There are many people, in many parts of the world, living life on their own terms. Away from The Man. Unhitched to a mortgage, career track, or any real obligations.
I’m not saying to uproot your life and move. If you have family, debt, and more—a corporate job will give you the stability you likely need to succeed. That doesn’t mean you can’t reconsider becoming an American expat down the road.
If you decide this is the life for you, here are six rules you should abide by to make the most of it.
1. Be Realistic With Yourself
To expect to make a million dollars within 6 months while working on a sandy beach in Vietnam is absurd. Be realistic with yourself, depending on where you are coming from.
If you have an established and respected online business, aim to double it’s revenue within one year of making it your full-time endeavor. If you have nothing and are going to live off savings, make it your goal to make your expenses within a year—to avoid dipping into those crucial savings.
2. Do A Little, Every Day
Abstract, long-term goals rarely get done. Saying you want to make $10 million dollars is too far out there, most cannot deal with that. That is a huge mountain to climb. Not to mention, no one ever writes how they will do it.
“GOAL: Make $1 million.”
Is it ever followed with a plan or a blueprint? Rarely.
But what about making ONE, SINGLE dollar? Far more realistic.
3. Learn To Live With The Haters
There are always going to be people who don’t approve of what you’re doing. Some of them think it’s bad that you like dating abroad versus marrying into the slut culture you’ve given domestically.
Other people think the finances of the expat are stupid. The only way to wealth is a 401k, a mortgage, and more, they say. While I think office work and 401ks have their places (people with families), to say that it is the only path to success is simply ludicrous.
People will project their own image upon you. Anything that is not their norm is not something that is acceptable to them. Haters will flood your personal life, online persona, and everything in between.
Ignore it all or be dragged into it. There is rarely an in-between.
4. Stop Thinking So Much
Roosh and I mentioned this several times in the podcast we did. Don’t think yourself to death over the trivial things..
- Healthcare — get some emergency care and pay cash elsewhere
- ATMs — get a Charles Schwab checking account (they don’t charge foreign withdrawal fees and reimburse you if the international bank charges them)
- Visas — do the paperwork, don’t break any laws, and you’ll be just fine
- Dating — come on, how much worse could it get than Stateside?
There are so many situations, ideas, and crazy things that stop people from setting out what they want to do. This isn’t just about travel or the nomad life.
Almost any situation where action is not taken can be derived to a root cause that is probably over-thought. Get out of your own head. Learn to funnel that over-thinking into action-based energy, and you’ll be be amazed at the things you can accomplish.
5. Let Things Come To You
You may learn on your travels that what you are able to do for two weeks is not possible for two months and into the future.
Even if you have past travel experience partying and going hard for weeks on end, this may not be sustainable to you over the true long term. It is one thing to go out and party hard for two weeks. In this case, you know you are returning to the corporate world, which is often drab and grey.
It lacks color and character.
Therefore, it is easy to “get it all out” during those two weeks of traveling. When you’re an expat, the overseas life is now your new, real life. Forever. To think that you can party every night of the week until the end of time is crazy.
When and how are you going to make money? When are you going to build friendships? When are you going to improve yourself in other aspects?
By all means, have your fun. You should, and need to. See the best nightclubs the world has to offer. Drink a bit too much, and have some nasty hangovers. Nurse them away by drinking more, if you so wish. Date lots and lots of girls.
But don’t think that it can go forever. Recognize the differences between the two. After all, if this is “forever”—you’ve “made it”.
6. Give Your Fellow Expats A Chance
Do not think that you do not need them. You need people who are in your actual new home country, who speak the same language fluently, and understand where you are coming from.
If you’re an American expat, don’t write off fellow Americans just because they are American. Do not think that they are the same people you wanted to escape from when you made the leap in the first place.
In fact, they are often just like you—in many ways. And they can relate to why you did what you did on a much better level than those aforementioned haters.
Yes, you need to also make local friends. People who know the language, have the right connections, and can give you an insight into the culture that you are now coming in to.
