I can get $500pm for the rest of my life but I'm 45yo already. This payment will likely double and triple in years but what life can I live like this?I'm absolutely open to anything. I'm thinking of just permanently walking. Maybe walking across Europe to Asia. Maybe live in a commune (I have some skills).What can I do?
>be OP>come in asking how to live off 500/mo>actually means see the world>gets handed some good advice on why it's stupid and too little>melts down about how retarded everyone isThis board always attracts the best and brightest huh?Trekking is fine but even on 500/mo it's going to be rough to keep going.
>>2896042>Walk from Europe to Asia camping along the way. Cycle it maybe. Go live in the jungle. Volunteer teach in the Himalayas in Pakistan. There's loads of shit, you're just dumb."I saw a YT person do it" - AnonYeah not seen or told was the clout they had for freebees, off camera spending they forgot to show in their budget, and the lack of caring because they had tons of cash ready to end the adventure early if it sucked too hard
Why does this place have so many doomers who say you can't?
>>2897279Because someone being content on $500 a month “walking,” threatens the validity/legitimacy of me spending 2-3k a month and paying for sex.If more people aren’t doing that, it lessens my credibility in doing that and I start to feel like some kind of loser who wasted his money instead of living it up. The more people there are who aren’t doing what I’m doing, the more invalid my lifestyle feels. When more people say “I’ll never pay for sex” it starts to really make me angry, like it’s way more indignant to do that and I’m actually a massive loser
>>2897287500 a month is less than basic unemployment in the USA and they don't even check that shit. How the fuck is OP going to walk across 2 continents.
I’m a 25 year old dude who’s an officer in the American military. Lately life has been kinda miserable and I have an opportunity to potentially shake things up. I have the opportunity to deploy to Japan for the next three years. I gotta make up my mind within the next three weeks though. Can’t say where the base is, but it’s in one of the major metropolitan areas. I have been in zero serious romantic relationships in my life and have only had sex one singular time. I speculate that I may have mild undiagnosed autism but that’s neither here nor there. I have a pretty good social life here in the states, I got along great with everyone at my unit male and female, but no romantic connections.If any of you guys aren’t from the US, it’s pretty common for people in the military to get married young, usually by like 23 or so. I’m the only officer in my office who isn’t married or about to be. It’s been getting on my nerves lately. Life has been incredibly lonely. I’m worried I go to Japan, have an awesome time, but then I’ll still be single by the time I turn 28 and basically have nothing to show for the whole thing. And no, I’m not going over there to try and find my Yoko Ono. I don’t think that’d work out anyways with the security clearance. I’ve also seen people be completely burned by their romantic relationships (getting cheated on and being given STIs, costly divorces, spousal abuse, giving birth to severely disabled kids, etc.). I mean, obviously any of that shit would be worse than what I’m going through right now. Long story short: Am I stupid to consider not going to Japan because I’m worried I’ll be romantically lonely over there?
>>2896592>I don’t think that’d work out anyways with the security clearance.Is this actually an issue though. I thought you just tell your job and its fine
>>2896592>I’m a 25 year old dude who’s an officer in the American military. Lately life has been kinda miserable>I’m the only officer in my office who isn’t married or about to be. It’s been getting on my nerves lately. Life has been incredibly lonely.>should I re-up for 3 more years?yeah bro sounds like a great idea, sign your life away to the government until you're almost 30, perfect way to find a wife for uhhhhhh career advancement I guess
>If any of you guys aren’t from the US, it’s pretty common for people in the military to get married young, usually by like 23 or so. I’m the only officer in my office who isn’t married or about to beYou could have just said everyone does it for the extra benefits, being able to live off-base, etc. Also a hotspot for cuckolding and getting BLACKED
>>2896592>I’ll still be single by the time I turn 28 and basically have nothing to show for the whole thingThat's pretty normal now, for better or for worse. I wouldn't get hitched just because you have fomo from other people getting married. Thats very womanly behavior.
