am kinda fucked into being a NEET, left highschool at 12, started working in the trades due to family hookups and hated school, did it all unqualified but was making bank as a teenager. At 16 on a government contract got injured due to safety hazard, got compo and lifetime on UC plus PIP never have to go for meetings or reapply.
>>2897150That doesn't work in countries that flag your passport when you leave the country.
>>2897043Lmao disgusting shameless leech.At least your kind is finally getting the message you are not wanted and you should fuck off.
>>2897043Take notes anons, this is what happens when we allow slimes into the west
>>2897153Oh I didn't know you were flagged by interpol
>>2897048>NEET in Europe :(>NEET in 3rd world :ONEET in Europe: tiny "council flat" amongst the chavs/bogans/niggers/fucktards and no money left for funNEET in poor Asia: ocean view penthouse condo and lots of pussy from girls interested in BWCMy monthly expenditures were $1300 for a pretty decent life (including said ocean view penthouse condo). I can't even find a place to rent in any major U.S. city-suburb for that.
I've got Autism and mild social anxiety and looking for a peaceful less crowded location in Japan to book my hotel for the last 10 days (Going mid Feb to early March 2028),I can handle huge crowds for a few days and will be booking 5 days in Shiba park hotel to explore Tokyo and spend 1 day travelling to see Mt. Fuji For the final 13 days I'm looking for somewhere which isn't overcrowded and has cool places to take photo's and experience a more real Japan
*for the final 10
>>2897214The north of Japan is nice and it's much quieter than Tokyo. Maybe somewhere in Hokkaido. It really depends what you're interested in. They have great sushi in the coastal towns
>>2897217I did consider either Hokkaido or somewhere near the alps in the Chubu region
>>2897214I haven't been to Kyoto in a long time, but IIRC it wasn't super crowded. Might be okay. I mean Japan is an interesting place, I lived in the countryside and visited Tokyo for a week. Came back and my adrenaline was still pumping as I walked down the empty street outside my apt. at night.Certain city districts can still get crowded even in small towns depending on the time of day.I'm not sure what real Japan you're looking for though. I like history so that's where I would go with this.Also near Kyoto, Nara was another ancient capital of Japan with various temples and sights.Iga has a ninja museum. The region was a famous hotbed of ninja activity, Oda Nobunaga was nearly assassinated by one and decided to try and wipe the region out.The Kumano Kodo trail runs through the region from Wakayama to Ise Shrine.
I'm planning to take a trip to Chicago possibly this summer. Does anyone from the area know the best pizza places in town? Or any other good places for food. Doesn't have to be fancy. Also, any other things you would recommend for fun?
>>2861952good rec. hit him up on the telegram channel.
I travel for work and, for whatever reason, Chicago is the only city where a short ugly guy like me was able to easily hook up with women who were at least mid. That never happens for me in NYC, and absolutely doesn't happen for me in California. So I like Chicago for reason alone.
>>2895599Teach us your secrets, senpai.
>>2861553Deep dish isn't impressive, but do it if you're there. I grabbed from the original Uno in river north.Tavern pizza can be skipped unless in the mood. It's basically normal pizza.Hot dogs are better than you'd expect, hit up Portillo's.Italian beef isn't nearly as good as it looks.Not something people talk about, but every burger I had there was great. Tasted like I remember burgers tasting like in the 90's.For fun, architecture boat tour is a must.
>>2897230>Deep dish isn't impressive, but do it if you're there. I grabbed from the original Uno in river north.Chicongoan here, TBQPH I recently tried Uno's and it sucked. I would recommend Giordano's, Pequod's, or Malnati's over Uno's.
it's simply obviously better in Europe in every way.Enjoy your sixth monster truck in your comically big driveway, who cares?
