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>>2876983
It's a lonely place even if you're Japanese. It gets a hundred times worse if you're not.

Anyone who moves to Japan ends up in either of two situations: (1) you leave after 1-2 years when the novelty wears off, (2) you have literally nothing to go back to so you marry some 4/10 gaijin hunter and live in a bubble where your only interaction with society is through their wife; you are approximately 80% likely to get divorced after she gives birth, after which you will be on your own again and posting desperate threads on /r/japanlife for advice.

Japan is a fantastic travel destination but, as a place to live in, it gets shilled mostly by weebs who want to pretend like they live in their favorite anime and only know their imagined version of Japan, not the real country.

>>2879018
This, except it's missing 3) You learn Japanese, don't exclusively hang out with other gaijin / your gaijin hunter wife who speaks English and adapt to the culture. Being successful in Japan isn't an impossible pipe dream, but it requires hard work. Something most of the weebs who end up here aren't capable of.

>>2879034
a lot of shitters get hard filtered by language

>>2879034
IME I would not say that people who are fluent in Japanese are any happier in Japan long term than people who don't speak it.
It's not the language barrier that gets to people, it's the cultural barrier and how different the society is.

>>2879059
If you're autistic, you're born to be Japanese and there's no cultural barrier. The people who struggle the most and go home are the highly social people. The ones who talk to their families for 3 hours on the phone every single fucking day.

For people who don't care about their family/have no family and just want a place with modern conveniences where they can also be left alone, Japan isn't bad at all.

>>2878842
>A burger flipper in a US city makes more than a doctor in Europe
No. If you mean eastern europe, eg. Romania (but they are in the EU so anyone with a brain moves to germany), so like real shitholes like Russia lol. Google search says $20-32k/yr, and $32k/yr is minimum full-time wage in western europe like UK, France, Germany, etc.

In the past especially after WW2 america was very rich compared to europe, but now while it is richer, because I mean its a continent not a country, of 340M people (which is a huge market which by itself makes America the hegemon of the western world), on the ground level you don't necessarily feel the difference in wealth anymore. Highly trained professionals on the upper end may earn more, and the lifestyle of a large house with an acre is more doable too due to the amount of land. But at the same time, while Id rather live in the USA compared to Germany or the UK, Id rather live in France or Italy than the USA just bc the quality of life in the culture is higher. Better food, warmer people, the cities are absolutely beautiful, etc. You just want to go outside all the time it doesnt matter where. Additionally europeans are just more intelligent and cosmopolitan people, one of the simplest metrics is simply bilingualism. Im british btw.

>>2878847
burger flippers in USA tier one cities aren't clearing less than $40k if they're full time mate

Quality of life between rich and poor is similar in US so might as well slummaxx while grinding the bag, pocket your money, and go somewhere you enjoy

>>2878849
In times as spiritually devoid as now, JBW / just have a first world passport is the saving grace for us fellows, I dislike doomposters. Our ancestors scoured the world in search of opportunity and we should do the same

>>2877926
I think you're kinda scary

>>2878849
>The average wage for a McDonald's employee in Los Angeles is $18/hour
That's $2500 after taxes. $30K per year to be a McSlave. You need actual cooking experience to earn more in a real restaurant.
>>2878847
So much of America was built decades ago and barely improved since then. Go to many American downtowns and they still have ancient incandescent traffic lamps on a timer, despite all the massive growth in GDP. Streets are bumpy and in poor condition, even though there are grand government buildings all over the city center. Countless millions of dollars devoted to bureaucrat desk space. Still, so much space is wasted, not put to any meaningful economic use. But in a way that's what America is supposed to be, the opposite of an Old World shithole where every square meter is occupied by something, yet the overall GDP remains very low. In a country where money is principally made from money, you don't need snack vendors and tailors on every block.

Japan suburb is the most soulless residential development in existence. I rather live in cage in big city than Japanese suburb

>>2878317
What place isn't less cozy than 20 years ago though

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>>2878198
>I'm from California, your image is fucking stupid because you have to have some really magic nat 20 dice roll to make something look that good
you are literally retarded, you can literally get anime keyframes just by shooting photos randomly, picrel

>>2878253
>knowingly commit a crime while traveling
>suffer consequences
wow

>>2878253
their jails are actually very comfy. people commit crimes over there for no other reason other than to be incarcerated

>>2875973
Take the strongest sleeping pill you got on the plane and knock out before you get there

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>fly into new country
>land
>go eat a good meal
>go the fuck to sleep (maybe with a sleep aid)
>wtf it's fixed?!?!?
Yeah if you don't mind sleeping on the plane and waking up at 10AM during the flight you can help counter it, I just found after traveling for a few years just assume the day you land is a bust of maybe see 1 thing, grab a good meal, sleep.

>>2875973
fly in business class, even if you sleep well in economy you will feel like shit

force yourself to not go to sleep when you want to but wait for the actual evening time in the new time zone and then crash

>>2878734
This is how you get ripped off on arrival, by becoming a tourist zombie who sleepwalks into a taxi scam. Fuck that. I drink tea and coffee on long flights to stay awake, because it's much more miserable to feel sleepy and unable to rest your head than it is to stay wakeful the whole time.