You will make nice meat for Chinese missiles and drones
I have media skills and I speak perfect English, no accent (I swear!). Am I still fucked? Or do I need to be a lawyer or some shit?>inb4 stay in your country asshole
I just feel so isolated in my country.
Just do it man
I want to move to the USA too but Trump made it hard to get sponsorship unless you are a pajeet.
>>2897249Isolated and hated
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.
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...
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?
I'm caressing the idea of traveling the hungarian countryside for a week, starting and ending in Budapes to meet some fellas.I'm getting some idea of potential bits of itinarery (gyor-sopron, Székesfehérvár-lake balaton-pecs, Kecskemét-Szeged, Visegrad-esztergom, Hajdúszoboszló-Debrecen), but I'm wondering:-How well connected are hungarians cities with bus and trains?-How cyclable is the Hungarian countryside? Would a week of cycling from city to city be possible? Best direction to take from Budapest?-Is it easy to come back to budapest in a train with the bike at the end, since I'd probably end up quite far?-Any place that's both cool to see and reachable with either public transport or bicycle?
Oh, and also>How safe is a bike with a basic lock in Hungary?
Hungary is Budapest heavy. There is enough for many days in Budapest, and the others are kind of one off sights.I think you might be disappointed if you bike all the way for a couple of buildings.Check the cities you really want, that list is too long imo.I don't remember bike trains.
>>2893382The idea is to use a week alone before joining up with people in Budapest.There must be areas of Hungary that are just nice and pleasant to travel through, with the satisfaction, after a few hours, of reaching someplace nice, and repeat the process 5-6 times?
>>2893061bruh u think ur in dc?
>>2893055>How well connected are hungarians cities with bus and trains?there is a direct train and bus service between all major towns and cities in the country, while smaller settlements can be reached via connectionscheck the below link for specifics: https://jegy.mav.hu/?lang=en>How cyclable is the Hungarian countryside? Would a week of cycling from city to city be possible? Best direction to take from Budapest?the Hungarian countryside is generally bike-friendly. major cycling hubs are the area around Lake Balaton, Lake Tisza and the Danube Bend. you can also take the Eurovelo 6 cycling route running along the Danube straight down to Croatia if that's something that tickles your fancy>Is it easy to come back to budapest in a train with the bike at the end, since I'd probably end up quite far?it shouldn't be a problem - just make sure to buy an additional bicycle ticket>Any place that's both cool to see and reachable with either public transport or bicycleI'd say Lake Tisza is one of those hidden gems that you should definitely check out - there's a bike-friendly train service running between Budapest-Keleti and Debrecen all throughout the summer. my advice is to get off at Tiszafüred, enjoy the world-class bike infrastructure around the lake, have a dip here and there (with a nice lángos and a wine spritzer thrown in, preferably), and either go back to Budapest or continue on your journey the Danube Bend is another good biking spot, Vác, Nagymaros, Zebegény are some of the more scenic stops along the route - and it's so close to Budapest you really can't go wrong with this one.
Does Seoul have any redeeming features? Have to go there for a thing, and have been there before, but just seems a completely boring, dirty, soulless hellscape of a city. Picrel, it’s one of the “must see” things to do in Seoul (Sewoon Sangga)
>>2895143The choice between Korea, Japan, and Taiwan comes down to subjective taste because they are so similar
>>2886261>muh insecuritiesno one cares lil bro
>>2885434Busan is kind of the LA to Seoul's NYC. Go there if you want to visit the beach and encounter the Korean mafia.
>>2895143>It’s the original, superior versionWhat's the original?Japan is old and not superior anymore.
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where is the best place to live in australia
Australia is full. Migrants go home
>>2875397bump
>>2893462>>2893466>>2894119Having just travelled to Auckland and Wellington, it is fucking crazy how dogshit Auckland is and how much better Wellington is in comparison. I don't know what it is, but being in Auckland felt like being in a soulless and shitty American big city but with better buses. Its probably because its way bigger and way more populated. Wellington was really nice. The only time I'll ever go to Auckland again is for that aquarium and the Hobbiton thing before flyting straight to Wellington.That being said, the Weta Workshop experience in Auckland was way better than the one in Wellington, but that's probably because the Auckland one is purely a tourist thing while the one in Wellington is an actual active workshop.
