I’ve got $10,000 and need to disappear.
I haven’t broken any laws or done anything wrong, I just want a new life. I’m in USA, what country should I go to? I need a place that isn’t going to care that I just get up and move.
I’ve got $10,000 and need to disappear
10k is nothing
I'd say invest most of it and just stay where you are.
vanuatu. they speak mostly english there and climate is relatively tropical.
Tahiti
Possibly worth noting they have some of the highest hurricane vulnerability in the world
Am I likely going to run into any trouble for being there off the grid?
Why?
Just run off to Mumbai. Probably the best place to disappear to.
Think more south east asia
Buy a van
Apply for a seasonal job on a fishing boat in Alaska
Spend all summer working your ass off, making fat stacks of cash
Finish the season with enough money to live off for the next 8 months of the year.
Drive down south and sit on a beach in Baja California or Florida for the rest of the year.
When April comes start driving back up to Alaska again
Repeat
I'd be interested in that but I don't want to do it in the US. How about south east asia?
north korea
Alaska is a fucking shit hole. Have you been?
Give canada the fucking panhandle back you fucks
Siem Reap, Cambodia. Cheap as fuck.
Thailand, without a doubt
Fuck Canada you pussy! You can have Nickelback back!
To become a mango farmer
Go to Venezuela. American money goes a long way there currently.
K E K
eh, depends. SEA is a shithole and the only white/foreign people living there are Aussie miners who are on $120/h and get flown in/out of their job site free of charge.
SEA not as cheap as you'd think, considering it's all a big tourist trap now.
China's shit.
Japan's good but they're heading towards economic collapse in the next 5-ish years, plus you cant do anything there as a foreigner really except teach English (and English teaching there has been slowly going downhill because they'd rather hire Filipinos for cheap than quality workers, so that whole industry is gunna shit itself again soon)
Korea's like a budget Japan, but they hate Americans.
vietnam. come here and teach english
But I have no degree, is it still possible?
Come to the uk.
You can stay with me until you get on your feet.
I'm really lonely.
not him, i dont know about vietnam but generally you need a degree to immigrate to other countries.
And because you're from the US you can't get Working Holiday visas anywhere either.
Unless you get lucky and say, get an office job that's willing to sponsor you for a work permit or you have a relative in another country that you can get a visa from then you're pretty much limited to the US my dude.
It's possible, but you'll be making jack shit as far as money. You will live like a poor person on those wages. Not exactly the best life lol but hey...it's possible to settle down there. But seriously dude, you run the risk of overstaying your visa no matter where you go. Eventually they will kick you out. I lived in Europe for 3 years illegally and it was hard to survive. But over in Asia, you'll stick out like a sore thumb and it just takes 1 cop to get ya. So be prepared to get scammed a lot, and be prepared to blow through that 10k faster than you dreamed. Cause eventually, you will run out of money, and then life is going to be complete SHITE.
Not saying this to be a dick. I was once in your same position, except I was actually running from the law. That was 10 years ago, i'm glad im not doing that shit anymore.
if ur serious, how could i contact u
I don't care about being poor. I'm just going to answer the call to adventure.
Vietnam is one of the few SEA countries that don't bother with degrees. If you work in Thailand, then yes, you'll need a degree.
Back in the day I bought a fake degree online, came with transcripts and everything. I used it to teach English in Bogota,Colombia. I made $2500 a month doing that lol I was living like a king. But if you don't have a degree, your options are limited to Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and other poor as fuck Asian countries. And you sure as hell won't make 2.5k with no degree...or even with one tbh but with a degree you will make a lot more.
I hear ya, brotha. I answered the same call when I was 19. I traveled for 6 years all over the world and I don't regret it one bit. It was very, very hard at times, but I miss it. Now that i'm 32 I just don't have the energy to be doing that drifter shit anymore lol
That was a test.
You failed.
You won't survive a fucking day out in the real world.
I suggest you rethink your strategy.
What countries?
Honduras, just go to las islas de la bahia, 10,000k its a lot and its mostly English there
don't do it Yea Forumsro. that guy will have you diced up and in the deep freeze by 6 bong. you should just dip out to Baja Mexico. 2 of my buddies and I went there and ended up staying for nearly the whole summer when we were 19. I'm 28 now and should have never left that paradise. go there. just don't be sketchy and you should be good
if you only got 10.000 dollars you need to go somewhere cheap like mexico cause that aint a whole lot of money
Just about every country in Europe. Lived in Alkmaar,NL for 1 year. Also lived in Clearbrook, which is a small village outside of Plymouth in the UK. I had an English gf at the time. She was hot...but yeah I also lived in Australia, Colombia, and I hitchhiked from California to NYC in a week...that was ballsy of me lol but at the time I just fucking did it.
I also joined the French foreign legion lol I lasted 1 fucking week before they kicked me out at Fort de Nogent in Paris.
I also briefly visited Thailand and Japan.
Europe was my favorite continent. I was living and working all over from 2006-2010. But man oh man, there were a SHIT LOAD of immigrants in Europe back in those days, I can't even imagine how bad it is now. Those brown fuckers ruined that whole continent for me.
why do you say that? ppl on Yea Forums aren't scary
this.
OP with only $10k that's not even gunna last you a year of backpacking, living in hostels or whatever without working. short of going to some really shithole countries.
the fact you even considered for a second going to some fucking Yea Forums user's place shows you're kind of naiive and dont have the street smarts for shithole countries.
go backpacking in Canada for a year, learn from that experience or do like that other user said and go to Alaska or Vietnam if you want to try working somewhere different.
My advice, make a thread on /trv/.
It's a slow board, but make a thread, check on it every day, make a post or two and after a couple of weeks you'll have some actual solid advice.
Fucking Jews man
Yes it will.
What you do is pay $40 for a membership to WWOOF (willing workers on organic farms)
for 3 hours of work a day, you get 3 meals and a place to sleep.
I've WWOOF'd at some pretty cool places. Some even pay money for more work, which is a god send when you're a traveler.
Some WWOOF places weren't even farms. PK's jungle village in Australia just had me wash dishes once a night and I got to stay there for 2 months in the fucking rain forest doing LSD and chilling on the beach everyday. It was cool/
ah forgot about WWOOFing.
i've had a couple of friends that did it.
One friend got lucky and got a really sweet deal.
Another friend got basically used for slave labor and had to sleep in a tent in the farmer's yard, didn't get food and the farmer refused to drive him into town or anything, so the dude had to hitchhike or walk 10 miles into town to buy shit.
Good advice though. OP read that guy's suggestion. It's a good way to cut down costs when traveling.
Also, volunteering at hostels will get you a free stay for like 3 days a week (4h a day) of just folding towels or sweeping.
Kek
Wow. That does sound shitty. Yeah, I've heard from other travelers about some horror stories just like that. Fortunately, I was quite lucky with the places I stayed at. The coolest was a completely furnished and abandoned hotel in Apeldoorn,NL. It was built for the prime minister and they just fucking abandoned it. I'm talking gourmet kitchen, over 100 rooms, and it was populated by 20 or so hippies..mostly Dutch hippies lol but yeah, it was really surreal.
But these days, you can do quite a bit of research and read reviews online to avoid those really bad places, cause yeah, they do exist!
Join the French foreign legion
Iceland or Ireland brah
if you're white, Brazil. you won't stick out bad, you'll get a decent job based on the fact that you're white and speak English, Brazilian women are hot, and 10k can stretch.
Does it matter that I don't have a degree?
Move 45 minutes away and ghost everyone idk dude stop being a faggot and thinking you have to flee the country
does it matter that the jews did 9/11?