hey there! living abroad is a very attainable goal and comfortable lifestyle.
tldr is get a passport, get any remote job for 10-15 hours a week, move to one of the $500 countries, rest, recuperate, live.
Take it from there without financial pressure weighing you down; build up passive income, get access to better healthcare, great food, world wonders and innumerable other benefits.
If you are an English speaker, you have immediate access to thousands of teaching jobs that pay anywhere from $2000-10000 USD per month.
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That sounds great! We wanted to do the Beijing to Ulaanbataar railway this year but couldn’t fit it in (maybe next year!). Portland is also a lovely place, we had friends in Vancouver WA across the border we stayed with for a couple weeks.
Botswana is also high on our list but we were tossing up between south America or southern Africa and Americas has won for now. Scotland is amazing and I’m sure you’d have a blast. Canada we’ve only done BC and Alberta and would love to see the rest (maybe when the USA is less hostile to foreigners we’ll spend more time in North America).
The monkeys were very chill, but also quite shy, when we spotted a group, they’d spot us too and slowly retreat away from view.
nice, I’ve considered mongolia-beijing trains often. you know about the 20+ hour wheel change between china/mongolia? about half of the 40-hour ride is waiting fro those wheels to be changed, so I always talk myself out of it before buying a ticket. probably why it took me so long to get to mongolia since the train seems like the coolest transport method but I never wanted to wait for the wheels. which is funny, because I regularly took 24hr beijing-hong kong trains while living in china without blinking an eye.
It’s as bizarre as ever being back in the states, but so many friends moved back to the area at the same time it’s been fun hanging out with them, although it’s about time for me to be looking at tickets. the whole tense-desperation thing here is seeping into my everyday.