>begin digital nomad>hear thailand is great for exercise, healthy foods, cheap living, good bars, paradise for this kind of stuffreality:>Beers are overpriced in all pubs 3.5-4 USD for CHANG piss, want to drink from 711? LOL nope not till 11AM not even Muslim Malaysia is this bad, so if you work US timezone you better remember to fully stock>Bars either filled with old Europoors or ~finding myself~ mid-20-somethings who shit up the atmosphere 1/2 a second after bringing up I am American>Food is kinda not that healthy? Everything is fried and questionable. Decent meals are 7-12 dollars if eating out. "cooking at your place" is cheap but it was in the US>Living cheap is okay I guess, sure 475/mo for a half way decent studio is fine I guess. Cheap places want some stupid amount for electricity and utilities.>Internet seems shit, it's either fine until rain or weird latency issues especially during storms. Very weird how little free wifi is at places you think would have it. >Gyms here suck, tried to come here to get shredded but the lack of hygiene by locals and the annoying old timers that just hang out to hit on the girls on the treadmills is weird also why does every song here have to be some shitty cover of a good American song?>Tourist spots all look way better in the picture>air quality keeps making me get Claritin but for some retarded reason can only buy in packs of 10>beach is okay I guess? I'd rather just zip down to PR though.>DUDE WEED LMAO everywhere is really fucking annoying from the streets to the beach. Fuck I thought I was in LA's bullshit again.I don't really see the value savings wow 4 dollars for Chinese budlight amazing or 300B for chicken and rice with egg. People made it sound like flaunting a few bucks here and there made your weekend that of a king, as if. I think I spent less in Seoul all things considered while having a higher standard of living, here I couldn't be more unimpressed. Why does this shit get so much praise?
DUDE PUSSY LMAO
>>2888716nigga multiple people have already said this, go to cambodia or laos and get your head cut off while trying to crush puss, it aint 2004 anymore (but on some archive sites you can watch those videos, archive.ph recently removed them)
>>2888721>>2888719I'm just trying to save up enough to buy a house back home anon. I don't care about the pussy game all that much. I just wanted to 3 years off, SEA on a 750-800/mo budget while banking everything else into savings and investments...
>>2888728Lower tier Chinese cities are the budget king if all you care about is quality of life and cost. If you want pussy and weed and you're willing to slum it India is an even cheaper option but you will be making heavy compromises in your standard of livingIn general if you don't pay for pussy, East Asia > Southeast Asia imo
>>2888729Thanks but no thanks, China is blocked by all metrics with work. India is india.SEA has enough countries to cycle through on visas, and I kind of like the slight culture changes. I just expected more from all the hype Thailand seems to get from everyone I know and people online. I never realized how much of a fucking steal HCMC was...
>>2888734You can't into setting up your own proxy with a VPS? Are you HR?"India is india" is why normalniggers don't go there and how it remains a hidden gemI'm sure vietnam is good but that's in the process of being enshittified like thailand. indonesia seems ok. malaysia sucks, thailand sucks, laos sucks, cambodia sucks, philippines is basically india but double the price. would rather cycle taiwan/japan/korea or something
>>2888740Anon getting a Chinese visa other than the 144hr free one is not viable while here in SEA. I also have google-fi as my provider and yeah it works, but I'd rather not deal with the BS once my Data gets turned off after 90 days and have to deal with my self hosted VPN/VPS that can go down at any time. Due to whatever.India, I don't care how much it is defended not doing it, especially with the cheapo flights being cancelled and the extreme temps+typhoons they get. We have offices there and when typhoons hit we have to basically play guess if they flood or not.>would rather cycle taiwan/japan/korea or somethingFor a budget of 800/mo I am going to get a shed and live off discount ramen. No thanks
>>2888741wfh cucks are manchildren
>>2888742That's right, anonGet back to the officeMr. Shekelstein said you might get a 10% raise if you work just a little harder this year
>>2888743Swing and a miss, employim
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>>2888716>muh pubsCan't believe people are still going to Thailand to drink in fucking pubs, knowing that they are all run by criminals as a place to do criminal business. Go have your 62 baht ($1.99) Leo at the food court / night market, where only honest talk can be had because listening ears are all around.>food is not that healthyThere are healthy restaurants, but you're not finding them in your area. Or else they charge insane markups for a handful of greens with your meat. >free wifithat's what you're supposed to get the ZOMG 1199 baht unlimited tourist data SIM card for. That way you never have to use WiFi, or be concerned about running out of data.>ClaritanAllergy fag. You live too clean and that's why you suffer from allergies. Try being dirty like a jeet for a change. Your allergies will go away.>>2888742Chonburi and the eastern shore of the Gulf has thousands of "boutique" businesses which basically exist to separate cux from their bux. They always come here for the modernity, then bitch about the high prices and stinginess of the population.>>2888729China is unsuitable in winter.>b-but china numba won!No, it's not. China has no protection from Siberian gust fronts and other continental climate patterns like South and Southeast Asia do. China is unsuitable in winter..