But don’t disqualify your fellow American expats as friends on the notion that they are American.
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Per head of population, no other country on Earth is going to see more expats than middle aged male Australians who have “made it” and want to get the hell out of their super expensive, overly feminist / SJW, and largely unattractive island continent for all the fun and sun of Southeast Asia at a fraction of the cost.
I met a fair few younger Aussies trying the digital nomad thang in Vietnam & Malaysia as well, and they were more than happy to leave much higher gross wages and a bit more security in Australia for their new locale. They just couldn’t bear the horrific dating environment, over the top regulations, grrrrl power feminazi landscape, and astronomical cost of housing and groceries etc.
Aye but the disgenics…
What’s a digital nomad?
People who make ASMR videos in exchange for patreon sponsorship?
Aggressive cupping, frenetic tapping, jolly rancher sucking sounds … all for the tingles
I give that a like because I like the devils advocate angle of your post.
But yeah, there’s more to it. Really. What are we really looking at here?
Ultimately it’s something like this (the way I see it, not fact): this is anti-civilization.
Yeah it’s nice to break away from the macro-level shit test of feminism.
Yeah it’s nice to have a shot at women who are a decade or two younger and are not hypersluts.
Yeah it’s nice to be around women who are not raised on high-fructose and covering their fat legs with tattoos.
But… on the income angle… what, exactly, and per your post, is being produced?
That’s the serious question here. You might have had some humor or trolling in your post. But you unearthed a serious angle.
What is being produced?
My personal standard: if it’s something that is permanently gone from the world the moment the EMP hits the mainframe or something that nobody will even remember when they are struggling to stay alive then it’s probably not worth a damned thing.
most jobs that aren’t digital nomad jobs are completely worthless as well. as far as i can see, the only jobs worth a damn are infrastructure, home building, and organic farming. the rest is BS IMHO.
I literally mirrored your exact sentiment in the article just posted on ROK about how copywriting is “red pill.” Good to see someone else has thought similar things. Cheers man.
I thought the term digital nomad referred to IT professionals who were location independent, doing things like copy writing or digital content production etc. My objection being I don’t see many people paying for content. Do people even read anymore? I doubt it. People got book contracts with major publication houses but I don’t think people really read much anymore. Same for magazines. I don’t think there’s much of a market anymore.
You guys would like a book i’m reading called Shrinking The Technosphere.
Scientists are hoping we accept nanotechnology into our brains and evolve into machine/thinking beings… but long before that happens, we’ll run out of energy sources and have to live off the land. Maybe in 100 years, maybe sooner. Elon musk is totally wrong about the future of solar power.
The major publishing houses in the west are 100% in the hands of feminists. Most of them are run by actual biological women, the rest by XY cross wires. They only publish what pushes their agenda. The future is in self publishing online. It won’t be as cushy as the past writer had it, you will have to do the editing yourself, but you will get a larger share of the proceeds on a smaller base. But if you are living on a beach in Vietnam, won’t those smaller amounts go a lot farther?
This is exactly what Australia is like! Don’t get me started on the regulations here. You can’t even breathe the wrong way in public anymore without being fined.
About that, I got fined three times in a row for doing 26 mph on a road with a new speed camera that I hadn’t noticed. That’s £300 and 9 points on my license lol (£100 and 3 points for each fine).
Yes it’s a road with a 20 mph speed limit but it’s so wide and long that you forget and start going a few miles over and then you get slapped with a fine. Sometimes I wish I could get out of London.
It isn’t any different here, either. We have 40kmh zones all over the place with road works in just about every single suburb area in multiple places within that suburb. A single 5 minute drive is either halted by a road that’s completely closed or restricted with a 40kmh speed limit. Then, even when there’s nobody working on the site for weeks on end, anybody doing as much as 42 is given a fine and demerit points on their licences.