>>2875414is sydney/melbourne a good place for a solo trip?
>>2877627>6 hours of min wage>sharehouse roomThis is $150 a week anonWasn't even that cheap when I lived there a decade ago
We're screened for dangerous items in a very zealous security process. So why can't little kids see the cockpit like back in the day before 9/11?
>>2886690Because no amount of screening will ever make things completely safe, so extra layers of security are needed such as a locked cockpit. Also you can actually visit the flight deck once the plane has landed and shutdown at the gate. Just ask the cabin crew nicely and they will ask the captain.
>>2886693>On a long flight, pilots must be bored when up in the air doing barely anything for hours.that's what flight attendants are for
>>2886690im sorry for all the kids
>>2889414You guys giving me a job or what? Im the most entertaining motherfucker on here
I hate brown people so much it's unreal
I’ve gotta spend August in Manila (VA exams) I’m coming from Pattaya, can yall suggest a neighborhood? Internet is telling me makati but idk anything about Manila
>>2896583Who are you fooling nigger? New York and Berlin has several times more the number of whores than Manila but you lie through your teeth.
>>2896598Retarded bot comment. You need a new llm, this one sucks.
>>2896029Filipinos allied with the power (USA) which violently subjugated and colonized their population instead of choosing self-rule as an ally of Japan (like the native populations in other Asian colonies did). As a result they got their shit pushed in bigtime, and to this day Filipinos continue seething over the consequences of their own stupid choices.
>>2896971retard
>>2896971>The proposed objectives of this union were to ensure economic self-sufficiency and cooperation among the member states, along with resisting the influence of Western imperialism and Soviet communism.[4] In reality, militarists and nationalists saw it as an effective propaganda tool to enforce Japanese hegemony.[3] The latter approach was reflected in a document released by Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare, An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus, which promoted Japanese supremacist theories.[5] Japanese spokesmen openly described the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere as a device for the "development of the Japanese race."[6]Nigga how stupid is u?>filipino intellectualsNo wonder you're comfort women
My company has an office in Austin, any austintards here gimme reasons not to move there? I can stay where I am (Ireland) but I work fully remote most of the time, and I'm bored and want to make a shift somewhere new. Never been to america, have other options but thought I'd consider this one before ruling it out. I also don't have to go to austin, could be anywhere in the states if anyone has any genuine good recs
>>2896941fuck does that even mean bro? u posted cringe
>>2896941It's more worth visiting than freaking Wichita, that's for sure.
>>2896945>>2896948Look, I get where he's coming from. All the major streamers seem to be from Austin, and they are young and occasionally beautiful. You're certainly going to find younger people there than other cities in Texas.
>>2897006>>2894993The only reason they settled in Austin is because Texas doesn't have state income tax. And it happens to be the quirk chungus-est city in Texas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mILfbvj0xtkStuntman Mike is 50 here and he pulled a young lady. I think anyone sub-40 will be fine.
>>2894892Anywhere with sweltering heat is totally unacceptable for life past the age of 30. I also can’t stand seeing large groups of people outside enjoying their lives. I want everyone indoors and outside to be shrouded in fog under grey skies
Anyone teaching English right now? How is it? I can't get a non blue collar job with my degree so I'm looking to head to vietnam.
>>2895233No u
>>2881409>burger flippers making $24/hrthe fuck? no they don’t
>>2881430where do you work in Thailand? My dad taught english in university in bangkok (Suan dusit) in the early 200s didn't make enough to send home but lived a good life there
>>2895453>the fuck? no they don’tin california, burger flippers get 20 bucks now. not unreasonable that maybe some fancier places like five guys or in-n-out would pay more.
>>2893305found the poor amerifag