>>2888829I was in west china in the winter and it was fine
>>2888829Some people like Bars/Pubs, especially drinking piss like Changs to be at least air conditioned.
>>2888742>living in a low cost of living country for 3 years while I save up massive amounts of money to buy a house is cuck shitSure anon, sounds great.
>>2888716did you imbibe in ladyboys?
>>2888860>paying american prices to live in a "low col" country>wageslaving for the privilege of paying $500 a month in property tax + HOA fee, forever
>>2888829>China is unsuitable in the winter>What is the entirety of the country south of Wenzhou
>>2888863>>wageslaving for the privilege of paying $500 a month in property tax + HOA fee, foreveIDK where you plan to live, but 500 in taxes per month is for a mansion. Like your yearly tax might be ~1200-3000, assuming you apply for all the benefits and assess it for taxes. You'd have to be something really spicy there. Picrel, europoors would kill for these tax rates>HOAI'm not a Karen so no lol. I just want to avoid a mortgage as much as possible for something in the 150-180k range. That will nab me easily a 3-4br somewhere not a worst coast place.
>>2888863What lifestyle are you even trying to push? "Just rent forever"...that's the superior alternative?
>>2888866Chads don't pay the landlords money your parents have a room you grew up in just live there. Normies bend the knee to landlord and taxes
>>2888867Yeah dude just have a supportive familySpoiled bitch.
>>2888865A $150,000 home will require many thousands of dollars in repairs over the course of a few years of ownership. You'll also want to get a dog or two or three, because it's very lonely in the American countryside. Neighbors are kind, but they keep their distance and don't come wandering onto your property for a visit. Also be aware that living in the countryside will leave you completely dependent on a car. As in, you will need two cars so that way if one breaks down, you can use the other while you are fixing the first one.Dirt cheap life in America isn't really dirt cheap unless you're a rentcuck who scored a good deal within walking distance of a grocery store. Then you're set. Buying and owning anything has become a lot more expensive. Owning the shittiest shitbox for three years (sleeping in it for extended periods of time, and also driving it everywhere from Oaxaca to Maine) cost me about $500 per month over the period of ownership. American monthly expenses sub $1000 per month are disingenuous because they do not reflect the cost of major purchases like a car, an insurance plan for that car, a new phone or laptop, a plane ticket, or a car repair. Of course you can buy nothing, and let everything in your life fray into rags while trusting others to provide you a place to sleep. For years I couldn't abide the thought of not having my own place to sleep, even if it was a car. >>2888866Yes, but rent all over the world. >>2888867Most childhood homes in America have been sold for money by the family. That's all anyone who gets a house sees it as: an investment that you live in. BTW why do you need to live with your parents? You're a free adult, you can live as a rentoid with somebody else's parents instead. Airbnb has opportunities to get your foot in the door of a pleasant shared house if you want to do that kind of thing.
>>2888864Disgusting in winter. Damp and gray skies and polluted. Even in April, northern Taiwan was awful. Some of the worst weather of any place I've visited. The same bad conditions exist all the way down to Hanoi. You have to go to the protected side of the mountains (i.e. Southeast Asia and Vietnam below Da Nang) to get lovely winter weather. I'm talking 27 C and sunshine every day in winter. Not 10 C and raining for the tenth time this week.