>>2876479
Jetlag is feeling very sleepy at 4 PM, taking a nap at 5 and waking up at midnight wondering what the hell you're gonna do for the next six hours.

Theatre in Covent Garden (london is the best city in the world for theare)
Small music and comedy clubs in Camden (not as good as it once was)
Trendy "boxpark" place in Shoreditch
Soho/Carnaby Street, more traditional shopping and restaurants

Food:
Fish and Chips but not at a tourist trap place, you want a smallish out the way place that isn't table service.
Dishoom: it's a meme but it's still a reliably good quality Indian restaurant
Afternoon tea: light lunches with cakes and tea/champagne often in a luxury setting
Sunday roast/tradititional english: The Devonshire or The Pig and Butcher

>>2878926
Thank you

Nobody in the world except you cares about filipino "architecture". Every time you start spouting off about this shit you wind up sounding totally deranged.

The more flips going on these rants the more i want to go fuck a filipina

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>>2878948
I just find it amusing that his hero (apparently some national hero in the philippines) was a literal cuckold and his flip wife couldn't resist a BWC bull

>>2878891
Jesus Christ, Juan, this is only making it even worse for you.

>>2878899
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>>2878923
This is the most autistic deb8 I’ve seen in years, and I’m a part time tard-wrangler

>>2870488
Meanwhile Germans want me to cry eternally for Dresden.

>>2878684
I think that's mostly /pol/ kiddies and groypers who keep harping on Dresden, I think actual Germans aside from the occasional nationalist (read: 4chan user) realize that it was brutal but made sense at the time based on what the NSDAP had done to others, like the destruction of East Prussia as a consequence for sperging out one too many times and invading everyone

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I grew up in rural Alaska and let me tell you that if you're a city-dweller who romanticizes rural living, you're a fool. There are very few things in this world that are more terrifying than crazy forest people with nothing to lose and who have been heavily indoctrinated by multiple lifetimes of inbreeding and pseudo-religious indoctrination. I was in an upper-middle-class town and we still had adults telling us multiple times per day not to go out at night alone because some psycho from the mountains might come down and either chop your head off (if you were lucky) or drag you away to his isolated nightmare dungeon (if you weren't).

The place is LOUSY with cults. Nobody who's the result of generations spent in rural Alaska knows their dick from a garden snake, so they're incredibly easy to heavily manipulate if you're even the slightest bit charismatic. It wasn't just one cult either, they were separated by race (white cults, aboriginie cults), societal status (freemasons are huge there), and location (American cults are markedly different than Canadian cults, which are apparently worse). In my school we had frequent demonstrations on why you should never ever ever join a cult, nor you should you ever ever ever interact with someone in one.

My grandfather was a cop and his entire generation were still patrolling the streets upwards of age 70 because the new crop of police just weren't big enough. The streets were silent and dark at night and anything could happen, so you always had to be on guard and everyone was indoors by 6:00PM at the latest, even during the summer (days didn't get that much longer there). Eventually my family got out and moved down to the mainland when the kids were grown. I wouldn't go back there if you paid me a million bucks.

>>2858792
lol, you fucked some human trafficking victim

>>2878870
That's just rural America. Backwoods northern Alabama is pretty similar in the amount of middle of fucking nowhere cults out in the woods. Majority of them are firmly based around taking a shitload of drugs and fucking a lot though. But sometimes they do get pretty fucked up when you have a group of people that have been very isolated and on heroine for months to years and their sense of reality is just fucking gone.

>>2877854
For most languages, I don't think teachers are very expensive. If you're learning a language spoken in a lower-income country you really shouldn't have to spend more than a few hundred dollars a month. Not a trivial expense, but given how quickly it accelerates your learning, it's well worth it. Group classes are much cheaper but mostly a waste of time unless you're looking to socialize. They're also hard to find for lesser-studied languages beyond the beginner level.

It's also really difficult to self-study certain subskills, like pronunciation. Obviously everyone thinks their pronunciation is correct, but without a native speaker to actually confirm that they can understand you, you can't really claim any degree of proficiency. There is software for checking pronunciation of course but I don't think it's any substitute to having a genuine conversation.

One more thing for the coomers, learning a language in SEA (and China as well) is a literal cheat code for getting laid and punching way, way above your weight class. Even with A2 Vietnamese I was pulling nonstop, especially having learned the Southern accent which is apparently "cute". If you actually studied hard for like, 9 months or so (sufficient for A2 if you're not retarded), you would be the king of the passport bros.

>>2877860
Cooming is the best way to learn a language. A pick up artist who games in his target language will be 100x more capable in his target language than some bookcel who pays retards to sing him nursery rhymes

>>2876240
After learning the basic 300-400 words just get childrens audiobooks like harry potter in the language and watch tv in the language for 3-4 hours a day and you'll begin to understand most of what people say. You can practice speaking with people in vr chat.

>>2876349
how are you comfortable speaking english to strangers that clearly don't speak it and you're in their country? i would feel rude

>>2878573
It's easy I just walk up in my cowboy boots and start talking loudly at them. If they don't know english I just ask where the nearest non retard is who speaks english.