The idioms of “speed kills” and “don’t break the law and you won’t get caught” are just token sayings by morons who are in the belief that their mighty government overlords and the bureaucratic mongrel arm of the police force are out to protect them and save them from the evil speed demons out there. Unfortunately, Sabby, it’s much the same in most capital cities now. A heavily policed prison camp all designed to impinge on basic human rights and meddle in your privacy.
Yep that is me! I have a European passport as well as my Aussie one, I cannot wait to get the hell out of Australia.
Not bad advice for men <30, but you will need to face the reality that you will have to actually work and plan on building an offshore retirement fund while paying the local cost of living on net wages.
I would also advise to learn the local language and adhere to local customs (you don’t have to like them). Pay your taxes and avoid getting entangled with law enforcement. You will have no problems and actually be the type of foreigner countries like to have around.
This is pretty much universal for all expats.
Many Millennials will be dying before they reach retirement age (50s or 60s).
Gen x will not see it either me thinks, but I admit I cannot see the future.
Whereas us Gen-Xrs will simply be broke from having to fund our parents ‘golden years’…..
I KNEW it – shit was stuck in my head before you even did it!
GenX is too small to pay not only for boomer pension and reirement plants, but also for boomer health care (much of it needed because these self-absorbed sloths also absorbed a lot of junk food).
That is, those GenXers who have families can still look forward to the huge chunks of monthly income paying for health insurance while boomers with a house, RV, boat, and SUV and maybe Harleys too will still be waddling around bragging about their “$20 copay” as they visit the doctor at least 3 times a month.
And even if every last GenXer revolted against this at the voting booth, they would still be outnumbered. We spent our entire lives being outnumbered and exclaiming “but this is suicide!” while the boomers just gave us “Obama smug face”.
This is why boomers don’t care about immigrants invading the country. “When this matters I’ll be gone” says the fat-faced piece of shit worthless boomer.
Millenials were intentionally programmed by boomer-run media and academia not to notice this, to instead virtue signal for everything the boomers liked back in .68, but on steroids.
It’s the GenZ kids that our hope lies upon. GenX needs to stay out of their way when the time comes.
the boomers are the “Fuk you Hooray for ME Generation”.
For the most part yes. But even lacking a fuck you mindset on that matter, they can be faulted for failing to see that their position in life was at the end of inheriting a very fragile system built on the hard working legacy of previous generations that only dreamed of having what the boomers were handed on a silver platter. They failed to see it, and then greedily squandered it. They took the cream off the top of the milk and then flipped the bucket.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/06/boomercide.html
How numerous are Gen Z? I was under the impression it was Gen X parents having Gen Z children (mostly). If Gen X was a small generational cohort, then Gen Z will also be small. Similarly, the Millennials are so numerous because for the most part, their parents were Boomers: a lot of Boomers yields a lot of Millennials.
Think of the term “force multiplier” and remember how few people were actually involved in the American revolution of 1776. “Numbers” only counts in democracy, but democracy is on the way out (and Boomer power was based on democracy).
Good luck with the GenZ kids. The West is the new late Roman Empire: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3e82a1f67cff62bf7b15005c8ad4b531e3cb7e8e92db84e148a47dee6672f858.jpg
See my map posted above…
Jesus. Every state in the Midwest is 20-40% minority Gen Z
Hitlery in 2020.
The Resistance strikes Back.
What “hope” do you think I was having, that they would “save the day”? Never.
Who was it that has forced diversity on us, clamored for “government to get along and do the (socialistic write more checks for me) work of the people”?
Boomers.
Who will sooner go (sending young people) to war to keep it all together so the gravy can keep flowing?
Boomers.
I’m thinking of divorce. Look at that map. Middle America is still Middle America. The cordycepted coasts are just as they have been for a long time. With boomers having a say it’ll be war to keep it all together (they are too old to fight it) while spewing Lincoln quotes and saying anybody against them is racist or something. With Gen Z, it’s different. They are not afraid to say that diversity is a failure.
