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The further from a city center I am, the better the food gets. Even the hotpot buffets have a better hotpot base, meat and sides selection.

And boy if you live in Indonesia first, you're in for an inexpensive intro to traveling.

Hey there Lemstituents, I’ve been traveling for about 15 years.

You can access quality housing, food security, health care, education, transportation and other basic civil amenities abroad that may be otherwise unaffordable or inaccessible to you.

If you have a remote job that pays over $500 USD a month, there are over a hundred countries you can be living in. If you make over $1000 USD a month remotely, the world is wide open.

If you don’t have a remote job yet, teaching English on or offline pays $1600-10,000 a month.

You can use the extra time and money to figure out how to get closer to your dream job, dream country or chill out and watch movies or play video games all day.

Stay out of the US 11 out of 12 months(calendar year, not tax year) and you don’t pay federal income tax on your first ~$126,500 USD that year.

Ask questions here and feel free to post in the community.

Oh that's a monitor lizard in Lumpini Park in Bangkok, there's a bunch there that are super chill and walk around the park. Go check 'em out.

sate padang daging.

$1.50

Love discovering new bites everywhere

Condo incl. utilties and Wifi - $230/month

rice cake+6 beef skewers+stew - $1

Savory layered 12-pc crepe - $1.50

soft drink - $0.20

40 minute rideshare - $2.60

custom eyeglasses(lenses and frames) + vision test - $10

stir-fry/fried rice/fried noodles - $0.75

visa on arrival - $30

AYCE buffet - $9

motor scooter rental - $3 per day

1 month 5g sim card w/ 20GB data -$6

If you have any price requests, ask below and I'll answer or find out while I'm here.

Crispy fried omelette. It's savory and salty with vegetables and beef and egg fried crispy on the outside, it's verrrry goood.

I asked a couple guys what martabak was, and one of them said just wait, threw some money on the counter and asked the other guy to make me one.

I tried to pay him several times but he wouldn't hear of it, and we ended up having a really interesting conversation; he shared a bunch of the local mythology with me, and then we shared the savory martabak, with apparently I couldn't put off eating long enough to get a better picture of.

It was a very solid meal that I am finishing off now while I wait for the heaviest of the current monsoon to ease.

Love me some thunder!

Pronounced Jog ja, with js

I didn't see the skate park outside, so I imagined it inside like the teenage mutant Ninja turtles movie.

For some reason, asian countries only make sweet jerky, even if it's labeled salty, except i think mongolia. Yak jerky is the best.

Anyway, mongolia and their yak jerky, my favorite jerky, shortlisted.

Any Indonesians know what the 5-3 is?

Some of the best breading and frying I've ever had, but I think the shell was left on? And the head, so that was a little surprising.

Couldn't really notice under all the flavor in the crunch though.

Similar flight duration, opposite customer care policies.

The sapporo is blocking the soba noodle dish, which was rrrreal good with the provided soba noodle sauce.

Spirit made all passengers empty their water bottles before getting on the plane and if you wanted water during the 7 hour flight you were required to purchase it from them.

First airline I've ever used that prohibited water. Big thumbs down. Seems insane, tbh.

A common visa stumbling block either occurs in your savings or monthly income.

I recommend the Colombian digital nomad visa for several reasons:

1. only a $900 monthly income requirement for a 2-year visa. Ten hours a week teaching English online will net you more than this.

2. Perfect weather. Mountain towns in Colombia have 69-71 F(20-21 C) weather 365 days a year.

3. World-class healthcare. Colombia is always near the top of the list for medical tourism. top care, low prices.

4 through more: Beautiful landscape, nice people, safe neighborhoods, great food, modern cities, great art

Requirements:

1. Proof of remote work for 6 months

2. 900 bucks a month

3. health insurance($300 annually)

4. passport

5. passport photo

Let me know if you have any questions.

Check out the last post for info about the visa itself, but it looks like Colombia coincidentally updated their application site right after my post about it.

Wow, it looks like they actually created an instructional PDF and are providing screenshots field by field for how to fill out the entire visa form. The PDF is in Spanish, which you can auto-translate or follow along with the screenshots of every single step in the process.

It's a long pdf because the instructions are step-by-step, include screenshots and include individual, group, and different visa options, although the basic process is still go to the application site, fill out the forms, then pay for the visa.

It is loud.

Narita.

I didn't see anyone get a seizure the entire 30 seconds it took me to walk past it, but I can't speak to what happened before or after.

Asia loves their all you can eat buffets, and I don't mind them myself!

I forgot to take a photo of the roughly 40 empry meat dishes stacked up on the table by the end of my meal, so I guess I'll just have to go back.

The buffet meat is usually better in other countries, but there are two branches of this particular buffet, so I'll compare the two for science.

The other problem was that this was about 9$, which is a good enough price for a celebration but pretty expensive for Indonesia in particular, which is an incredibly inexpensive place to eat. An entire dish of handmade spiced fried noodles or stir fry is only $1 each.

Low living costs here have generally surprised me, even after so mamy years travelling.

I had to take a path through the trees back to the road.

Monk seals shuffle up onto hawaiian beaches to nap. This one was already on the sand, but I did get to see one come out of the water an hour later.

This guy got swooped toward me by the current, then noticed me and decided to take his leave.

While I lived there, I knew international students from everywhere all across China. I've met international students in every country I've been in so far.

Students get the same accreditation and education for about 10% of the cost. Different degrees have different tuitions, but in general you will be paying tens of thousands USD less per year for the same quality degree you'd get in Western EU or the US.

There are international(English-speaking) universities in every country. The lower their cost of living, the lower your tuition is going to be.

How:

Enroll. Pay tuition. Get your student visa. Buy your plane ticket and housing.

Feel free to ask about specifics.

These spiky guys are swift!

Difficult to photograph, so Im happy with this picture.

They look like they're just floating around not doing anything moat of the time, but as soon as I get near they are outta there

I've known many families living abroad long-term very comfortably.

How:

International schools are available in most countries, you can choose the one in the neighborhood you want and get your kids a quality education.

Affordable, high-quality healthcare is available in many countries and you can choose where you want to live.

Food is healthy fresh, delicious, and affordable, with much less industrial processing common in higher-income countries.

Transportation is available in most countries. If you want a private vehicle, all you need is an IDL, which is a simple process to acquire online with your regular driver's license. Then you can legally drive in most countries with your home country's driver's license.

For those in higher income countries, relocation costs are insignificant compared to the enormous amount of savings every month due to lower costs of living in many countries.

If you have any questions about traveling as a family, ask away!

Half the ones i see are hanging out down there.

Technically a school, but why should crows have all the fun?