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Post by that1guy on Jan 24, 2018 18:56:44 GMT -5
I love traveling, it's one of the things I miss most about the military. (aside from playing with fire arms & explosives, the free gym memberships, shooting the breeze in the armory, women swooning over my uniform, ect, ect.) One of the great things about traveling is my U.S. dollar goes so far in some of these places. A working class loser like me can live like Trump in some corners of the world for a very, very long time on one paycheck. Now recently I've been looking to check out Colombia south america and it's got absolutely NOTHING to do with the beautiful women, okay I lied BUT! I was looking at a currency exchange and almost felt bad laughing my way to the bank. almost. I felt like some spoiled elitist laughing, "really? how much?!?" Gringo tax aside from my research I'm pretty sure I could live like a king for a month off of 1 decent pay check. Any body else catch my vibe?
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Post by cheminhaler on Jan 24, 2018 19:51:55 GMT -5
I know someone who lived in Guatemala, teaching English for 10 years.
There's good points like living cheaply but there are very bad things, like he got robbed at gun point twice. Once was just after a Western Union money transfer, so you'd have to be very careful/ paranoid or go somewhere with security but those are probably just unaffordable.
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Post by that1guy on Jan 24, 2018 22:56:33 GMT -5
the gypsies of Europe got me pretty bad a couple of times. Best pick pockets in the world are in Paris.
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Post by Major Downer on Jan 25, 2018 8:24:20 GMT -5
My Travels on my motor cycle took me to places like Poland which was good currency exchange and Russia also, I survived on £500 for the full 3 and Half weeks, including fuel and small B&B's, only used my tent on the first night.
Russians are nice people and welcoming, even if you don't speak the language. They do ask a lot if you're from America, Luckily for me they only Understand London, so I just say that and they smile and want pictures with you, even the Police pulled us over just to say Hello.
South America can be Dangerous, so you have to keep your witts and not put yourself in set situations, they do like to take stuff from you thats not actually for them.
Do you have plans for only South America?
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Jan 25, 2018 10:56:40 GMT -5
We also get a lot of mileage out of it at home, too, although it may not always be apparent. The cost of a meal or groceries is relatively low for larger portions than you'd see in most other places, and the price of gas where I fill up is half the cost of what it is in London right now (and I live in an area that's relatively expensive by American standards). We're pretty lucky in regards to how far the dollar can go at home and abroad.
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Post by cheminhaler on Jan 25, 2018 12:57:55 GMT -5
Petrol is just one factor. Then there's Road Tax, MOT, insurance, parking fees for outside your house, parking for anywhere else, Congestion charge (and the Zone is going to cover all of London soon), Diesel tax and Autoglass charge a fortune if someone bricks your windscreen - insurance means nothing unless its fully comp.
Groceries are going up all the time thanks to the exchange rate. We're at 1:1 with the Euro now. Good news for big exporters like Games Workshop, bad news for anyone else.
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Post by Major Downer on Jan 26, 2018 8:00:30 GMT -5
We never talk about Expensive countries to go to.
The one's I know of:
Iceland Norway Denmark Singapore
I was thinking about Hong Kong and Finland but I'm not sure.
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Post by that1guy on Jan 26, 2018 19:58:45 GMT -5
My Travels on my motor cycle took me to places like Poland which was good currency exchange and Russia also, I survived on £500 for the full 3 and Half weeks, including fuel and small B&B's, only used my tent on the first night. Russians are nice people and welcoming, even if you don't speak the language. They do ask a lot if you're from America, Luckily for me they only Understand London, so I just say that and they smile and want pictures with you, even the Police pulled us over just to say Hello. South America can be Dangerous, so you have to keep your witts and not put yourself in set situations, they do like to take stuff from you thats not actually for them. Do you have plans for only South America? Pretty much have my heart set on South America just because it's the one continent in the world I have spent the least amount of time in. (aside from antartica) ...autstralia too but, to be honest with you when I go to countries where they never have seen people with blue eyes the women go banana's. (fyi I pride myself on my beautiful blue eyes) the girls of Tokyo were fighting over me! (love Tokyo btw you all should go & bring your warhammer toys too! ) yeah, Tokyo is like the center of the universe man. Weird, but indescribably fascinating. Expensive! expensive as any major city, (i.e. Paris, NYC are both about as expensive as Tokyo) But to put it into perspective, you know when you see a Japanese girl or a latina chica in the land of your ancestors and she just seems such an exotic beauty? Well in their home you are the exotic beauty! In their home the women compete for the attention of my baby blue eyes like American men compete over a Japanese girl or a latina chica.