When I say “hope” I’m not approaching it from the boomer perspective of “everything turning out fine so I can retire and get what I deserve”. I’m in GenX. Retirement is a dirty word to us. Expecting everything to work out OK in our favor against all reality is anathema. NOTHING has worked out in our favor. And that was after we listened to the boomers and did everything we were told, and got screwed over for it.
My hope is in the next generation not being retards like the boomers and taking steps necessary to actually face reality instead of kicking down to the next generation (like the boomers have) all for the purpose of… of what really? What would the boomers have had to give up to for their generation to “make it right” as the Phil Collins song goes? Watch less TV? Spend less time chasing the dollar so they can buy more toys? I don’t get it. You’d think they were all farmers during planting/harvest season or something the way they act and their “lack of time”.
A “divorce” will be better than Yugoslavia 2.0 and the latter is the only thing that’ll keep the checks coming for the boomers and they will clamor for it.
I support you. I actually come from a much worse situation in my European country. Take care and continue being wise.
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Well millenials are in fact starting to become parents. It’s rather skewed. Boomers are at least 52 years old so it’s likely very few of them having kids any more.
I don’t know many Gen X parents…. because well feminism, divorce rape (or fear of), women getting fat within 2 seconds of marrying them, etc. Those who did have kids managed one “before the divorce”.
There is a small minority of GenX who had multiple kids and like 4 or 5 and the practically make up for the ones who didn’t. And those are very conservative. Let’s face it, you have to be conservative to stay married and have more than one kid. And just about all of these kids I meet are more conservative than their parents.
Plus one more thing. It’s an odd thing, but late GenXers I find tend to steer clear of booze and drugs. Late boomers were the worst for substance abuse (these are the people who came of age in the 70s and were boogie woogie dancing to say the least). I have met a lot of fellows who won’t touch alcohol because they were so disgusted at their boomer parents who basically wrecked everything because of booze and drugs.
I have never had an original idea in my life and I’m starting to get funny thoughts in my head, like “hey, you are almost 50, if you want progeny, go hire a surrogate/concubine sort of thing”. Of course I’m not one to get such an idea and just go bounding off to do it, but many fellows are much bolder. We might see a late boom of GenX dads having kids out of wedlock.
(Already the feminists are screeching autistically about the concept of “egg banks” and surrogates, or actually using an artificial womb in a lab, calling it misogyny, but as usual thought sperm banks were the greatest thing since sliced bread).
country could be toast by the mid 2020s…gotta play that long game, politically right?
The south has always had a sizeable minority population since that is where most slaves went. and the southwest has always had a sizable latino population,
And not getting what is rightfully ours because our evil, wicked witch mothers with Alzheimers run the table on our inheritances…
OK, maybe I am making this a little more personal than it should be…
Or your greedy siblings steal it from you.
Have to admit, I have thought about that. And my sister does have POA over witchie-poo’s finances. But I dismiss that thought every time. Can’t believe she would do that to me. That would really freaking kill me. She wouldn’t do that….I hope…
MINORITIY? Think Tank morons can’t even spell…
If Hitler runs against Hilary in 2020, Hitler will win.
He would definitely have the gay and (failed) artistic communities vote. Hilary would clean up with the urban, crazy cat ladies though.
AWALT. The entitlement runs deep.
Ever talk to an executioner of a trust? You should. The family in-fighting can get real nasty.
This is from 1972. You don’t hear lyrics like these anymore:
“A year has passed it’s deadly course
Your friends and family sit with remorse
It’s time to read what’s left to them
Of all the wealth you couldn’t spend
Your lawyer’s filled with wit and greed
Begin at once your will to read
Sneaky smiles they cross their mouths
Happy people make their way
Through the world everyday
Sadden people they can’t seem to find
Their way across that rejected line
I’m pushed along by uncaring hordes
They’re always crawling moving towards
That pot of gold up in the sky
The one that seems to pass them by
If death should forestall my life
My worldly goods I leave my wife
She’s undeserving was just a private whore
Yet she never locked her bedroom door
In times of need she was always there
My tears my pain she’d always share”
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f24336b5db634a7a1b922d68c25998021945e90c7d35ac3eb31655fe5317923b.jpg
be glad you’re n ot saddled with paying HER way!