>>2878618
The Great Loop is a water route

>>2878617
>Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville
Have you done it yourself? Or just want to? I'm curious how much time people generally spend in each major stopping point

>>2878607
The point is this is done in a boat anon

>>2878649
better make it an ICE Breaker given the current conditions

>>2878585
>going to fucking Clewiston, FL and skipping Miami and the FL Keys
next level retardation

>>2878838
You may want to check YOUR comprehension and precision of expression - "not a polluted T3 shithole" clearly implies that it's not polluted, or at least is not as polluted as what one would expect from a "T3 shithole". But it is one of the most polluted major cities in the country, so both are wrong, and no reasonable reader is going to infer that your point is really "its a polluted *T2* shithole, not *T3*"

The pollution talk...compared to Hanoi, pollution in China is nothing, and the CPC actually cares about this shit unlike the Vietnamese Communist Party, or Modi in India, so don't fret about it. Somehow on this board, it's completely okay if some cities in Thailand are in the top 30 of the most polluted cities in the world, but in Choyna, oh my god it's a huge issue, don't go!!!!!! Go figure.

>>2878902
Agreed the pollution is largely a non issue. Don't worry about it at all unless picking a city for full time, long term living. I am just spazzing about the other anon's imprecise wording

>>2878902
>CPC
Knee howwwww

>>2878893
t3 coal-mining cities are far more polluted than Chengdu
Beijing and Xi'an usually have worse AQI too
in my experience it wasn't that bad

btw include european russia as europe and PNG as oceania sorry guys map sucks ass

>Europe
My whole life
>Africa
1 week stag trip in Accra
>Asia, America, Oceania
Never

>>2874642
Drug addicted homeless all over the downtown. The actual city is nice but the fentanyl-folding zombies ruin it.

>>2873417
Yes. Do it at, or before peak (Columbus Day, typically). Max, up to a week after. This is for Northern New England.
The southern states get an extra week or so depending how far south.
Foliage varies every year, there's no predicting it until it's starting to happen.
People have different preferences, but IMO VT is the comfiest one. NH a close second. Otherwise, stick to the coastal towns.

>>2874642
The area's still one of, if not the nicest areas of VT. But the city went from being an unbelievably cool town to Portlandia with more fentanyl.

>>2874545
lol u serious? The small towns in new england blow their canadian counterparts completely out of the water. If you did your road trip in Canada you would be completely bored out of your mind

Why would you ever go to America, ever

>>2873417
Yes yes yes! But rent a car... I was skeptical (I'm Dutch) and did it as part of a larger US trip and it was magical. I love New Hampshire and Vermont.

>>2877250
Provence is definitely a may up to sept/oct travel, at least for nature. But the villages are also cuter when nature is beautiful, so yeah.

>>2872521
>Most overhated country
Unironically the United States of America

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>>2877250
Nature will still be great but you'll only find retired boomers living there year round, and you wont be able to swim

Same here, I was kind of stupid and fell for the 4chan memes about france, that's probably why I whiplashed so hard and became a francaboo. Had to go to paris for work, was shocked at how much nicer it was than people said it was. Been there twice for vacation now, I don't even speak french and french is hard as fuck but I don't care I'm still gonna keep going

t. amerifat

>>2872521
they slave africans at Madagascar, i wish i could kill the french

>>2877923
>What's the difference between business and 1st anyway?
privacy and time

>>2877307
>we're so blessed to live in this day and age where everywhere is so accessible.
Those days will be over soon if TPTB have their way. No carbon credits + low social credit score? No plane trip for you

>>2878115
Carbon shit is dead. Now we just have to worry about Iran blowing up all the wells, pipes, and refineries because israel decided to fuck the entire world

>>2877858
>and some retard says "ah you need to take this weird mix of unholy pharmaceuticals" or whatever
This is so fucking funny. People will unironically drug themselves into oblivion in the strictest anti-drug place on the planet just to avoid being consciously present in a metal tube for a couple of hours. Truly mind-boggling.
>i fucking love it too. i recently travelled from europe to asia and i didn't want to get off the plane
Based

>>2877339
I hate potheads so much it's unreal.

>>2877576
Acceptable mgm properties are aria, bellagio, mandalay, cosmo, mgm grand, park mgm. the older theme propeties (NY/NY, Luxor) are all trash. Stay at Park MGM if you're poor. I think it's a nice property for the price.

>>2877619
>, the Internet sucked and
Did you pay for it?
>12$ ATM fees
The dollar sign goes before the numbers and thats a normal atm fee inside a casino.

Goin to vegas next month, not my first time, but first time staying off-strip (gold nugget) and actually renting a car. Im gonna be there for 3 full days (not counting the half days/nights of flying in and out). Whats some cool shit to go see off-strip? So far the only thing i have planned is the hoover dam. My old man suggested the grand canyon since he and my mom like going there and staying at those little chalets on the rim, but i told him thats like a 4h drive from vegas so a bit more than im down to do for a daytrip.

Suggestions?

>>2878662
red rock canyon is closer and very nice

>>2878670
That looks perfect ill check that out, thanks brah!