>>2888734>I just expected more from all the hype Thailand seems to get from everyone I know and people You're several years late to the party
>>2888865>150-180k range. >That will nab me easily a 3-4brlol>>2888866Yeah. Would rather pay $200 in rent in the third world than be looking at $800+ in upkeep alone just to be tethered to a home
>>2888881It actually did for my brother. $150K for 20 acres and a three bedroom house in the piney woods countryside of east Texas. He bought it two years ago. >$200 in rentThat's not what they are charging for a place that meets your Western living specifications. >just to be tethered to a homeYeah, don't buy a home if you don't want to live in it lol. Makes no sense at all. One way to get a house would be to vulturemaxx...care for an elderly homeowner who doesn't want to go to a nursing home, and get the house bestowed to you. Vultures don't kill...they must trust you not to give them the pillow treatment. Imagine living in that atmosphere for years, smelling the rot of a decaying body, dealing with the daily diarrhea wiping, all in hopes of getting a place to live.
>>2888865>That will nab me easily a 3-4br somewhere not a worst coast place.Lol, it's 2026, not 2018, lmao
>>2888892Texas, gulf states, and in the midwest are full of these deals
>>2888881800/mo is my total budget anon:-rent-Mobile data-food-transportation around the city/country
>>2889020>$-- HOA>>2889024if you owned a house and lived in it, your budget would be about the same. house gives you an asset that might appreciate, but if you ever want to travel you'll be paying two expenses at once. (the car/insurance/hoa/property tax/maintenance on your house on top of normal $800 budget)dont know why people are so gung ho to baghold for boomers imo. stock market outpaces real estate historically, and with population declining globally i don't see that changing
>>2889033Yes anon generally Zillow will do -- for no HOA that was just one example to show houses in the 150-180k range exist.>if you owned a house and lived in it, your budget would be about the same. Yes anon I know, however I still need to do things like a down payment, insurance, etc. I am living overseas to help build and emergency fund + housing down payment where I want to do either full or 50% depending. I got my investments and retirement finally back on track and paid off all meaningful debt (I don't count my monthly paid off CC). I make about ~90k/yr and would like to sock away ~48k/yr minimum. Which is more or less doable as I split my paycheck into a chime account and brick style bank. 2k/mo to Chime and the rest in savings.
I found the greatest joy in life by buying a home and getting a wife. I can't believe you losers don't do this. Why are you even traveling?
>>2888742why yes I do have a better quality of life than you thanks for asking
>>2888716>thailand is great for healthy living>NOOO MY HECKIN BEERARINO IS EXPENSIVE>I CAN'T DRINKAlcohol is for retards and destroys your health. Sounds like Thailand is for healthy living.
>>2889020Lol, lmao even
>>2889065low T
>>2889080> In 2020, its racial and ethnic makeup was 23.4% non-Hispanic white, 63.9% Hispanic or Latin American of any race, 6.5% Black and African American, 3.2% Asian, and 2.3% multiracial or some other race.
>>2889074This is not true. A bottle of beer a day has benefits for digestion. Just don't combine it with durian, or drink while durian is in your system.>>2889024What percentage of that goes to rent? Low hotel budgets and refusal to use taxis will strictly limit the places you can go in a country like Thailand.
>>2889113>A bottle of beer a day has benefits for digestion.Addicts actually believe this.
>>2889113>rent>hoteltwo different economies
>>2889074You know you can drink on the weekends a bit without much consequence right? A Friday or Saturday going to the bar for some drinks after pregaming in your abnb isn't usually expensive, just have some beers to keep the buzz going. I'm not going clubbing retard. I was simply using Chang at a pub as a baseline, how is /trv/ this bad with examples.>>2889080Yes anon, it was an example to show anon it's possible to buy a house. Picrel is another one. I Don't get how /trv/ claims to work these great remote jobs or own companies or be successful investors, yet fail to understand examples. Anon was stating it's not possible to get a house in the current year for that price, I was posting an example of it being possible. >>2889113Airbnb 300-450/mo, so I have about 10 dollars a day for most everything. I give myself about 200 bucks "extra" to round out to 1000/mo but focus on trying to only hit 800/mo in spending. This was easy in Malaysia and Vietnam, maybe should have skipped to Chiang Mia but BKK had my gym work pays for(anytime). Just been running to TOPS for some premade chicken meals recently
>>2889173>The 75241 zip code in Dallas, Texas has a population of approximately 32,000 to 34,000 residents. The community is predominantly Black or African American (roughly 63-67%) and Hispanic or Latino (roughly 26-30%). It is a relatively young and family-oriented area with a median age of around 34-35 years.The specific demographic breakdown for the zip code reveals a mix of suburban and city living:>Racial Diversity: The population consists of Black (~63%), Hispanic (~30%), White (~4%), and Asian/Native American (~1%) residents.