Good one.
haha describes my dads generatoin perfect… although he himself is a great republican, God fearing man… his liberal peers brought in feminism, free love, drug wave, and voted for open borders, bought cheap chinese products, fast food, etc.
Personally, I’d vote for Satan if Hitlery were the only other option.
OHHHHHHHH, she’s doing it or gonna do it alright. Money is the root of all that is evil. My sister is a small “m” millionaire and it is just never enough. People will fuck you over, kill you, kill others and destroy those they supposedly love for a few bucks. Two main reasons for murder? Greed and lust.
If “hope” were horses, we’d all be riders. Good luck!!
Really do “hope” you are wrong.
We have been getting along much better over the last few years.
But she does have 3 kids, so I can see a scenario where she may think she is justified. Why give the money to her crazy older brother, who will spend it on escorts & booze, when her kids need useless degrees from expensive colleges? And the first two are absolutely getting useless, and I mean USELESS degrees…
Yeah, well, that would NEVER happen.
I’d stick her in Bronx State mental hospital first.
I’m looking into glue factories….
The signs are on the road, but you are ignoring them. “Hope” you are not counting on that money.
Right you are Mr. Galt. Was that “executioner” a typo or deliberate – nice one! People kill their family members over money. Attorneys LOVE the in-fighting. It’s like a bad divorce = more fees. It is the grease that keeps the wheel moving.
Just remember, absolutely NO ONE fights over a penniless corpse.
Yeah, I know you are right.
But Jeez…she’s my sister…
I do have my own money — I am very small “m” myself, but 50% of the wicked witch’s $$$ could double that for me. If doubled, I could leave the states and never have to worry about working again. Would be nice…
and the people of the ” golden years ” generation are broke from funding your generations welfare.
OH NO!! Not the old “but she’s my sister” sniff, sniff, hanky please! You need to lose the “she’s my sister” bullshit and lose it quick. You’re gonna get screwed, I can see that, but your balls won’t get drained, they’ll be put in a vice. You won’t feel good after because you will be bent over and a wire brush shoved up your ass. OUCH!! The money you will be leaving on the table with be plenty. Let me know how this works out for you. Wish you the best…….
Thanks for that.
I needed a good hard smack in the face.
Glad to be of service.
For people my age and generation (23), it’s predicted that retirement age will increase to about 73 as the years go by.
Of course, I plan to retire by 50. Perhaps earlier even.
Adhere to local customs? Because immigrants to America make sure to learn English and learn our ways, right? Oh wait …
Cut off welfare. This isn’t that hard.
I’ve heard that argument but I don’t think that would make Arabs, Africans, or Central Americans go back home. Even without any handouts, living in America or Europe is a huge step up from their homes.
You mean the wheat seperated from the parasites who will have to assimilate? I still don’t see a problem.
Even without any welfare, migrants can engage in black market illicit activities and only face a slap on the wrist in Western countries while back in their countries, they would have a hand chopped off or be executed for the same offense.
The only way to not to have Arabs, Africans & Co. in the West is not letting them enter in the first place. Here is where the free market folks miss the point. There is more than economics in life.
“There is more than economics in life”
^^^ This ^^^
Western countries should enforce their laws then. Should they not?
Trump won for a reason PW, but you missed it.
then make them pay for a visa…lets see how we go then
It’s also a step down from their gabage dump huts in Mehico.
Woah… don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater!
There’s nothing economical about importing uneducated, skill-less manual labor. Any economist would tell you this breaks the system and lowers the wages for everybody. Plus studies show these immigrant workers send 80% of their earnings to their families across the border. It’s terrible for the local economy and anti-american! If those low income immigrant workers vanished, the business owners would be forced to pay decent wages to american citizens. It works fine along our northern border.
in Thailand I pay $1,000 USD for my visa and I have to check in with the immigration office every 3 months. on top of that I have to leave the country every year to renew the Visa. Something the USA should implement, me thinks.
