Anyone thought about moving to a different country?

Julius Skrrvin

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whats wrong with canada? beautiful environment, relatively peaceful, nice solid south asian population(for me), good healthcare and education, and none of the shyttyness of the United States government- but you're basically living in the US anyway. I don't wanna move somewhere exotic, although I may eventually join my family in the south pacific :manny:
 

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I've only ever really thought about Vancouver or something like that.





Do you speak Portuguese? How was life there?

My Portuguese is decent now, back then it was crude but people could understand me and most of the Brazilians I knew would teach me if I helped them with English.


It was the best time of my life, posted this before -

The first time I traveled by myself was to South Africa, probably the most liberating experience I've ever had in my life, you never feel more at one with yourself when you're in another country by yourself. I had gone places with friends prior to that, but that was the first time I was out on my own, no waiting on anyone else to get ready, no planning schedules. You develop a level of confidence I can't really even explain, it's like you're born again as this smiley :myman:

As for Brazil, I lived in Salvador for 5 months, I had been to Brazil a few times before that, stayed in Salvador for about 2 weeks before and fell in love with the atmosphere, pacing and how beautiful the city itself was. I had sold my car a few months early and had some decent money, started to get tired of the rat race and people in the US overall and decided to go back to a place I absolutely loved. I stayed in a hostel for about a week and a half before I found a decent/cheap apartment, after that my day would usually be -

Wakeup - get some breakfast,
go to the beach - go to the gym (in a hotel)
come back to the spot and relax - email/surf net,
go back out and chill at a bar/restaurant/lounge.

I met a girl maybe 1 month after I got there that had just graduated from some university in Juazeiro, really pretty, really sweet and just extremely pleasant to be around. Her english was pretty good, and she'd help me with my Portuguese. She'd invite me to all these family get togethers, everyone treated me like they knew me. I wasn't down there for sex, and I wasn't down there for a girlfriend, I went down there to clear my mind and experience a new culture for a long period of time. It just worked out that I met someone worthwhile, which made leaving difficult.

Oh, and funny thing, because of our music she assumed NYC was like a warzone, 50 was big at the time. She couldn't believe me when I told her that most of the big cities in Brazil were far more dangerous.
 

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Malta said:
Wakeup - get some breakfast,
go to the beach - go to the gym (in a hotel)
come back to the spot and relax - email/surf net,
go back out and chill at a bar/restaurant/lounge.

That's the life, :to:

F*ck "working hard"
 

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That's the life, :to:

F*ck "working hard"

:sadcam: For any young dude that even has the option to leave for a bit, I say do it and do not look back. As men our shelf life is insanely long.

:leon:

You need to retire there breh. Did you smash that female?:shaq: Did you try and get her to come back with you?

Retiring there or Colombia is actually in my plans, and smash? I was her first and she lived with me for a few months :eat:

She didn't want to leave her family, so while I wanted her to come back it wasn't going to happen. We tried to stay in touch but eventually just drifted a part, a long distance relationship of 5000 miles isn't going to work.
 

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Growing up I didn't travel much, except for Ghana. Wifey has got me out to all types of places. Well not really, so far just Mexico, the Caribbean and Western Europe.

When we were in Europe for our honeymoon we seriously considered moving out there. I get a bad case of vacationitis wherever I go, but Paris hit me the hardest. Black/white racial tension seemed nonexistant, architecture was beautiful, food was incredible, culture was very moto friendly... I just couldn't find any flaws with the place, at least on the surface. But neither me nor my wife speak French and the job market out there is abysmal. IDK. I might make learning French my skill this year just in case they turn shyt around one day. I love love love Paris.

Looking to go either to South America (Chile) or Asia (Hokkaido + Maldives) this year. Also gotta do a trip back to Ghana and use up our free days at the wedding resort in Mexico. And leave NYC. And save $$$ :damn:

If theres one thing I can recommend everyone do, whenever the opportunity arises, travel. See how different people act towards each other and get out of your comfort zone. And do it while you're young god damn it!!!!
 

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Growing up I didn't travel much, except for Ghana. Wifey has got me out to all types of places. Well not really, so far just Mexico, the Caribbean and Western Europe.

When we were in Europe for our honeymoon we seriously considered moving out there. I get a bad case of vacationitis wherever I go, but Paris hit me the hardest. Black/white racial tension seemed nonexistant, architecture was beautiful, food was incredible, culture was very moto friendly... I just couldn't find any flaws with the place, at least on the surface. But neither me nor my wife speak French and the job market out there is abysmal. IDK. I might make learning French my skill this year just in case they turn shyt around one day. I love love love Paris.

Looking to go either to South America (Chile) or Asia (Hokkaido + Maldives) this year. Also gotta do a trip back to Ghana and use up our free days at the wedding resort in Mexico. And leave NYC. And save $$$ :damn:

If theres one thing I can recommend everyone do, whenever the opportunity arises, travel. See how different people act towards each other and get out of your comfort zone. And do it while you're young god damn it!!!!

 
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You are not built for that life in Brazil.I mean that in the friendliest way I can.

That shyt isn't for you. Don't be fooled.

I've seen your objections towards gun crimes and trust me, you don't want to be staring down the barrel of gun being held by a poor 11 years old from the favela.

What, some people SUPPORT gun crimes?

Nah J/k, I get your point. I don't expect the place some safe haven or whatever. But I also have people who've been/lived there and haven't seen none of that. I'm not saying I'm talking of moving there permanently either, maybe go for 6 months/one year and see what's good.
 

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I've been thinking about it a lot actually. I was born in Tanzania but my family has lived in Uganda, Djibouti, Yemen, Aden, and Saudi Arabia before moving stateside permanently. I've also visited Amsterdam, South Africa, London, Canada, and the Bahamas. I would say without a doubt that I will leave this country In the next five years.

My plan is to make as much money as possible then move back to my home country to help build it up. The problem is a lot of folks leave Tanzania for higher education or what not, but they never wanna come back and help the nation out. Plus TZ is at the ground floor in a lot of industries so there's plenty of opportunities available. So the short answer is yes.
 

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Yes...I plan on leaving this country for good in the next five years...hopefully all goes well and it happens...There's a lot of places I want to check out, but as for a final destination, not sure yet....Perhaps Japan, or Switzerland....or the Netherlands....who knows.....
 

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I'd like to retire outside of the USA. I might be too lazy to learn a new language though, and most English speaking options are :ld:


English speakers are in demand all around the world, you could literally get a job teaching English in China tomorrow if you wanted. Learning the language in other countries is fun to be honest, most women in other countries love to teach us foreigners their language.
 

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English speakers are in demand all around the world, you could literally get a job teaching English in China tomorrow if you wanted. Learning the language in other countries is fun to be honest, most women in other countries love to teach us foreigners their language.

I'm married :flabbynsick:
 

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Yes...I plan on leaving this country for good in the next five years...hopefully all goes well and it happens...There's a lot of places I want to check out, but as for a final destination, not sure yet....Perhaps Japan, or Switzerland....or the Netherlands....who knows.....

Why Switzerland breh? People I know who've lived there told me it's quite a closed society, extremely expensive and kind of boring. Haven't been there myself though so can't judge
 
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