>>2897042If you live in a suburb in American than you don't fucking own anything, faggot. HOA and property taxes just means that you rent, and you get told what you can and can't do on "your" property. You've been gaslit into accepting something retarded and inhuman. Anyone who actually wants to "own property with lots of space" would live rural, not suburban. Rural is awesome for people who want privacy, quiet and peace while city living is awesome for modern convivences, amenities, public transport and walkability (so long as its not a shitty car-dependent city). A suburb offers none of those things. They're the worst of both worlds.
>>2897178>If you live in a suburb in American than you don't fucking own anything, faggot.neither if you own in a city lolcities have co-op/condo boards that make even selling your property a pita; i'd unironically take a hoa over a condo board.>>2897086trauma from having to drivenyc exists too
>Served her missionFuck off
>>2897022>visit new place>walk around cus its interestingwoah dude
>>2897022There's pros and cons to both. Having visited Europe and lived in Japan. I'll explain why America is alright. The weather is irrelevant. I get in my car and drive with the A/C or heat on and don't get wet if it's raining. I live in the South and don't need anything bigger than a hoodie or a jacket.Don't have to wait on trains, don't have to worry about the train being delayed, don't have to squeeze in to a full traincar. Don't have to run up and down multiple stairs to catch the next train. I just get in my car and get where I want when I want. Traffic jams are usually avoidable in my city.Having a big backyard is nice because I can let my kids or dogs play in it and not have to worry about taking them anywhere unless I want to.That said, walkable communities exist in the U.S. they're for the vast majority very dirty and crime-ridden. This was the result of 60 years of govt planning and social engineering btw. They apparently like it this way. I've lived in a city center in the U.S. in my early 20's and it's not a place for families. Europe is apparently in a hurry to make their cities the same way. Munich was probably the best in Germany i visited though.
I'll be traveling to Romania in August, and since Ruse is only two hours away from Bucharest by bus, I've decided to spend 3-4 days in northern Bulgaria before I start exploring Romania. What other cities or landmarks in the north are worth seeing while I am there?
>>2896552Extremely boring ruins
>>2896552Is there anything worth seeing other than ruins in Plovdiv?>>2896556Any other suggestions?
>>2896291You probably know this already, but you should really go to Rila
>>2896935It’d be cool to visit someday, but it’s on the other side of the country. Varna was recommended to me, and it and Ruse seem like the only interesting spots up north.
Make a stop in Shumen to visit the 1300 Years Monument.
I want to post about my travels on social media, but I don't want to use facebook or instagram or twitter, cuz I don't like how the sites are run - is there a meaningful alternative? Tiktok you can only post videos I want to just post photos and text too.
>>2893696>hopefully turn that into a consulting business eventually.Yes Saar, pls redeem bisanes gud deal much money and wyman show bob vagene.Please get hit by a train.
>>2895789nobody here gives a shit about the places I go, not sure what you are looking for but it's not what I do
>>2896505>Not sure what>It's not
>>2893693I think the way to go is to make a semi-anonymized profile that only your friends know about. Avoids the random relatives and people you don't know well, but couldn't decline their friend request, from jumping into the comments on every post.But honestly, just make a blog. It's current year and anyone can grab a domain and bang out a little website so you can write and post pictures. Some randos will find it, but also you can just link it in your socials.
>>2897231What about facebook? There's lots of super knowledgable local boomers on there and I want to tap them for info but almost everyone uses their real full name on facebook and I don't wanna I guess you could use a fake name but it would be weird if you met them and you weren't that person I just am not sure what to do. I sorta used social media in 2005-2006 and gave up. >But honestly, just make a blog. It's current year and anyone can grab a domain and bang out a little website so you can write and post pictures.I just get so exhausted traveling and timing is so tight getting to bed early it would be hard to write and organize a blog and travel I guess the appeal of Instagram is short form blogging.