Exactly right, Pabst. That’s why as a neomasculine expat, you would be playing the part of the bigger man. Effort is commendable, when the average world traveler is a cultural nebbish.
So say you’re living in a foreign country, as you claim to. Is there a limit on how long you can stay there? Can you even lose your US citizenship?
I have been living abroad for over 20 years. As long as you are not collecting welfare and gainfully employed, they tend to renew your green card longer without any issue as long as you maintain residence. I’ve been offered citizenship, but will not renounce, so they gave me a permanent green card (and love my tax contributions).
You cannot lose US citizenship, unless you voluntarily do so and even then it isn’t as simple as many believe. Extradition laws will ensure you cannot run from crimes committed or tax evasion.
shaking american citizenship is harder than shaking bed bugs
You will not renounce???
We need a name!
The place you live issues a green card that you have to renew? You pay taxes there, can own real estate?
someone oughta shake YOU
I have expats coming to me for advice and there is a price to be paid that few don’t realize.
Yes. You can own property, but cannot vote in national elections. Most of the property market in my area is being bought by Chinese who don’t even live here (read: chinks getting their wealth abroad).
Honest question. Assuming you have citizenship in a different country (Say India) then live permanent residence in another country (say Thailand), how will Thailand ever find out you have American citizenship?
In Mexico, you can own land, except by the border or by the ocean. By treaty, pension income is taxed only in the country where you receive it. Property taxes, yes, you gotta’ pay. And, all purchases have a 16% tax on them. We have around $200,000 worth of real estate and property taxes run under $200 USD a year. In foreigner places, like Ajijic, they put the screws to the foreigners.
As I stated, once you get Permanent Residence in Mexico, you never need to renew it.
I am married to a Mexican woman, also 75 years old. I got Family Unity Residency in Mexico, and now am a permanent resident. I can stay here as long as I live, or can come and go as often as I want. I do not have to visit the Immigration office, ever again, unless I lose my documents. I will eventually get Mexican citizenship, but that does not let you escape being a US citizen. There are few countries in the world who insist you cannot escape. I call it Stalinist America.
Because of Family Unity, they did not make me show income. Otherwise, you have to show considerable annual income to get those papers.
Let me clarify this. You can have Mexican citizenship and at the same time maintain US citizenship. The problem as I stated is getting rid of US citizenship.
Ha! you never hear of people emigrating TO Mexico!
Also if you do get rid of US citizenship, out of spite the US officials will typically prevent you from coming back to visit the US. US is the only nation (besides the shithole African dictatorship of Eritrea) that taxes income worldwide, so once you get free from the tax man they will punish you by stopping you from coming back to visit your friends or loved ones.
I live in a Third World village in rural Mexico. My wife’s uncles admit I have adapted very well. I teach free English classes to the poor kids. Two or three have actually learned to read English very well, amazing for one class of one hour a week.
I can say in all modesty that I am well respected by the locals.
Anonymous age 75
“If you have family, debt, and more—a corporate job will give you the stability you likely need to succeed.”
What is this obsession with squaring one’s affairs and paying off debt? The money lenders have you goy brainwashed real good it seems…
Pay your debts or dont borrow.
Oy vey!
OyGevalt!
hand rubbing intensifies
Retirement? Why save for what is guaranteed to be unpleasant at best and hellish at worst?
“Last scene of all… Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth,sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
they say your last birthday is very similar to your first!
Unless you die young
But…. but…. you HAVE TO retire at 65 even when you are still able to work and expect everybody to pay for it!
Have to agree here.
Best to die broke and owing as much as possible to the Infernal Revenue Service.
Why save it to be an 85 yo vegetable in depends undergarments?