>>2889187Anon, you can go look on Zillow for whatever the point being made in the post is that housing in that price range exist. You can go to city-data and then refine your search to whatever Rhode Island white tier libshit city possible. You fail to understand I am pointing out houses in bigger cities exist within the price range, yes you're going to need to fine tune it.150k is enough for a decent enough place in the Midwest, Houston, OKC, Wichita, Omaha, Colombus OH, Indianapolis, etc etc list goes on. I have no idea why /trv/ hyperfixates on the most stupid shit that completely misses the point of the post.
>>2889189The problem people are picking out is that you and others make this point and literally every single time a specific example is provided its in a black hood. Comparatively affordable housing DOES exist as you describe but its almost always 350k-500k. <300k is almost guaranteed ethnic hood
>>2889189You're a platformnigger so you overpay by triple in the case of aircucknb or you get tricked into moving to Gary,Indiana in the case of zillow. Blackrock doesn't even want those houses, and it's for a reason.
>>2889173That's a crime heatmap>>2889191And especially if you want to spend a lot of time overseas, you don't want to leave a house in a high crime neighborhood unattended.
>>2889191The first one was in San Antonio oh no mexicans in the south! EEEK, this board will gawk over South America and SEA but Mexicans YIIIKKES! LMAO. I'll take a republican black or Hispanic any day over a liberal hell hole. Again, these houses are just to show they exist anon not that I am going to buy that exact one. Are people actually so retarded on this board they think house click and buy solely on a webpage? Anon, when I get back to the states I am obviously going to live in a few cities to know the area first. Are you actually retarded.>specific example is provided its in a black hoodLook at the place on google maps and tell me that's a hood lmao, because both posted clearly aren't. Have picrel >inb4 "yuck Omaha boring yawn">>2889192Anon it's called communicating on the internet, it's the best way to show housing is via a platform accessible for all.>>2889193>That's a crime heatmapYes most big cities have larger crime rates it's why you shop around.>And especially if you want to spend a lot of time overseas, you don't want to leave a house in a high crime neighborhood unattended.Hey retard, that's why I am living abroad to save up then go buy a house and not travel as much. Why do you think I am living overseas for X years on a strict budget to save?These convos reminds me of the retarded ass shit my friends bitched about after they finished college and couldn't figure out finding their own place. Needs to have weather like LA, White as Maine, walkability to places like Tokyo, jobs that pay Silicon Valley, and living cheap as Vietnam.
>>2889198Re: it being the hood Im assuming the info other anon posted is valid>Racial Diversity: The population consists of Black (~63%)This is obviously unlivable even if it doesn't literally look like a Baltimore ghetto. You're being disingenuous
>>2889200Okay then go find a house that you like then anon, holy shit talk about missing the point this hard. Again you can go look for houses yourself, the entire point of the post was that anon was stating you can find houses for 150-180k, again picrel. I looked that one up for you ~50% white, 30% hispanic, 7% black.>This is obviously unlivable even if it doesn't literally look like a Baltimore ghetto.Go look at the neighborhood on google streets, all the grass is cut, fences well maintained, cars aren't niggermobiles, basic working class neighborhood. Looks more livable than the "white" cities of the west coast or NE where riots break out every time a brown person cries or trump does something. I grew up in the south, a black or hispanic republican >>>>> white libtard.>You're being disingenuousNah you are by simply looking at one house and assuming that is the only thing I am buying. I clearly stated in 3 years I intend to buy, do you seriously think that the house I posted will even be there in 3 years? Hell no. You need to be 18 to post here
>>2889201but you can retire now. you can pay $50 a month in rent to live next to based black men in Nairobi. You don't need 6 million shekels to do that
>>2889202>Kenya is the same as having black neighbors in a city in TexasWow so true anon very cool.
>>2889201Retard alert
>>2889207Kek literally every single time. Somehow these guys don't understand they're the millionth person to do this dumb bit.
>>2889206Nairobi is better. More walkable, hotter slimmer chicks
>>2889207>>2889208Crime heatmaps are notoriously shit, anyone who's done apartment shopping or moved for work realizes these are built for Facebook mom's and Karen's. The place I lived back home was safe as could be, but crimegrade would rate it F because a few bars near the corner of the map they made had some bar fights, DUI, property theft/dine n dash, etc. These basically suck because the metrics are all web crawled BS with not validation or follow up, just reports.Especially since you have overall crime selected, go look at the Dakota's or Wyoming. Random nothing burger Farm counties have D and F tier for absurd reasons.