>How many times have you travelled abroad on vacation?>What do you most value when choosing locations abroad?>Top 3 places you've visited (If you have travelled)--->3 Popular places you think are overrated/have no desire to visit--->5 places you'd love to visit (Country and region/city)--Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2897066>How many times have you travelled abroad on vacation?About 2 10-day-long vacations a year (summer and winter), plus a few shorter long-weekend based trips scattered throughout. >What do you most value when choosing locations abroad?1. Interesting tourist sites. Can be anything from museums, monuments, historic sites, national parks, caves, mountains, etc. Just need some kind of cool thing to do each day instead of just "hanging out"2. Some cool nightlife or travel scene so I have a chance to actually meet people, and possible get laid (though I've been unsuccessful in the laid part so far). I like cities that are fun to just walk around in and have cool vibes.Many great places have both of these. >Top 3 places you've visited (If you have travelled)Berlin, Budapest, Tbilisi >3 Popular places you think are overrated/have no desire to visitI like most places I visit desu, but my least favorite main stop was Vienna. The sites were all cool, but the vibe of the city was pretty soulless. I think I'd like it more as 70 year old retiree with a wife, but as a young solo traveler I'd prioritize elsewhere.Among places I haven't been, I have no desire to visit Thailand. Cambodia and Vietnam just look more interesting, and all Thailand has is hookers, which I'm not interested in.>5 places you'd love to visit (Country and region/city)Too many to list. Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Kazakhstan, SEA, Russia, the Dakotas
My retired mother wants me to pick a location to travel to. I am poor and I have never in my adult life even taken time to consider such a thing. I don’t even know to decide.What are some things you consider meaningful or satisfying about traveling, and where have you succeeded in finding those things?
>>2896785>India>s3xAre you desperate?
>>2896827don't knock it till you try it man
>What do you like about travelinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6BWrZaNZ8I
>>2896774That's just the latest forced meme here, ignore him. This anon >>2896820 has the right idea, can't go wrong with Mediterranean Europe for a first time trip
>>2897207It's not a forced meme. There's tons of shit to see there and its a lot closer than Europe. Do you want to spend your time on a plane and going through security theater and being hassled for what's in your bags and on your phone all the time and permits and bullshit, or do you want to relax and see cool stuff?
Is this a psyop to prevent people from anything that might indicate friendship with animals? I'm not talking about some obviously abusive circuses and petting zoos, but I need honest answers! PETA and ALF/ELF really brainwashed the world...There are seldom places for people, especially children to travel to, as well.
>>2896742how is this travel relatedfuck off to /pol/ if you just want to bitch about "leftists" or whateverpeople who abuse animals are cunts. all circuses that have animals abuse them so fuck them
>>2896755Not all circuses abused animals, but well, in modern times, we could still reform petting zoos. Plumes plays in front of wild animals and sometimes pets and feeds them.
Circuses are just getting unpopular, regardless of animals. Can't remember the last time I had any interest in going to the circus.Petting zoos seem like a legal issue. They're not really mainstream to begin with, and you only really see them in small local fairs. Kids are obviously the target demographic, and it's all fun until a goat bites a child, and the parents sue the owners.
>>2896742>friendship>locking the other being in a cage for its entire lifeZoos are fucking lame anyway once you're over the age of like 12. Any adult man that wants to go to the zoo is just weird. Go watch a nature documentary or go travel to where they actually live so you can "befriend" them without an inch of plexiglass in between you and without holding a living thing captive for its whole life
>>2896758How do you think they train them? You think they just ask a lion politely to do a bunch of lame tricks? When it fucks up a performance you think they give it some Meow Mix and some warm milk to cheer it up? Come on bro...
What is there to do in Alaska?
>>2879880For the railfans here, the Alaska Railroad is an experience worth having. Much of the rolling stock was built in the 1950s, real tired-but-functional classics for what is technically still an operating rail line serving a developed country (old-fashioned walk-on service for homesteaders along the Hurricane Gulch spur, for example), not a purely touring/living-history outfit.