You get a better grade of Depends and they are changed more often.
i cashed out my 401k 5 years ago…best thing i ever did
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Whoa, Well first off i don’t want to hang out with other black guys. They get angry when i say something negative about their girl. Almost to the point of being violent with me. So i stay away from a lot of black guys. I like staying by myself when in other countries. I have no problems. If i need questions answered i go to facebook groups or ask some random foreigner for his advice. but I stay away because americans or english speaking people still have animosity towards each other. If i get into a fight with a Thai’s we all know western people will blame me and say i must have deserved it. Definitely, not the kind of people i want to hang out with.
As for hate, forget the people you leave behind. The question is will your new neighbors hate your Yankee ass. My bit of advice is to blend in and assimilate into your new culture. Learn the language and the customs. And for Pete’s sake never say “Back in the US, we do this differently” (as in better). So don’t bitch when you have to “tip” some petty bureaucrat to get something done. Give him the 2 dollar bribe and smile while you do it.
“Back in the US, we do this differently”
This is one of the big problems we have with northerners moving down here. Complaining and always letting it be known it isn’t that way “back home”.
What is the biggest adjustment a Northerner need make when moving to your area?
Realizing that people do not welcome griping and bitching as a norm. A general acceptance of things being different, and an openness to such is admired.
Not admiring WT Sherman is a big help.
I’m surprised No. 6 isn’t ‘Give the locals a chance’. I’ve seen quite a few unhappy expats refuse to mingle with even English speaking locals while a social guy is having a whale of a time
You can always tell the guys and girls who’ll be checking out in a few months. They’re the guys who’re at “Larry’s” American bar twice a week.
“ATMs — get a Charles
Schwab checking account (they don’t charge foreign withdrawal fees and
reimburse you if the international bank charges them)”
Good info. Thanks. When I have traveled, I have let CITI and BOFA rip me off for $3 for each ATM withdrawal.
As much as I would like to totally renounce the US and move abroad, doing so will not allow me to defend my homeland when the day comes that we must take it back for our people against the invading African and Middle eastern hordes. I get that you want to be free, but sometimes there are things that you cannot ignore, and the destruction of my people and homelands is not something I want to watch from the sidelines on some island. We’re going to need all the men we can get when the time comes.
In the meantime, I am happily salvaging what is left and taking my share of the pussy pie, building my arsenal and my wealth so I can acquire everything I need for when it all starts.
I despise those that run away to live quietly without the responsibility of protecting their own way of life.
I am the one who has stayed in the neighborhood and repeatedly called the cops or personally run off the ghetto dwellers as they try and take over the neighborhood.
Others I see move to a “better” place. Pisses me off.
Read The Uncivil War by Taleeb Starkes….a black man writes the truth about ghetto mentality. https://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Confronting-Subculture-African-American-ebook/dp/B00BMHY5R4
I shall. Thank you.
I can’t totally blame the “white flight” that occurs, but you can’t have white flight everywhere because there will be no where left to go. Eventually, it becomes a matter of easily conceding territory to a hostile group of people who will destroy it after you leave. There has to come a time when the people who are being driven out take matters into their own hands (whatever measure that may be).
LOL I avoid all western white woman as an expat like they are a virus, I see one walking towards me I cross the road very fast, they have a very bad reputation.
I am 75 years old. I Live in the mountains of Mexico. I do have Medicare in the US. In 10 years, I used it exactly once. My best friend, the wife of a doctor, told me that anything I could survive, medical costs will be less than $5,000 USD. So, I do not have health insurance in Mexico. In the many years I have been here, I have saved many times that $5000, over the years by not paying for health insurance.
Last year, my wife fell off a ladder. X-rays and pain pills ran around $150 total in a good private hospital not far away.
A few months ago, my grandson in the USA twisted his leg in soccer. Three hours in the hospital produced a bill, whittled down by the insurance company, of $14,000.
Anonymous age 75 (I don’t know how to change my Disquis name.)
I would like to retire in Mexico, but I’ve been put off the idea by increasing violence. I’d love some advice, if you’re willing to share.