>>2889211>they made had some bar fights, DUI, property theft/dine n dash, etc.Qui?
>>2889211Dude it's Dallas so you won't get that distortion and second the price of the house is the tell that it's a bad hood! It's simply the only reason any property in/near a major urban center can be so lacking a bid in 2026
>>2889213Crimemaps operate over whatever reports are available on the web. Picrel, your international airports will be worse than the hoods of the USA because nothingburgers happen but the citations and filings happening at airports are classified more serious.There are a lot of things that can fuck it up, AZ use to have a 0 tolerance .00 driving requirement where other states had .08 so the metric was fucked>>2889214dude your website is shit, again go hover over any major airport it will be blood red as one of the worst places to be. Oh wait it isn't.The Crime Maps also don't take into affect what quantifies as a violation. In DFW stealing something over 100 dollars might land you in Jail. LA? Uhhh citation maybe if the cops show up to Tyrone stealing a PS5. There is no consistent standard as to what's actually at play because how state and local laws vary as to what qualifies as what. If you're buying a house go live in the area for a bit, check out how things are at the church, talk to some locals at the bar, drive around take a few weeks to live there, etc.
Oh man bloods and crips got nothing on those farmers in Nebraska. Farmers straight out of Compton growing corn for a living.
>>2889213Bars, and moreso colleges, absolutely destroy these types of sites because the crime might happen within a city or two block but the whole zipcode and surrounding gets affected. The lack of enforcement some democrat states do also make these meaningless. Walking around in a see through thong covered in dildos might get your ass beat in TX and charged with some crimes, whereas LA you get people clapping hoping to be vindicated. Same with weed, some states might tell you to put it out if they see you doing it where some will throw the book at you and show no mercy if you are doing it in a car where you are "transporting illegal substances".
>>2889216>>2889217Again,1) the map in question is in the middle of Dallas, TX - NOT an airport and NOT buttfuck nowhere, so your handwaving obviously holds less weight2) the price tag of the house alone in/near a major metro area tells me what the crime maps page is going to look like before I read it, and allows me to conclude that the red coded map is more signal than noise compared to how it might be in [random place, NE]
>>2889220How are you this dense?The metrics the site use are fucked, meaning the data is fucked, meaning it can't be trusted as anything viable. Again, the map is meaningless because some states simply don't enforce the law where crime happens. The site also doesn't state how far back it's records go or when they pruge data, it even admits it's a guess> the price tag of the house alone in/near a major metro area tells me what the crime maps page is going to look like before I read it,This is like the debt fag who thinks a 10-12k used car to get to and form their job is le bad because "well the price..." so they go buy new 50k car to only wonder why they are poor. The house was built in 1962, it probably needs a bit of TLC but nothing breaking. Not everything is coastfag pricingIf a airline ticket is cheap does that mean it will be shit and the plane will crash because "took one look at the price! I just know!".>allows me to conclude that the red coded map is more signal than noise compared to how it might be in [random place, NE]So you're confirming it's inconsistent, great>All maps and statistics above are projections, not certainties, and provided without guarantee free of charge. Verify all info before making any decisions based on the data.These sites are literally made for Karens and Soccer moms to fret over.
>>2889221You must be trollingNo one is making the argument that low price = bad across all objects that have a price. It is however a totally reasonable heuristic in 2026 to say, houses <200k in major metro areas with no obvious, visible defects are almost certainly in bad neighborhoods. >Used car analogyNon sequitur >Airplane analogyGenuinely retarded non sequitur>So you're confirming it's inconsistentAll data points must be considered independently then synthesized in greater context to determine what's valuable for decision making and what's noise. It is possible for a source to be sometimes noisy, sometimes useful, yes.
>>2889222>All data points must be considered independently then synthesized in greater context to determine what's valuable for decision making and what's noise. It is possible for a source to be sometimes noisy, sometimes useful, yes.The site literally states it's just guessing and projecting what crime is occurring retard. Scroll down and read your "source".
>>2889217Yeah, probably a lot of meth, thefts on meth, and DUIs. Rural America has a shit qol, as a rule of thumb.