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Post by RedCuffs on Jan 27, 2018 3:33:30 GMT -5
I’ve been to the Falkland Islands. It’s the only part of the South American continent I’ve visited. I spent a total of two years down there in five separate tours on an Anti Aircraft unit between 1983 and 1994 During my first four month tour I didn’t see one single woman. There were plenty female sheep (no they didn’t start looking attractive by month four before that filthy, sordid thought emerges into a dark corners of anyone’s perverted mind). So don’t go there if you want your big, beautiful blue eyes to be noticed by anyone other than some old horny ram.
Do go there if you like penguins, seals, shipwrecks, historical battlefield tours and mutton curry, mutton chilli, mutton and mash, mutton stroganoff, mutton omelette, pickled mutton, mutton trifle, mutton flavour ice cream ... I could go on.
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Post by cheminhaler on Jan 27, 2018 6:59:20 GMT -5
Ewe have got to be kidding!
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Post by RedCuffs on Jan 27, 2018 12:07:53 GMT -5
Ewe have got to be kidding! Ewe bet your Ass I’m not !!!
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Jan 28, 2018 9:53:49 GMT -5
Tokyo is great, but literally everywhere else in Japan is where it's at for seeing great sights.
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Post by that1guy on Jan 28, 2018 12:58:39 GMT -5
I’ve been to the Falkland Islands. It’s the only part of the South American continent I’ve visited. I spent a total of two years down there in five separate tours on an Anti Aircraft unit between 1983 and 1994 During my first four month tour I didn’t see one single woman. There were plenty female sheep (no they didn’t start looking attractive by month four before that filthy, sordid thought emerges into a dark corners of anyone’s perverted mind). So don’t go there if you want your big, beautiful blue eyes to be noticed by anyone other than some old horny ram. Do go there if you like penguins, seals, shipwrecks, historical battlefield tours and mutton curry, mutton chilli, mutton and mash, mutton stroganoff, mutton omelette, pickled mutton, mutton trifle, mutton flavour ice cream ... I could go on. okay, good to know! Note to self; Avoid the Falkland Islands.
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Post by that1guy on Jan 28, 2018 13:01:49 GMT -5
Tokyo is great, but literally everywhere else in Japan is where it's at for seeing great sights. Everywhere else in Japan (except Okinawa) is where it's at.... DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT go to that dirty, miserable, filthy, degenerate Island Okinawa. Technically it is part of Japan, like on paper, but trust me it is NOT japan. The people there are bitter, miserable (possibly for good reason) but they are not actually Japanese by any sense that Japan prides its self in. They don't even speak the same language.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Jan 28, 2018 20:30:47 GMT -5
They do speak the same language. But Okinawa was the Ryukyu Kingdom back in the day, and just has a history of trying not to be steamrolled by everyone and kinda failing.
It's a nice place, and the people were nice. You just need to not find the bitter people, same as anywhere else you go.
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Post by that1guy on Jan 30, 2018 18:01:00 GMT -5
They do speak the same language. But Okinawa was the Ryukyu Kingdom back in the day, and just has a history of trying not to be steamrolled by everyone and kinda failing. It's a nice place, and the people were nice. You just need to not find the bitter people, same as anywhere else you go. IDK, I was sitting between my Japaneses translator and an Okinawan Native and they could not communicate between each other, between me.... maybe he just did not want to. Yeah, they have a historical culture of being bullied, we American's haven't done a great job of breaking that vicious cycle. I blame politically correct bureaucrats for stationing 1/3 of the USMC there and then taking away their beer. Any time you try to take beer from Marines it gets ugly.
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Post by RedCuffs on Jan 30, 2018 19:13:12 GMT -5
They took away your Beer No excuse for that mate. What about your Human Rghts I spent 13 years on live armed ops and there was only one op when i couldn’t get any beer if I wanted it. Op Helvin, and that was only because it was over so quickly I didn’t have time to find a few corruptible locals. I feel for you bro ... In Brit Mil there’s the “2 Can Rule”. Now most think it is translated as only consuming up to 2 cans of beer and no more in any 24 hour period. Personally I interpret it differently. If you can stand on your own two feet unaided and explain to the MP in front of you that “I’ve only had 2 cans” ... then you’re ok and can be allowed to carry on your way.
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Post by cheminhaler on Jan 31, 2018 12:45:16 GMT -5
Humans have no Rghts! Rghts are an Eldar thing
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