>>2880926>>2886438Having sat on a grand jury lately, it's a universal issue. Only two cases out of 30+ presented didn't involve someone drunk off their ass and I figure 80% or so were more white than any other ancestry. We're an attractive place for societal misfits and that comes with certain costs. Not too different from our wildlife - most are interesting, a few are dangerous. But weather, vehicle accidents, and foolhardy behavior are far greater hazards for outsiders.
>>2879880this has to be bait
I miss RadioShack.
>>2886438The vast majority have serious cognitive issues from inbreeding and everyone pretends not to see it. I genuinely don't understand how a lot of the women get by in life.
Do you make an effort to meet other solo travelers to have some temporary travel buddies, find locals to use as a "guide", or do you just stay alone the whole trip?
>>2896441Shut the fuck up if you have nothing to contribute
>>2897011>no one likes tranniesWhat about asian ones?
>>2896913All of this is too much hassle for a short trip to have fake conversation with people you'll never see again after a day or two. But that's what insecure faggots do because they need constant validation rather than doing things on their own.
>>2897185The only purpose of "meeting" people on trips is to get laid. Meet a woman? Opportunity to get laid. Meet a man? Opportunity to go to the bar with a wingman who can help you get laid It's all about getting laid
>>2897157those are called Lady boys. they don't believe that they are women
>take a shit in a third world country >sign in bathroom tells me not to flush toilet paper>do it anyway
>>2896004>implying I can't afford it
>>2894610I took a dump in the ladies toilet at a servo yesturday. Mens room had three cubicles. End one was occupied, so middle one was a nope, and other end one had no seat, so also nope. Barged into the ladies, no-one in there. Two cubicles. Got to work in one of them, nearly finished, and a roastie comes in. GTFO as quick as I could and escaped undetected. The perfect crime.I wonder if she noticed the ferocious WOOF of manbum?
>tourist asks for a restaurant recommendation >tell them a local spot is the best not only in the neighborhood but the city >it's actually the worst
>>Get off the tube in the airport to catch a flight, hungover as fuck.>>Immediately puke all over the nice marble flooring.
>Constantly give people advice on how to travel and what to do>Never set any foot on an airplane>Stay mostly at home anyway due to autismbux>Haven't left the neighborhood in 3 months
I want to spend 3 weeks in Japan, rent a place west of Kobe and drive around the countryside.Has anyone done this? My idea is to rent a apartment for a month (around 800 quid), use it as a base where I can cook food myself. Needs to be small town so parking is free but big enough that it has a supermarket. Rent a car and do day trips all around the place, maybe staying overnight a couple of times for longer distances.Best I can tell there are companies like livemax that rent monthly or weekly even to foreigners. I already drive around Japan last time so no problems there. I'd be really interested in hearing first hand experiences from people who've done something like this.
>>2895067We're going in October so shouldn't be too hot. I know about tolls, we mostly drove on the old parallel roads to avoid it since we were in no hurry anywhere. I was amazed how deserted those roads are. There were sections of 10km+ which were single lane roads with hardly any passing places and I never met anyone going the other way. But I'm definitely not getting an SUV again.Rest areas in Japan are amazing, they sort of double as visitor centre for the area. When we drove through gifu we even bought some things in them I still use - paper wrapped tea caddies. It did not compute with me that a rest area would stock good tea but the senchas I got there were a solid 4/5. They directed us to interesting things in the area as well.We rented from toyota, it felt expensive. Compared to a day rental we did on the spur of the moment in Shizuoka it was double the price almost. What rental do you recommend?
>>2895137>>2895139Yep agreed on all counts. Got some shockingly good packaged mochi from one (made from local grape harvest, if it translated right?).>AirBnBdefinitely comes with a tourist/familiarity/name-brand premium attached. I hunted through places like Rakuten, Stay Japan, and the local vacation/tourism/real estate companies they often list for, for ones willing to deal w/ foreigners. Overall much nicer abodes for the same rate.>Car rentalI wasn't the one who booked them, but we used Toyota the first trip and Avis the 2nd. Both seemed fine, pretty standard check-in+service. Hatchbacks each time, a Corolla and then the Suzuki equivalent.
The random roadside finds are always a delight, too.
We don't really go to museums much but the Takenaka Carpentry Tools museum was an exception, best museum except the some of the British onesAnyway, decided to split the stay across two places, one in Mihara, one past Hiroshima within Driving distance of Kyushu. works out at 50 quid on that vrbo per night which is acceptable.Any recs for such a place past Hiroshima? Needs to have decent supermarkets within a 15 min drive, parking and quiet. The second criteria is good position for day trips - nature, vernacular architecture, small towns with festivals.
given enough opportunities you can just randomly bump into some flower arrangement competition or other random activities, my language is so poor but we'd somehow manage get round and people were nice enough to have some bumble through things, presumably screaming inside gaijin go home
>in Paris, travelling alone>went to Park de la Villette today, which is like some sort of urban renewal local council experiment that is partly run down, partly cool liminal space, mostly boring concrete park>went to Paris zoo earlier and it was okay>manatees were a highlight >hear and sun were intense on the first day but I got used to itI have only eaten at Burger King or McDonald's on each day, and have only had Starbucks coffee. I can't bear to go into a non-chain place to eat because it feels like the people who work there look down on me.I have talked to no one.In the late evenings I either browse the internet on my phone, read a book, or play GBA ROMs on my laptop.I think London's parks mog Paris's parks.When I see modern French cultural initiatives, it feels like they're trying really hard to pretend they're not fully colonised by the USA or Anglos. Their Rugby final was on TV and Google said the players make an average of 240k euros per year. It feels like their publicly subsided culture is in much healthier shape than the UK but it makes the presence of life support more visible.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2893634there is a known psychological phenomenon called Paris Syndrome
>>2893634Are you still alive OP? The heatwave in france right now is grotesque
As a french who lived in Paris for 6 years, it depends what you are looking for. If you love museum and concert, certainly a really good place to be. Most of the bar are really cool IF you know the area and have people to go with. Moreover Parisian people are well know to be dickhead. Despicable people nobody love them and kind of hard to approach.But if you are like 20 years old it is really easy to meet some people and hang out for the night. At 30 it can be different.I moved out because I am more into nature but I had a great time doing a lot of concert completely drunk.Most of the people go out in the north east of the city now, like Belleville, Check the gigs at "la maroquinerie" or "le petit bain". Otherwise "glazart" is a famous place for the after party if it still exists. "Le pont éphémère" can be nice too.If you are into metal we have a website called "sueur de metal" which register almost every metal gigs, you can find some.
>>2893704Yeah we had that retarded larp last year.
>>2897167>Most of the bar are really cool IF you know the area asuch as?
>NEET born into appalling abuse of every kind you can imagine, raised in foster care where it continued, never able to make friends or connections, constant mental health crisis. For the last two years I have lived off of rice and beans, tap water and black instant coffee. I have saved every form of welfare I have recieved in that time apart from my weekly shop of £25 a week. I finally got a passport for the frist time in my life. I want to go somehwere totally foreign, and make a new life or i will kill myself. I have nothing to lose. I have nothing keeping me here. I experience no joy or hapiness or human connection. Where can I go on this money and simply stay illegally and live an undocumented life and live some experiences worth living. Please give me real stuff im doing this or killing myself so please don't litter my thread talking about irrelevant bullshit. I have no interest in fucking whores or doing drugs before someone suggests either of those things.
>>2897165Go to China, teach English. Get a fake degree online.
>>2897165Why don't you strike back against the people who harmed you and the state that enabled them?
>>2897165Depends on what you enjoy. Do you simply want to live alone off the grid, or do you want to meet new people and make new connections in a foreign country?
>>2897165Go do seasonal work in some place like Alaska or something. Most places that take on seasonal workers will cover pretty much all of your expenses so its a good way to save money. After the season ends just travel around a bit until you find a place you like
go to your local church
